DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 August 1929, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

FEMALE ASSAULT CHARGE,

[By Telegraph, Per Press Association.]

PALMERSTON N., Aug. 26.

When Frederick George Paulsen was charged at the Magistrate’s Court with committing an aggravated assault on a female, the police asked for a. remand until Thursday. They opposed any . bail stating the woman assaulted was accused’s mother..

Counsel for accused made an application for hail, characterising the police action in this. respect as. extraordinary, whereupon Seriior-Sergt. Whitehouse said depositions , might have been taken., A remand was granted and bail allowed in sureties of £SOO. ■ '

SOCCER TOURNAMENT,

DUNEDIN, Aug. 26

The, South' Island primary schools soccer tourney commenced to-day, Westland, Canterbury, Southland ancl Otago'being represented in the bantam!/* grade. This morning’s results Rj.ere :': Westland 5, Canterbury 2, • Otago 4, (Southland. 0. v

AN IMPOSTER; ■’ ’WANGANUI,- August, 26. - The story of-an imposition upon two local medicos - was unfolded at the; Magistrate’s Court to-day when Frederick Emanuel Simmiss, with a number of aliases, 1 was charged with being & ■ rogue : and ’ a' vagabond) - representing -Ihat he had. sold : his 'up-riVer farm for £28,000. He put 'up at a leading local ■hbtel, where lie- spent money lavishly. Later he called on a doctor and com’plained of severe internal pains. He entered a private hospital, but the doctors finally came to the conclusion that there was nothing wrong with him. ■ w > , ‘

The accused) who pleaded guilty, (gave as his reason for his departure ifrom the institution, that he had been .insulted by the nursing staff. The Magistrate sentenced Simmiss to 12 mopths’ imprisonment.'

HIT BY MOTOR-CAR. ' CHRISTCHURCH, August 27. Patrick Minogue, aged 18, of Sumner, was knocked down by a motor car which did not stop last evening, and his leg was broken. He was found by a pedestrian some time later. v FIRE BUG AGAIN.

CHRISTCHURCH, August 27

, Incendiarists are believed to have been at work last evening when a mysterious fire occurred in East Christ-, church school, Gloucester Street. The fire was discovered before 1 it spread far and the damage done will be comparatively small, amounting-:- to ,£SO.

’QUAKE DAMAGE.

ENORMOUS COST OF REPAIRS WELLINGTON,- August 27.

August 31st is fixed, as the last day for lodging individual applications' with the Central Earthquake Committee. Meanwhile £2,000 is being spent .on restoring fireplaces and £5,000 on term porary tracks. - . i According-to Mr Black, M.P., it will take three hundred and fifty thousand to restore the roads. From Westport to Karamea will require one hundred and .twenty thousand? and the Buller Gorge a hundred Engineers-; are preparing a comprehensive estimate of the damage for the committee.

THROAT CUT. WELLINGTON-, August 26. A steerage, passenger on the Tahiti, who was found with his throat cut, named J. McGatt-y,,was on his way to Brisbane. ■

ROAD v. RAIL. TRANSPORT. . * WELLINGTON,. August ,27. . Thorndon branch- ofythe 5 A;S:R.S., after discussing road versus railway transport -adopted a stnteniept approy-. ing of Sir Jy/'Ward’s wfijtjiig'off capital borrowed?/for construction .-.from railway accounts; and to make interest oil such charge oh rt'lie consolidated fund. Road transport; had only to keep vehicles in order, and'pay a small sum, towards the construction and upkeep of roads. A greater ,part of this was falling on. the community, •including/ raijb; -way men. They desire to impress on the Premier that the present transport methods are. wasteful and iinecbupmic and urge, that without delay, a nation--al--system of transport he, inaugurated and the Railway Department organisation and’- machinery, unified; control of transport system in this country should be vested in the railways." NEW. ZEALAND' INSTITUTE OF

SURVEYORS. —A— " , > . CHRISTCHURCH, August 28

Surveyors from all over New Zealand gathered in the Chamber of Commerce this morning to attend the .annual meeting of tho New Zealand Institute of Surveyors. 'Mr Preston Chambers, of Auckland, presided. They were welcomed (by the /Mayor. Mr Preston Chambers was re-elect-ed president of the new Council, and Messrs O. Smith, A. H. Bogle, and M. H. Miller were elected to the committee. , / . . TOWN PLANNING ACT. CHRISTCHURCH, • August 27. Important changes in the Town Planning Act will be brought before Parliament this year, the chief being a new regional planning scheme, and