DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 June 1929, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

GIRL THIEF. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, June 27. Described by Chief-Detective Lopdell as a daring and nerveless girl, who seemed to have started in Wellington u trade known sis ‘-hotel harboring,” Mvrene Edlin, aged 18, appeared to-day on a charge of stealing si gramophone, articles of clothing and money. .She was stated to he uncontrollable. : Shu admitted going to eight oi: ten hotels, in Wellington, and going through every room, sometimes in daytime and sometimes at night. >Sbe had got the gramophone by paying a deposit. She was leaving for Lyttelton when arrested. She was sentenced to three years’ detention in. the Borstal Institute. PROMINENT -MAN’S DEATH. CHRISTCHURCH, June 29. Obituary.—E. G. Seed, aged 38, a memlier of the Canterbury Rugby Union and the Commercial Travellers’ Club. .He was the first man 111 Christchurch to enlist with the Main Body. SOUTH ISLAND MOTOR UNION. CONFERENCE RESOLUTION, , CHRISTCHURCH, June 29. The South Island Motor Union resolutioned that the conference, views with apprehension the suggestion that roads destroyed or damaged by earthquakes should he replaced exclusively out of the (funds of the Highways Board. The Conference considers that reparations should be paid for out of the Consolidated Fund with n reasonable contribution from the highways funds. ■>