DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 October 1928, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

PRISONERS SENTENCED

(By Telegraph—Press Association).

DUNEDIN, Oct. 29

Prisoners sentenced Clarence Wilfred Dudley, 39, married, to eighteen •months reformative for indecently assaulting a young girl. Charles Campbell and Edward George Luding and Ronald Francis Montgomery, breaking arid entering by night with intent, were ordered to pay costs of. the prosecution and take out prohibtion orders and come up for sentence if called on within twelve months.

In the case against Bertie Williams who pleaded guilty in the lower Court of indecently assaulting a male, counsel asked that the plea be reversed to not guilty under the Mental Defectives Act. The application was granted and accused will now go for trial.

MOTOR CYCLES COLLIDE. NEW -PLYMOUTH, Oct. 29

By a collision between two motor cycles at 2 a.m., fiye miles, out of New Plymouth on the junction road, iEdward Cyrus King and John Jenkins received severe head injuries, Stanley Olson received a fractured leg and arm, Mona Seabright, a fractured nose. All are in the hospital. The victims are unfit yet to give an account of the accident. ,

HYDRO-ELECTRIC WORKS

HUGE FUTURE PROFITS

AUCKLAND, Oct.' 28.

Touching on hydro-electric development at a meeting at Brown’s Bay yesterday, Mr Coates said be had had figures taken out and had had them checked and re-checlted by experts, and he was convinced that by 1940 New Zealand would have a surplus of £B,000,000 a .year over interest and sinking funds from its electrical undertakings provided the standard rates now being charged were maintained.He believed' that as soon as the Arapuni scheme was completed the demand for power so great that additional generating units would be required, and the product from these units would be clear profit.

ROUGH HANDLING

BIG LOSS OF BRANDY

AUCKLAND, Oct. 28.

Breakages were heavy in a consignment of brandy examined by Customs officers on the Central Wharf, at least £SO worth of spirits having Leon lost. Thirty cases were inspected, and they yielded over seventy broken bottles, including fifty-six quarts and a number of flasks. The consignment was from ; France, and was landed in Auckland from the Maheno after several transhipments. Rough handling apparently caused the damage. The breakages were probably not recent, as the ease were dry and every drop of spirit had evaporated. •< \ .

MILLS PLANE. GISBORNE, Oct. 29

Douglass MiM with his Moth plane arrived, yesterday from Napier, en rohte to Auckland.

Mill hopped off for . Auckland at noon.

COMMERCIAL

A DIVIDEND

DUNEDIN, Oct. 29

The directors of the Now Zealand Paper Mills at a meeting to-day, authorised the payment of an interim dividend at the rate of three per cent.

YOUNG MAN FOUND GASSED

WELLINGTON, Oct. 29.

Charles Henry Jones, single, aged 23, was found dead at Mayfair Flats, lying close to a gas main, from which the cap had been removed,.

* WORKER KILLED

DUNEDIN, Oct. 28. 0

David McNeil, married, aged 55, residing at Fairfield, was killed by a fall of sand at Shiels sand pits this afternoon. It appears that deceased was standing in one of the sand bins when a fall of sand from one of the hoppers used for feeding the trucks buried him. He was suffocated before the fall could be removed.