DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 April 1928, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association WAR MKAiORIAL. Gis BOR A K. April 20. Two thousand people unlive and Kuropcan. assembled at Tararoa. UnCape district, yesterda.v for the uni oiling of a war memoriai. The .Maori . bad prepared a great P.-w-i tor the or

easion. A welcome vn- cxi.-ndcd t lion. K. S. Williams. Sii A. T. Ngrt; led Ibe party chiefs in singing a Maoi lament for soldiers who failed to e turn their linpas. lion. Williams, :e

plying. sjioke in .Maori, to the great delight of the natives, and proceeded to unveil the memorial, a granite obelisk, erected by the joint efforts of the .Maoris and pakelias in- memory of the dead ol both races. The (iciiu ai»>n was preceded by a procession including 2i')() returned men.

An impressive Auzne Day service was held at the war memorial. Gisborne, there being a large muster of returned men. territorials and public.

RKCKI.IAR KIRK. NAIMKR. April 2li. Under peculiar 'circumstances. a block of live buildings in the centre of Tnradnlc. live mile.- from Napier, was totally destroyed by lire early tltimorning. The buildings were occupied by T. Crittebley. n baker by trade: (L Line's hardware stole; AI. •I. Carrie, a tailor by oeeupat ion; and AL-s .)elfaires, dressmaker. Crutch!",v says his hou.-e was broken into tlm nig!.l previous, when the key of the hukchollso was stolen. Last night he heard intruders below, but received no am-wer to hi- challenge. The lire broke out in the bakehouse shortly alter. There was no lire in the bakehouse since Tuesday morning. All the occupants escaped in their night attire. The absence of water prevented the Napier firemen irom a-.-i-ling. 'I he in-urn ins’- are uiitmiu n. OBITUARY. AUCKLAND. April L’ti. Obituary. aged A 3, director of Robertson and I’ol-on. Ltd. KI.KCTORAL. ( IIRISTCII! RCII. April 2b. .1. K. Coop, a well know n farmer is -aid ;o be a I i k.ely ra.miid.it t the Retorm interests lot 1..\ i n It.m -eai ai mx i elect ion age i :-t .L Al'( mib-. j

INnl'i-N't Yl'illHK I. \U( KI.AND. ApriT —i». At ibe la-toes, 'on Mrs Lena Eliza Lmdsa;. . 1 1 hi ml dead at her bou.-e. Bel - niont. with a gas tube near her head, the ( nr,mm Mumi a v.-rdiet of - ttii ide by ga- poi .oiling. 'I'IIKKT ( II VECE AI ( KL ANIL April 2d. At the I’olieo Court I let her! Krcilcrick Thomas Gunilmau was lonuniiii-d for sentence lor tliett ol 20b9. the propertv ol Tamaki Road Board. lie was admitted to bat! on two securities ol 2AO each. His assistant. Roy Herbert l‘ laser Arrol, was also committed for sentence lor stealing 2239 from the Board between November 3(ltli and March 31st.