DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 September 1928, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) NO SUMMER TIME THIS YEAR. WELLINGTON, September 13. An- announcement of his intention not to proceed with his Local Summer Time Bill was made by Mr Sidoy .iu ail interview yesterday, Ho doos not intend to go tq tho longth of having the hill removed from tho order paper of tho House of Representatives, but lie has decided in view of tho latest developments lie caiinot ask the Government to, provide nti opportunity for bringing tho measure before tho House again.

FOUND SHOT. GORE, Sept. 13. ' Alex Coutts, aged 27, was found shot last night at Gore, with a gun alongside. He now lies in a serious condition in the hospital. Coutts lost his wife eighteen months ago under tragic circumstances in a fire at Wainiate.

JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL. CAMBRIDGE, September 13. The District High School Committee passed a resolution expressing the opinion that tho school should bo reorganised to provide for the transfer of children at the ago of eleven to twelve years to a . secondary Institution. The Committee resolved to request the Education Board to make representations to tho Education “Department to carry out the proposals as from tho beginning of the year. Suggestions arc made for providing accommodation, if carried into effect. This will give junior high school advantages to Cambridge.

BAIL ESTREATED. HASTINGS, September 13. At the Magistrate’s Court before AG Mosley, S.M., three men, Laurence MeCrandall, Edward Weeks, and Edward James Honey, who were out on hail on charges of being idle and disorderly; failed to appear when their names were called. Mrs McConnell (licensee of Albert Hotel) went hail to the extent of £SO each and this was ordered to be estreated. A FATALITY. ROTORUA, Sept. 13. The death occurred at the hospital of Harry Pifipi, at ono time a noted footballer and athlete, employed by tlie Public Works Department, as the result of tho overturning of a lorry on Tengoo'road on September 10th.

GOVERNMENT SURVEY. AUCKLAND, Sept. 13. T. K. Thompson, formerly of the New Zealand Lands and Survey Department, and now retired on superannuation, in a statement published says, when ho was making a Government survey in the vicinity of Ca]st> Maria, lie took the opportunity of chocking .the charting of the Three Kings by triangulation. Working from a base line formed bj' two trigs, 25 miles apart, lie made the extraordinary discovery, that the Kings were four miles out of position and four miles nearer the coast than tl(e Admiralty chart which showed them to be on a fringe line of sea lane, where, it was very difficult to pick up the land fall,in thick weather. This states Thompson, was known when the El in garni to was wrecked, but was not disclosed Lit the inquiry. Surveys made some years later by a warship and iby the Terra • Nova, when returning from, the Antarctic expedition, confirmed his discovery of 1894.

A SEQUEL. DUNEDIN, September 13. As a sequel to the ratepayers’ refusal, to ratify a loan Of £2(3,000 for the purchase of the Royal Arcade, which, though privately owned, has been a pedestrian thoroughfare foi more than thirty years, the Arcade Company aiionuiiccs its intention to erect harriers, leaving any person to take legal action who thinks he has thoroughfare rights.

PLAINTIFF NON-SUITED.

GREY’MOUTH, Sept. lb. Tlie Supreme Court yesterday was occupied hearing a, case in which Mary Elizabeth Agatha Pugh, widow of Amos Henry Pugh, a sawmiller who was accidentally killed on October 19th. last, claimed £IOOO from' the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation, as being due under a life assurance policy of her husband.

Plaintiff’s case was that Pugh entrusted matters in connection with his life assurance to Rundle and Co., tho Company’s agents, and that his account was sufficiently in credit to have allowed payment therefrom of the annuali premium amounting to £ls 10s. The defence maintained that the premium had not been paid and that the policy had lapsed. It was stated that Rundle and Co. had neglected the assurance business and had failed to make the required monthly returns to the Corporation. This morning Judge Adams dismissed the claim on a non-suit point, declaring the evidence given by Rundle and Saunders (clerk) was open to the gravest suspicion. It appeared the premium was never paid by Pugb and that Rundle and Co. ante-dated the receipt and issued it after Pugh’s death. “J acquit plaintiff and her advisers of any complicity in this gross iraud, which if it bad been successful, would have polluted tho loiintaiii of justice, concluded His Honour.

THE LICENSING BILL. WELLINGTON, Sept. 13. The Associated Clubs of New Zealand conferred to-day and rosolutionod, strongly protesting against the removal of tho middle issue, supporting sixty per cent, majority, urging an amendment of Clause 37 of the Bill, and resenting the intrusion' of the New Zealand Alliance into matters affecting the private affairs of their established institutions. Opposition to the moderate provisions of Clause 37 are being described as an act of absolute intolor-

AERO INSTRUCTOR. BLENHEIM, Sept. 13. The Marlborough Aero Club has appointed Captain N. K. Chandler of Blenheim, as its pilot and instructor at a salary of £SOO. Chandler had an extensive war experience as a pilot and has since kept up flying as a member of the Air Force Reserve.

DEATH FROM INJURIES. PALMERSTON N„ Sept. 13. Claude Mitchell. 10, who was severely injured when his car collided with a goods train, near Hu.itcrville, the other (lav, was brought to Palmerston to undergo an operation. He failed to recover and died last night.