DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 July 1929, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

A BURGLARY

<% Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

IIAWERA, July 1. A most brazen robbery, involving the removal of a safe weighing six hundred weight, was perpetrated on Saturday night or early on Sunday morning, ihe aJI a ii;'. occurred at the Bacon Factory oi Messrs T. H. Walker and Sons liL d., 'iawhiti Road, and owing to the size and weight of the sale, at least lour men and a motor lorry must have been engaged. The front door was forced, the burglars at once going into tbe oilice, where the manager’s desk was ransacked, and books were gone through but no money was found. The safe was then removed without the floor being marked. Inside there were seven pounds and the more important ol the firm’s books and records'; . <.

Before they leljt, the burglars helped themselves to a fill of benzine from the firm’s petrol pump. -V

BOXERS RETURN. 'WELLINGTON, Jiily 2, Griffiths, McDonald, and Connors arrived by the Maraina from Australia. Leckie has remained behind. It is pos Able he may meet Sarron. A E,EM AND . WELLINGTON, July. 2. Robert Gardner, 28, of Dunedin, was remanded for a week for police inquiries to-day, when he pleaded guilty to the theft of £3O from a friend at an hotel here, after making tlie acquaintance on a ferry boat. The police stated they ibelieved Gardner intended to leave his wife and go to Australia with a single woman. TOMATO GROWERS ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE. I J WELLINGTON, July 2. The annual, conference of the Dominion Growers of Tomatoes and Soft | Fruits Association commenced to-day, Mr C. E. Pope presiding. There were seventy delegates from the two Islands. Tlie chief question of discussion was the registration of tomato growers, delegates unanimously favouring registration, but the question of a tax sliding scale and the position of those outside the Association, who ■would be taxed equally with the members, if legislation were passed and other difficulties prevented a decision being arrived at. Hon. H. Atmore, Minister of Industries and Research, was present and heard the views of the delegates and promised to be present when the matter forms 'tlie subject of a deputation to the Agricultural Minister*. Tlie delegates gave instances of heavy rating under unimproved values in areas near towais, and Mr Atmore forecasted relief under differential rating.

PUBLICATION OF. DIVIDENDS,

A CHURCH ATTITUDE. v f,

DUNEDIN, July; 2“

“ We are very disappointed with the attitude taken up by. the newspapers on subjects affecting the church’s view-, point,” stated Rev. J. D. Smithji'at the Presbytery meeting to-day, •when tile Public Questions Committee report was presented, opposing the request of a racing deputation for a permit fqr telegraphing investments and'' publishing dividends.. Rev. Smith added the newspapers were putting moral questions on one side and were only concerned with more dividends. Some of the church’s business men , should try to get some interest in publications to support the church’s principles.

FRAUDULENT CHARGES.

CASE ADJOURNED,

CHRISTCHURCH, July 2,

Twelve charges of fraudulently obtaining money by means of valueless cheques involving £95, were preferred against (James William AYebber, aged 22, a labourer, in the Magistrate’s Court. AA’ebber waS also charged that on May 18th at Auckland he broke the terms of his release upon probation. Accused pleaded guilty on all counts, and elected to be dealt with summarily. Tne Chief Detective said accused had joined up with another man, who was caught in New Plymouth, but there was a third man at large, who was really the brains of the combination. Magistrate Levvy: I think I would like you to make a few inquiries into accused’s record and see if he was a dupe.

•The case was adjourned till Thursday.