DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 May 1929, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

CIiKISTCHURCTI COUNCIL. By Telegraph—Press Assn., Copyright. CHRISTCHURCH, May 7. For the City Council, A. C. Armstrong (I lulopendent Labour) was declared elected to-day. The state of the parties is now: Citizens 5, Labour 4. Hunter (Labour) jumped from 2Gth. place to fiGeeiuh, alter the distribution of votes of the eliminated candidates. TWO THIEVES. WELLINGTON, May 7. Described by a chief detective as members of the criminal class, with a rather bad previous history, Manuel Valvoi, 20, a clerk, and Oswald Harris aged 25, labourer, to-day pleaded guilty to stealing wearing apparel and five bangles valued at £3, the property of some person or persons unknown. and four greenstone pendants valued at £3 3s Gd, the property of Percy Denton. it was stated the men came from Auckland on May 3rd., and since have been sleeping out, and shoplifting during the day. They have not been long out of gaol. Each got six limnilis on each charge, to be cumulative. ' INTOXICATED DEI VER. AUCKLAND, May 7. A one-ton truck, conveying a party from a dance at Orekai Avenue to the city, collided with a. telephone pole carrying 'about twenty near Purewa Cemetery at 1.50 o’clock this; morning. John Harvey Blong, aged 21, driver of the lorry was charged at the Police Court with being intoxicated while driving. He was fined £lO or one month’s imprisonment. His license was cancelled for twelve months. The defence was that the mishap was caused by a tyre blowing out. It was stated by Sub-Inspector McCarthy that Blong and his companions had a consderable quantity of beer at the danwi, and were all more or less drunk. Blong, nevertheless, asserted he was sober and was supported in his statement by two companions. Liquor at these country dances should be stopped, remarked Mr Hunt S.M.