DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 June 1929, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS.

TOO COARSE ? GERMAN WAR BOOK BANNED. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, June 21. Remarque’s great war no*el, “All Quiet on the Western Front,” which was recently the subject of editorial review in the “Lyttelton Times,” has been banned from the Auckland Public Library. Few hooks have been more inquired for in recent years by subscribers, . but the library authorities hold that the coaseness in certain expressions and subjects preclude it listing for general .circulation. General Sir lan. Hamilton, speaking at the Gallipoli Day dinner in London, said that “All Quiet on tlio "Western Front” had definitely killed the idea of war as an adventure. “The author deserves a Nobel peace prize ton years in succession,” he said. “Sometimes the story is revolting in the course of its simplicity, but it carried the stamp of truth in every line.” ANOTHER, MISHAP. SEVERAL WAGGONS DERAILED. WELLINGTON, June 21? At 4.17 p.m. to-day a mixed goods train had several waggons derailed when it was passing near the same place between Paekakariki and Pukerua Bay at which the derailment of the New Plymouth express occurred on Thursday, and again blocked the line for traffic. There were only two or three passengers on the train, none of whom was injured. Transhipment arrangements were made for the derailed and subsequent trains, and the up Limited express was dispatched via the Wiararapa from Lambton station at 8.27 p.m. The causes of the derailment had not been ascertained to-night, but it was thought that it was possibly due to looser material from the hillside falling as the train was passing, as the engine was not derailed. Owing to the delays the racehorses of the trainer Webster, of Otaki, missed the connexion with the Malieno foi Sydney.

BREACH OF PROMISE. WOMAN AWARDED £375. HAMILTON, June 21. An interesting breach of promise suit was heard before Mr Justice Herdman in the Supreme Court this morning, when Jane Sutherland, aged fiftysix, a divorcee, with eight children, sued John Mawhinncy, aged fiftyeight; a painter, for £IOOO. The evidence showed that the parties had lived together for seven years. Mawhinnoy built a £2OOO house and took Mrs Sutherland to live.there. In 1925 Mrs Sutherland obtained a divorce, having been long separted from her husband. Jn 1927 Mawhinney made a trip to Ireland and married another woman there. Kxam ined by Mr Justice Herd man, the defendant admitted that lie had promised before Mrs Sutherland’s divorce that he would marry tier. The Judge, in reviewing the evidence, found that there had been a definite promise of marriage and awarded £375 damages. unauthorised programme. CHRISTCHURCH, June 22. Fred Gaskell, who was fined recently for publishing an unauthorised sports programme, appeared before Mr E. C. Lcvvey, in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, on a second similar charge. The publication has been registero' 1 as a newspaper the “Sportsman,” but the [Magistrate ruled that it was still a programme. Gaskell was fined £0 and costs, a sum sufficient to enable an appeal to be lodged.