DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 June 1929, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

LEAGUE OF NATIONS. (By Telegraph—Press Association). WANGANUI, June 14. The League of Nations Coniference concluded to-day. Dr J. Gibb was elected President. Wellington was selected as the location for the Dominion Executive for the ensuing year. An invitation was extended to hold the next conference at Tiinani. LAND RETURNS. WELLINGTON, June 14. Th rce landowners, named Gorringe, Perrett, and Sandhi lit, were proceeded against- to-day for Hailing to furnish returns of land for the year ended -'larch 31st. 192!). It was stated for the Department, that the cases were a warning to others of their obligations. Perrett, who had not made a return since 1920, was fined £lO. Gorringe was similarly dealt with. Sand font was a small owner, prosecuted mainly to let small owners know they had their obligations to fulfil. He was fined £2. There was no suggestion that defendants had attempted evasion. SHOR{T OF COAL. AUCKLAND, June 14. From Galveston, Texas, bound to Australia, the steamer Yoseric reports by wireless she is short of coal and will arrive at Auckland on Sunday night to bunker. TWO YEARS FOR BIGAMY. AUCKLAND, June 14. William Miney, chief stoker of the war sloop Veronica, who pleaded guilty yesterday to bigamy was *o-da.v sentenced to Judge Kennedy to two years’ imprisonment. THEFT OF MATLS. DUNEDIN, June 14. On Wednesday morning a postman’s overflow bag was stolen from the neighbourhood of Columba College, Roslvn, and rifled, the contents being found in a stream in Kaikorai Valley. Yesterday morning another bag was stoleii from the railway station and similarly mal-treated in a public convenience. • In each case the officials are busy piecing together the correspondence and forwarding it to the destination. The police have arrested a man suspected of committing the offences.