DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 May 1929, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

THEFT SENTENCE

By Telegraph—Press Assn., Copyright,

GISBORNE, May G.

Oliver George Howie, aged 32, was committed for sentence on two charges ot theft of sums totalling £l5O, the property of the East Coast Acclimatisation Society, jtlie secretaryship of which lie resigned in December last.

CITY COUNCIL POSITION.

CHRISTCHURCH, May 6

TheXiiy Council position at noon showed-eight candidates were elected, live Citizens and three Labour. Andrews, Beanland, Bcavcn, Fiesher and Lyons, of the Citizens, and Sullivan, Airs McCombs and Cooke. Cooke was elected on the seventh count. A SERIOUS ACCIDENT. AVAIPUKURAU, May 6. A serious accident befol a young farmer, Jack Symes, yesterday afternoon when returning from duck shooting on Hatuina Lake. Symes and a companion, James Simmonds, were in tho act of stepping out of a boat when Simmonds knocked tlie gun , causing it to explode. Symes received the full charge in the right arm and wrist. The victim-; was conveyed to tho AVaipukurau Hospital and on arrival it was found necessary to amputate the arm below;the elbow. His condition this morning was .Satisfactory - Lvt INJURED AT FOOTBALL AVHANGAREI, May 6. AYhen playing League football at Hikuraiigi on Saturday, Louis Ball sustained a fracture of • the temple hone and base of tho skull as the* result of a collision with the bent knee of another player. Trepanning was performed successfully at the hospital, but his condition is still dangerous. BIT BY HORSE. CHEEK T'ORN AMAYA AVHANGAREI, May 6. AY lien working on K. C- j Woodcock's farm at Maungakaramea cm Saturday, Victor Clarke was bitten by a lirp'sc. portion of the left eyebrow •Jud check 'being .torn away... The hospital to-day reports that Clarke’s eyesight is being saved. MASSEY COLLEGE. PALMERSTON N., May 6. It was reported at a meeting of Massey College Council that -tenders are to lie called in two or three weeks for the erection of .the main block of buildings at Massey ’College, comprising lecture rooms, laboratories and other facilities. FOOTBALLER INJURED. CHRISTCHURCH, May 6. As a .result of an accident. while footballing, H. Simmonds, 21 j lies in the . hospital in a sejrious condition, suffering from concussion. .»■ THEFT OF CAR. * CHRISTCHURCH, May G. Thirty days hard labour was imposed on Gordon Murray Lee, eighteen, a salesman, who was charged in the Magistrate’s Court- with unlawfully converting a car to his own use. The owner was in church when the offence was committed. .: CAR ACCIDENT. GISBORNE, May G. A young man, Stacey A 7 on Pein, is in the hospital in a serious condition with a fractured skull, the result of a car in which ho was a passenger capsizing in a ditch yesterday afternoon. Four other occupants of the oar were uninjured. ‘ MAORI POSES AS WOMAN. AUCKLAND, May 6. Nikora Hune Haora, a Maori,' aged' 26, was convicted and ordered to come up -for sentence when called for, falsely represnting • himself as a female. Accused who had masqueraded as a housemaid for three months in a Takapuna household family that comprised husband, wife, 17-year-old son and three young daughters, came out of the room in the court usually reserved for female prisoners and was dressed in a fashionable green crepe-de-cbino frock, nigger brown coat, .black cloche bat, grey silk stockings and patent leather high-heeled shoes. Magistrate Hunt, after Haora had pleaded guilty, said: li he’s a M 1:U1 10 had better take off his hat for a start. (Laughter.) PRISON EH S S ENTENCED. DUNEDIN, May 0. Prisoners sentenced —George Spiers, breaking, entering, and receiving stolen wheat, admitted to probation for four years, conditional on taking.out a prohibition order and paying costs. Anthony Cabral, jointly charged with Spiers of breaking and entering, sentenced to six months’ fffl°L