DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 March 1928, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association. CHARGED WITH THEFT. AUCKLAND, March 20. When artillerymen were in camp at Xgaruawahia, one of the trainees was found to he missing from parade, so a warrant was issued for his arrest. Two hours later the absent one was arrested hv miltary police on a charge : of stealing forty-nine .ISO:! caliorc cartridges, two blankets, and a puggaree belonging to the Defence Department. Harold John Brown was the trainee’s name, and being handed over to the civil police, he appeared on a summons at the Police Court this morning, on the charge. Brown stated that lie was supplied with ammunition while on picket duty and that he found the blankets in his tent and took charge of them. Tie had not tried to take, them away. However, the sergeant-major pointed out that iL was an artillery camp and that no ball cartidge was issued to anyone. Accused had been found with 1 the gear in his kit bag. A line of .22 was imposed. MILLINER ROBBED. WELLINGTON, March 20, Patrick Joseph O’Connor, alias Ryan, alias Murphy, labourer, 02, pleaded guilty before .Mr Page at the Magistrate’s Court to-day to receiving ladies’ coats and bats valued at C2l Bis, knowing them to lie dishonestly obtained. The charge arose out of a burglary at a local milliners in February, .1027, .Accused, who bad a long list of previous convictions! was sentenced to !2 ■■ Mouths’ imprisonment. SEVERELY BURNED. DUNEDIN, March 21. Thomas Dawson, aged 11, married, employed as a spring maker at Hillside railway workshops was severely burned about the lace and body through a spring falling into ihe boiling silt and splashing, lie was liospilallcd. STEALING. WELLINGTON, March 21. Two charges of stealing registered letters, one containing Lo 10s in £1 notes, and the other a money-order for 7s lid, were admitted by a clerk named Robert Patrick Crawford, aged 20, before- Mr Page, S.M., to-day .Accused was a cadet in the Immigration Department for two years before the commission ot the offences. A remittance was expected by an immigrant <to whom money bad been advanced) but it did not come to band, and when inquiries were, made it was ascertained that accused bad signed lor a letter containing- the money. A money-order also was due, but did not arrive. Accused said lie could not account ten the disappearance of the money, but since bis arrest be had made restitution of L‘4 11s lOd. lie was committed to the Supremo Court for sentence. PETROL MEASURE SHORT. CHRISTCHURCH, March 21. The lirst prosecution here against a bowser owner who gave short measure was heard by Mr l.awry. S.M. .lames George Andrews, of Ferry Road, was lined C 7 on a charge of having an incorrect measuring instrument and I'A for selling petrol short of the quantity S demanded. An olfirer of the Lahonr Department said as a result o! complaints. a test was made. Defendant \v;is iiskt’d to supply four gallons, and it was found to ho two and a-half pints I short. I TENDERS TOO HIGH. : WELLINGTON, March UL The Minister of Public Works (the lion K. S. Williams) announced that the Government has decided that thePublic Works Department shall carry out the piercing and construction ot two tunnels, one three-quarters oi mile long and the other about two and ;l -hall' miles in ennnocrion with tno Tawa Flat railway deviation. I All lenders have been declined on. account of being much in excess id the Deoart.nent’s estimate. The Mimster ' says the Government is confident that.* the work can be carried out at a P'ue much below the lowest tender The tunnels will carry a double h»o 4 of rails and the estimated cost ol the j deviation is £07)0,01)0. , POPULATION STATISTICS. AUCKLAND’IN THE LEAD. WELLINGTON', March 10. _ In .dviiig the vital statistics for the: month of February, the populations of ■ the suburban areas are stated ... the: I •* Gazette ” as follows : | .Oakland ~ 7/; Wellington JSV’VmO Dunedin 11 7 ,,1,0U 17,,000 uwr, ! Hastings New Plymouth 7 \Z' ' ‘M> Si»» \\ ;ilignum “ ‘ Palmerston . North ••• . II .08.) ;7 ls,m 17.820 v.j oa-,-,0 Invercargill . Total I MOTOR VICTIM. 1 ROTORUA. March 21. ! Andrew Connor, the victim of the c motor accident at. Putaritru. .hot hmt - night at the King George Hosp.tn - The other patient, Edward Heekt. m '. , still unconscious, and considered most V critical. _____