DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 June 1929, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

R.S.A. INTENTIONS. (By Telegraph—Press Association). PALMERSTON N., June 12. The annual meeting of the Patriotic Society- endorsed the proposal of the R.S.A. to establish suitable homes where ex-servicemen suffering from war disabilities could be maintained and provided with- light occupations. Jt was stated the R.S.A. sought to establish one home in each island. BODY UNIDENTIFIED. PALMERSTON N., June 12. The inquest on the body of the unknown man found on the bank of the Manawatu river, following the recent flood, was held this morning. The evidence of the police ifniled to trace tile identity of deceased. The Coroner in returning a verdict df found drowned, said the body was well dressed, and it seemed extraordinary that deceased had not been missed, as lie was not a human derelict. A FIREMAN GAOLED. WELLINGTON, June 12. Frank McCumiskey, a fireman on the Corinthic, was to-day cbnvicted of attempted conversion of a motor-ear and resisting the police, and got a mon£i on eacli charge, to be concurrent,"wiui an order to be placed aboard when the steamer left New Zealand. His companion, who was with McCumiskey when attempts were made to start the car and the police were summoned, got away while a constable was securing McCumiskey. MOTOR CYCLE THEFT. WELLINGTON, June 12. Hugh Smith, aged 18, a clerk who stole a motor-cycle and side car, later tipping the side car over Miramar wharf into the water, was to-day committed for sentence, to the Supreme Court. The outfit belonged to William Henry Davies, who valued it at £IBO. 1 ASSAULT CHARGE AUCKLAND, June 12. Arthur Collins (aged 26), a labourer, was remanded on £4OO bail (forthcoining in two sureties) on a charge of assaulting a young woman on March 9th on her way home from a Remuera dance, so 'as to cause actual bodily harm. A QUICK TRIP. WELLINGTON, June 12. • The Maori made the trip from Lyttelton in nine and a-half hours at an average speed of 19 knots. This is not a record, hut is exceptionally quick time. She get to the wharf just as the clock was striking twelve. The record is 8 hours 45 minutes, established on 3rd December, 1924, by the Waliine, an average ctf 21 knots.

COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. DUNEDIN, June 12. At a sitting! of the Naseby court Frederick Antiur Lloyd, late 'clerk to the Manitoto; County Council, was committed for trial on charges of fraudulently omitting to account for sums totalling £419 received by him between the years 1924-1929. COURT CASES. TIMARU, June 12. At the Magistrate’s Court, a youth, Ernest Wade, 19, pleaded guilty to a savage attack on a young woman whom lit hit with an iron pipe and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. 1 On a charge of false pretences Hugh Robert 'Flack was sentenced to two months imprisonment.