DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 March 1928, Page 1

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph —Per Press Association FIXED f2J. AUCKLAXD. March 5. n - At the Police Court Richard Tlion as Jamieson. 22, was fined £2r, or tli alternative of two months gaol IV; ,K ‘ assault on Constable Vial, who wliil in plain clothes interfered with Jt- number of men fighting in the streei 'ft Accused punched Vial in the eye am ' ,s lip. The constable chased accuse; u ‘ and caught him. i.v FALSE STATEMENT. n * AVAXG ANUI, March 5. John Owen Crowther pleaded guilt; 'P at the Court to-day to three charge ‘-‘-i of obtaining an instalment in ai 10 economic pension bv means of a false a statement that he had not been ii ; i' employment for a month. The police '• stated that during the period pension; had been drawn accused earned Cot 1 in wages. The Registrar said the cast ® was brought as a warning to others, 1 The Alagistrate said it was impos--0 sible to take a light view of the mnt--8 ter. Tt was a clear case, persisted in ■I for over three months. Accused was 2 sent need to fourteen days on each ft charge, to be concurrent. p V NEW POLITICAL PARTV. (3 WELLINGTON. March 3. 2 A prominent member of the Reform - Parly organisation to-day denied the j reported statement hy one of the spon--3 sore of the United New Zealand Politii cal Party that all the members of the Reform Party’s executive in the Wai(omo electorate bad I brown in their ; J lot with the new movement, lie also I | says that the Country Party in the i j Waikato district make the statement i openly that they have no working agreement with the United Party. application refused. w. WELLINGTON, March 3. Air Justice M’Gregor refused an application by the Te TCniti Amateur Operatic Society for the suspension of the interim injunction restraining them from giving a performance of “The Mikado” on Monday. ENGINEER KILLED. DUNEDIN, March 4. •Tames Montgomery Brown, aged 32 I years, of 133 Harbour terrace, chief electrician at the Pelicbet Bay Cement Works, was killed at the works at l.ld p.m. to-day through being drawn by a belt on to the wheel that drives the rotary kiln. His skull wtis fractured and death was instantaneous. An inquest for identification purposes will lie opened at bis bouse to-morrow. SICK MAN MTSSTNO. CHRISTCHURCH. March J. Francis Woodham aged 52. of Papauni. has been missing from His borne .since Saturday morning. He left borne early for a walk, and was seen in the city about 11.30, but since tin'll, there lias boon no trace of him. lie had been in bad health, suffering from insomnia, for aland four months. I/A HOUR COUNCIL’S DECISION CHRISTCHURCH. March 5. The City Council to-night carried a resolution, on the- motion of Councillor W. .1. Roberts (Labour) "that the Re. serves Committee arrange for the removal of guns from the City Reserves.” * The motion was carried by 10 votes to 6. tbo Mayor (Air Archer) voting

with the minority against the Labour Majority. The guns are all trophies of the Great War. situated mostly in Victoria Square in the centre of the City. SUMMER TIME. f ’ WELLINGTON, March 5. 1 That the country districts are pracL “ tically. solid against Daylight Saving 1 and never want to see it again made ■ applicable to rural interests, is the | view expressed on behalf of the dairy industry by the Managing Editor of the ‘N.Z. Dairy Exporter,’’ on the strength of a rural vote taken on the question. This vote shows 09,0 per cent, of the votes recorded (about 24,000) to be against a repetition of | Daylight Saving. A MAGISTRATE'S WARNING GISBORNE, March d. At the Court to-day, Magistrate Levvev issued a serious warning to motor cyclists who ride without mufflers. A youth bet ore the Court was fined £2 but Mr LeWey commented that ho wouldn’t issue more warnings in future and-where it had been shown that a rider had made a noise deliberately or shown gross carelessness he would indict the maximum fine of £2O without hesitation. ALL BLACKS’ CAPTAIN RUMOUR. WELLINGTON, March 5. I here is nothing in the statement going the rounds that M. Brownlie has been appointed captain of the All Blacks and Lucas vice-captain. A statement by Air Doan was made to-day to the effect that the matter has not yet been discussed by the Now Zealand Rughv Union Management Committee, nor will it be discussed until all the medical reports on the selected players are to hand. MOTOR OAR SPEED RECORD. INVERCARGILL, March 5. What is said to he an Australasian motor speed record was established on Oreti Reach to-day, when C. AV. Hamilton (Fail-lie) drove a Sunbeam car over a straight mile in 33 seconds, a sliced of 10!) miles an hour.