DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 May 1929, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

BIG NEWSPAPER COMPANY

MERGER. RESOLUTION CONFIRMED.

(By Telegraph—Press Association)

CHRISTCHURCH, May 18

The resolution arrived at by a meeting of shareholders in the Lyttelton Times Company, Ltd., on April 2G, •agreeing to the proposal to amalgamate with the Brett Publishing Company, Ltd., Auckland, was duly confirmed at a meeting of the Lyttelton Times Company’s shareholders, which was held in Christchurch yesterday. _, The new company; will he, known as New 'Zealand Newspapers, Ltd., and will have a nominal capital of £1,000,000, of which £582,5C0 will lie allotted to the existing companies—£477,500 to the Brett Publishing Company, Ltd., and £105,000 to the Lyttelton Times Company, Ltd. The Auckland company publishes the “Auckland Star.” ‘

A NEW THEORY.

ROAD WORKER’S DEATH

AUCKLAND, May 17

The' now theory has been advanced that Samuel McAleese, who was found shot through the heart on a lonely roadside on Piinamoa Hill, Bay of Plenty, on Thursday week, was not liuirdei'od, but knocked down, by a passing inotor car.’ ‘The face wounds are consistent’ with the theory and exhaustive tests carried out prove that the rifle would he likely to explode prematurely more easily with'the barrel detached from the stock, in which condition' Ac A loose was evidently Carrying it in a sugar bag when knocked day. The recovered bullet doubtless came from M'cA'Jeese’s rifle. The motorists," it is alleged, carried McAleese to tlie roadside and callously abandoned the body.