DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 May 1929, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

(By Telegraph—Press Association)

A ROWDY MEETING,

AUCKLAND, Slay 7

Remarkable scenes were witnessed in the Town Hall Concert Chamber List evening when over 10C0 peopie .cere addressed on civic affairs by Messrs J. R. Lundon and TV. H. Murray, members of the Auckland City Council. The climax came when Mr J. A. C. Allum, who recently resigned his position as chairman of the Transport Board, on failing to secure re-election to the City Council, and whose policy was being severely criticised, entered the haft and walked to the platform. He was faced by an audience which had lost nearly all semblance of control, and although a. few cheered, the rest were exceedingly hostile. Mr Allum was allowed to speak' between outbreaks of jeering, and the meeting was brought to a sudden close at--11.15 by the extinguishing of the lights in the hall. OBLIGATIONS OF JURYMEN. IMPORTANT PUBLIC DUTY. CHRISTCHURCH, May 8. “You ''must' recollect that you are called to perform a very important public duty and that the machinery of justice would fail if the citizens were riot prepared to do the utmost in • their power to lend assistance if called upon,” said Mr Justice Adams in addressing eight jurymen who applied for exemption from jury service at the Supreme Court yesterday. Three of the applicants were granted exemption, one was given exemption for Wednesday only, and the other four were refused exemption. WELLINGTON JURORS FINED. WELLINGTON, May 7. At the Supreme Court to-day, one Juryman was fined £5 and another £2 for failing to appear.

WELLINGTON TRAGEDY. WELLINGTON, May 8. Shortly after two o’clock this morning Detective Kearney found Jack Stevens, middle-aged, unconscious in a gutter apparently suffering from some injury. He died in the hospital at three (o’clock without, regaining consciousness. A post mortem has been ordered. SURVEYOR’S LAPSE. (WELLINGTON, May 8. John Edward Thomas O’Sullivan, 27, a surveyor, arrested in Sydney and brought back, to-day pleaded guilty to five charges of forging Post Office Savings Bank Withdrawal receipts, of a total of £IOB 15s. He was committed for sentence. YOUTH KILLED IN A PIT. DANNEVIRKE, May 8. Vernon Mathieson, aged 18, while engaged in a metal pit on the farm of .his father, Mr Christian Waiter Mathieson, at Otawhao, was buried by a fall of metal. He was extricated an hour lateir, but was dead. GOLF BALL KILLS BOV. WATROA, May 8. A fourteen-vear-old boy, Valentine Green, was killed late this afternoon by a golf ball driven by a lady who was practising on the golf links at Tuai. /