DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 November 1927, Page 4

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

THEFT CHARGES

XELSOX, Xov. 12,

\ incent James Prequer engaged in an indent business, was charged at the Magistrate’s Court on two counts arising out of the sum of four hundred failing to account for £250 and theft of £4of) by wrongfully converting it to his own use. On the application of the police a remand was granted to 30th November. The police asked for substantial bail, stating further charges involving a considerable .sum of money were pending. Jiail was fixed at two sureties of £2OO. On counsel’s request one surety of £!i3o in addition to self of £3OO.

TT-lEI'T CHARGES. IIAWERA. Xov. 12. Thomas Henry Herbert iSinelair pleaded not guilty at Opunake Court and was committed for trial oil twenty-three charges of theft totalling £l7O. The alleged offences spread over a. term of three and a half years and related to moneys received by accused as honorary secretary of Opunake Cottage Hospital. According to creditors evidence, the amounts had been refunded since inquiries commenced, excepting £-10. RETURNED SOLD!ERAS DEATH. HAAYE'RA, Xov. 12. Peter Alc-Dougall, a returned soldier. with no relatives in the Dominion died in an ambulance yesterday oil the way to llawera hospital. Deceased resided lately at Elthain where be fell down an hotel stairs some days ago fracturing a rib which penetrated .the lung. An inquest was opened and adjourned. £2OOO AX ACRE, lucre gumfield discovery. AUCKLAND, Xov. 11. The discovery of a new kauri gumlield, from which the yield per acre will, according to experts, be as great as that, from any goldmine, is reported from Ahipara. Hill. The Lands Department recently opened an area of land at Ahipara Hill for the purpose of providing work for unemployed men. The land was let to gumdiggers in three-acre lots, and Air P. Sulenta says that land in adjoining sections to he balloted for will yield guilt to the value of £100!) per halt acre. “That,” said Air Sulenta. “will boat any goldfield in Australia or Xew Zealand.”

The trouble about the place is that there is difficulty in getting an adequate water supply, and another difficulty is that there is no properly-de-fined road or formed road to it. and diggers have to cross some XativC property when taking machinery on the field, ft is the custom for the Xatives to levy a toll of varying amounts, and sums ot £lO. L'ln, and up to £2O have been collected troni diggers who have been taking gumwashing machinery on to the field. The Government, draws a royalty ol 10 per cent on all gum won, and from the yield it will In' .seen that this! means a considerable revenue for the State.

The Kaitaia Chamber nf Commerce passed m resolul ion that- the Minister fur hands 1 ■ asked t:> make urrango!i;rnts with the Public \\ ;n'l;s Department to have a read const muted to the held, and also to arrange for a supply ol' water. LABOT'IIM'R SURPRISED. “WIGGIXG” AXD TTIEX C 5. WKId.TXGTON', Xov. 11. A story which is both unusual and true is going the rounds among builders and contractors in "Wellington at t.h» present time. A box used for hoisting bricks and other material to the upper lloors of a building in course of construction in the city v.as descending to the level of the ! street when a well-known woman t walked out from the footpath apparently unconscious of the danger which threatened her from above. A labouror istn.nding nearby saw that she would be seriously'injured if prompt measures were not. taken, and he immediately pulled her back to safely, just as the heavy box reached the street. To his surprise, the woman, instead > of being grateful, literally gave him • “tho rounds of the kitchen” for . .“handling her so roughly.” The . labourer was taken aback, and the , | woman walked off. i I Some days later the same woman I approached the foreman of the job and enquired for the workman who I had. as she put it, “saved her life.” 1“I thought about it when I got home,” she said, “and J came to the conclusion that had he not acted so promptly I would have been killed. Will you see that he gets this?” “This” was a Co note. RIDDIFORD CUP, ! WOX BY XEI.SOX COLF/iCGE. NELSOX, Xov. 11. The Xelson College cadets have again won the Riddiford Clip, which is award- ; oil to the best secondary school cadet unit in the Dominion. The competition | was inaugurated in 1922 and Xelson ’ College has won it five times out of i six. The examining hoard was Dieu-I tenant-Colonel Symon, Captains Con- 1 way and Davis, from General Head- J quarters. Colonel Symon, in an inter-1 view, spoke in the highest terms of I tho exhibition. He desired to con-1 gratulnte the acting-principal, Mr J. G. -M’Kay, and the staff generally, but | particularly the hoys, whose work all round was of the highest standard and their spirit of the very keenest. Their efficiency bore the mark of high traditions extending over a long period of years. BANK OF XEW ZKAH.VXD. DIYTcDEXDS DECLARED. WELLTXGTOX, Xov. 11. The Bank of Xow Zealand has declared tho following dividends, payable on December 3:—• Ordinary—ls -Id per share. A profs (held by Crown) —£50,000. B profs (held by Crown) —£106,006 13s 4d. C long-term mortgage shares (held by Crown) —6 per cent to September 30, 1027. D long-term mortgage shares, to i September 30—71- per cent. j

aged woman succumbs. CHRISTCHURCH. Nov. 12. Mary Anne Murphy, aged 72, died in hospital on Friday night, five days after her admission, suffering from severe burns on the face and hands, the result of a fire at her home. Her husband, Patrick Murphy, and son, Leo Murphy, were also severely burned. At the inquest to-day, Sergt. M. Hodgkins said there was no evidence ns to how the fire started, but it had originated in a mom where "deceased and others were sitting. There was no fire fn the grate. The inquest was adjourned,

A LABOUR. YIEAV. AVELLrXOTOX. Xov. 12. Mr ,T. F. Kirby, the father of industrial advocates of Australia, with 3(3 years in industrial work, and now in Xew Zealand, to attend a Conference of X T .Z. stage employees in connection with their dispute, considers that Xew Zealand is far fn advance of Australia in industrial matters. The conciliation system, in his opinion. could not be improved upon. He had been endeavouring to get the Commonwealth Attorney-General to adopt the X.Z. system. He thought Xew Zealand would lie very unwise to appoint a now assessor for each separate dispute. Ho considered the Australian State .Industrial lavs should lie wiped out. and the Federal Government control all industries. A BEAUTIFUL" AIEM.ORIAL. XEAY PLYMOUTH. Xov. 12. The cross of sacrifice, a. beautilul memorial to the soldiers of the town who fell in the Great AVer, presented l,v Air and Airs C. H. Burgess, was unveiled in the Te Henui Cemetery by General A'oung. in the presence of a large gathering.