DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 April 1929, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

WANTON DESTR UC'ITON

AMATEUR BURGLARS

(By Teleg.aph—Per Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, April 26. ' With several features in keeping with the best “moviola ml” style, a destructive raid was carried out some time between Wednesday evening and this morning at the engineering factory of Booth, Macdonald and Co., Ltd., at Penrose. When the staff returned to work to-day after the Anznc holiday the main office and the office of the manager, Mr E. S. Hall, presented a sorry spectacle. The floors were strowen with letters, plans and others office papers. The windows were smashed,, telephones, time clocks and metal patterns were broken, and 1 general disorder prevailed. Footprints in many parts of the works were suggestive of a youthful escapade. Entrance to the main building was gained through a lavatory window. This had been smashed with an axe. It is understood that a small amount of cash was removed from a private drawer in the manager’s room, but this evidently did not satify the intruders, and so they made plans to get into the main office. Not by bursting the locked doors did they proceed, hut by the far more picturesque method of climbing fixtures in an adjoining room to a height of about 20ft, crawling over the top of a partition, making fast a rope, and sliding down sailor fashion to the office. A more or less clumsy attempt on the big safe did not result in the extraction of any valuables all of the sections being well locked.

1 'PUREBRED CATTLE

TASMANIA’S DULL SUBSIDES

PALMERSTON NORTH. April 23. An interesting subsidy of the Tasmanian Government was spoken of by Mr Ji. It. Walsh as Surveyor-General ture in Tasmania, who is at present in Palmerston North. The 'iasmanian Government subsidises £1 for £l. the purchase of purebred bulls, said Mr Word, and only bulls out of cows of high production were allowed in under tlie scheme. Good animals could lie secured from 6 guineas for hull calves up to £2O for yearlings. On an animal of this type the farmer would receive £lO. but he could, of couse. purlieu,se a more valuable animal if he wore prepared to pay the difference. “That is our method of eliminating the scrub hull,” said .Mr Ward, “and it is working very satisfactory. Previous tfo its adopt tion the purebred breeder could not sell their stock at all. Calves were knocked on the head.”

XEWPAPER .MERGER

AUCKLAND, April 26

Resolutions,,in favour of the amalgamation of the,. “Auckland Star” with the “Lyttelton Times” and Christchurch totar” were passed at an extraordinarymeeting of .shareholders of the Brett Printing . and Publishing Company, publishers of the “Auckland Star,” to-day. A further meeting of shareholders will he held to confirm the resolution.

CHRISTCHURCH, April 27

At an extraordinary meeting of shareholders in the Lyttelton Times Company Ltd. yesterday, proposals for amalgamation with the Brett Publishing Coy., Auckland, were agreed to. A meeting to confirm the resolution arrived at yesterday will he held a fortnight, hence.

TRAMS COLLIDE

CHRISTCHURCH, April 27

A crash resounded through the still night air of Manchester street at 11.46 last night when two station-hound trams came into violent collision opposite the Kaiapoi Woollen Company’s bui 1 "n Uv the merest chance both ecu,’ .■ ier n> •> motorman of the rear li-":i escaped with scratches, but the cabs c.f both ears were badlv smashed.

Two cis v o"o proceeding to the st■::■■ : v v’mi the front one stopped suddenly, the one behind humping it slightly. 'The motorolau on a third tram, following close behind, had no chance to see what was going on. Flo applied his brakes without avail, and then came the'crash. Ho stayed where lie was to receive the fill I ioree of the splintered glass and then jumped clear. 'The conductor of the second tram was in tin l rear cab. He saw wliat was coming and jumped. Tbc two cabs were practically telescoped, while the glass in the front of the second tram was broken.

An inspector was aboard one of the trains at the time, and as soon as the two ears were palled apart the whole of the front cab of the third fell to the ground. The tramwaymen then had to ,>et to work to pick up the pieces.

WOMAN IN Sl'l* V

NMW BIHHUTOX THAI BODY

(TIRTSTCHT IiCH, April ‘2B

Tlie holly of Annie Victoria Smith, aged GO, unmarried. residing at llawke Street. New Brighton. was found floating in the surl at New Brighton on Saturday morning. The body was fully clothed and deceased had been in the water only a short time. The deceased left her home on Saturday morning with the expressed intention of going to tlie city. She was found dead in the water an hour and a half later. An inquest was opened and adjourned.