DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 July 1929, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

ALLEGED ABSCONDERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association). WELLINGTON, July 6. Further details were given in the Magistrate’s Court this morning in connection with the charge against Josef Pelisk and Josef Crawcow, two Polish Jews, of having absconded, from Australia with a view to avoiding the payment of their debts under the Federal Bankruptcy Act. Chief Detective Lopdell produced a cablegram from the Melbourne Police Department stating that the debts totalled £ISOO of more, and that 'the circumstances Attending the departure of Peliks and. Crawcow from Australia and their general conduct indicated systematic fraud. _ It was suggested that hail should be refused. The Magistrate (Mr E. Page) said that tlie accused were arrested as fugitive offenders, and it would appear that they would have to be sent back to Australia under escort. On the facts at present, he was not prepared to admit them to bail.

RATING AMENDMENT.' FARM LANDS OR BOROUGHS. WELLINGTON, July 6. Replying this week to a deputation representing the tomato-growers, seeking relief in regard to the rating of a their lands in boroughs, Hon. Mr de la Perelle referred to the Commission dealing with the rating of lands in boroughs, and said that the Government intended to introduce legislation. He thought that very great relief would be given, and he hoped that the Bill would he brought down early in the session.

CHILD KILLED. IN EPILEPTIC FIT. TAIHAPE, July 6. A hov named Norman Irwin, aged six, was found dead in a paddock this morning. He was the son of Mrs Irwin. of Bennett’s Siding, whose husband was killed in a blasting accident recently. The hoy was subject to epileptic fits, and be fell on a sharp stick, which entered his left temple, and severed an artery. A medical certificate of death was given and there will be no inquest.-

COLLISION VICTIM. ■ CHRISTCHURCH, July 7. After making satisfactory progress from injuries received in accident at Sockburn on June 30, when five people were injured in a ... collision between a motor u’cycle outfit and a gig, Heniy Bright, aged 52 years, of Washbourne Road, Sockburn, died at, -the Christchurch' Hospital o)i

SI INFANT’S BONES. •IN WAIMATE YARD.; , WATMATE, July 6. ;‘An-inquest on the hones of an infant child found, ip a backyard in Waimate, was opened to-day, and was -adjourned till Friday.

AT THE MARKETING END. AUCKLAND, July 6. As a consequence of the establishment of Empire Dairies, Ltd., for the marketing of dairy produce from all Empire countries in Britain, the directors of the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy'Coy. Ltd., and of the Amalgamated Dairies, Ltd., after conferring with Mr W. Grounds, late Chairman of the Dairy Produce Control Board, have decided to-form a Dairy Council to consist of the Chairman of all of the cornpan:, s nit; sting their produce for sale io the care o f ? Amalgamated Dairies Ltd. This Council will meet annually, or at any tone in the case of a crisis. In rf 1 " 1 ’’ : n to considering market problems; it '.'. ill nominate three Directors of the Board of Amalgamated Dairies, Ltd., two representing the North Island dairy factories, and one the South Island factories.

man lost OVERBOARD. AUCKLAND, July 8. A wireless from the lofua, due from Fiji this afternoon, states a second class passenger, Holst, was lost overboard on Friday at 4 p.m. The steamer retraced her course till dark, unsuccessfully.