DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1929, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

THEFT OF FRUIT.

[By Telegraph, Per Press Association.]

HAMLTON, August 27

Though he had £321 in the Savings Bank, George Henry Field, aged twenty-five, a hawker, entered , the shop of a local Chinese, filled a sack and his pockets with fruit, and ran away when the proprietor appeared. A detective pursued and arrested Field, who was fined £lO this morning, in default one month’s imprisonment. DEMAND FOR PENSIONS. WELLINGTON, August 2S. The South African War veterans here passed a resolution affirming the principle of a pension to all South African veterans l>y right of service, and suggestinqg representations be made to the Government to, place them on the same footing as the Maori War veterans for pension phiposes. A DIVIDEND. DUNEDIN, August 28. At a meeting of the Board of Directors of Messrs Kcmpthorne, Prosser and Co., New'Zealand Drug Coy., Ltd:, held this : ;’af ter noon an interim dividend of 4£ per cent for. tho • halfyear ended 31st^. July, was declared. * ENEMY OF GORSE. WHANGAREI, Aug. 28. Recently Charles Baker, of Wood hill, Whangarei," discovered a grub which effectively kills gorse. Further specimens were found .at Mairtown suburb. These were subjected to, and given to the science master at Whangarei High School, who forwarded the. specimens and some of , the dead gorse to the Cawthron Institute. The grub is borer like in action, commencing at tV roots and working through the seams. Cawthron has' acknowledged receipt of the specimens, and says it is carrying out experiments, the outcome of which may have Dominion importance. SHEEP-FARMERS’ CONFERENCE WELLINGTON, Aug. 28. The k<»a came into prominence at the Sheepfarmers’ Conference * when the bird was described as a real menace. In lake-country along;’'I’it 1 ’ it Was stated 8000 had been killed and paid in the last 10 years ' ' .Mr Jessep (Hawke’s,® Bay) said the protests against the lifting' of the suT>sdy should be supported. To listen to sentimental trash was nonsense. A clause in the report dealing, with the matter was adopted. \ The question of advertising woollen wear is creating-aSfohg discussion, tlig view being' thkefi siat -manufacturers should help. .TbeSfamount of - advertisement artifioial-asilk is receiving in the Dominion is being stressed. It also proved the value:of--,the advertisement in any sort of goods'. 4 li

CAR FATALITY

A MAN-KILLED,

DANXEVTRKE, August 29

Another fatality occurred near Dannevirke last evening when a ear wen! over Gibbs Hill 'near Mangatera. It was driven by James Scott Smith, a motor salesman of , Napier, and with him was C. if. Peak,, an assistant in the. Government Audit Office. Tho car was on its way to Napier. Nearing the top of the hill it commenced to shimmer and before the driver could regain control it leapt over the bank, a drop of about twenty feet. Peak was killed instantly, dislocating his neck. His companion escaped with a few abrasions.

DEATH FROM POISON. / U Civil AND, August 29.

Gertrude Taylor. 40, wife of T. B. Taylor, an ’ 'vkland pastrycook, died in from poison taken in mistake for medicine. Two bottles were together on a shelf and it is picsumed Mrs Taylor took a dose from the wrong bottle in error.