DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 October 1928, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

CHIEF JUSTICE.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, October 29. The Chief Justice, Sir C. P. Skerretfc, has made such satisfactory recovery that he was able to leave the private hospital for his home at Lorry Bay on Saturday. A period of rest and quiet is prescribed by his medical advisers.

FOUND DEAD. AUCKLAND, Oct. 29. The body of Eddie / Campbell, ■ a Maori, was found, on a farm at Penrose, with the throat cut and an open razor alongside the dead man’s head. He was a widower,. 56, employed by the Public Works Department on railway construction works at St. Holier,s Bay.

A PROTEST. GISBORNE, Oct. 29,

Gisborne Harbour Board passed a resolution thoroughly objecting to Wellington Harbour Board’s attempt to interfere in the present flat rate of freight charged upon piwluc© from New Zealand ports and expressing the opinion that the proposal is not', in the interests of producers and the dominion generally. The motion was earned unanimously one member characterising the Wellington proposal as impudent.

DRUNKEN DRIVER. PALMERSTON NORTH, Oct. 29

Frederick Wm. Dart of Kairanga, a farmer was fined' £lO at the 1 Magistrate's Court this morning, and his lie/ ense endorsed,'for being drunk 1 while in charge of a motor lorry.