DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1929, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

[By Telegraph, Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, September 20. The Panmure Post Office, which was earned on in another store under different management, was also burned down a year agp. Last niglit, the Postmaster saved the letters 4 for delivery, but outward letter? posted in the building were destroyed. SAFETY PRECAUTIONS. WELLINGTON, September 20. The Fire Board 'decided to take steps to induce the City Council to pass a by-law making compulsory the installation of ji sprinkler or otter effective fim protection, in bulidings above a •ertain size.

SIR A. RUSSELL. ■ I MOTORS INTO A HORSE. HASTINGS, September 20. Sir Andrew Russell, while driving home in a car from Havelock North last evening ran into a straying horse. The car went over the bank, but Sir A. Russell was only slightly receiving a c-ut.on the face.

POSTAL THEFT CHARGES. NEW PLYMOUTH, Sept. 20. Win. Percival Leonard Knight pleaded not guilty in the Police Court today, to eight charges of theft of postal packets in New Plymouth and one charge of attempted theft from a post box and one charge of attempted breaking and entering at ;Waitara. He was committed for trial at the Supreme Court. Bail was allowed. HALT IN RECRUITINGFOR .N.Z. WARSHIPS. AUCKLAND, Sept. 20. Commodore Blake, the new Commodore of the,New Zealand Naval Division announced yesterday that there would be a temporary halt in the recruiting for the Navy in New Zealand. This is owing to impending extensive refittings of the cruisers Diomede and Dunedin. The Diomede leaves for England on October Ist. and she will not be back for about twelve months. Then the Dunedin will go home.

TIPSY MOTORIST. WEBLINGTON, Sept. 20. “It is unfortunate to suspend the license of a man who depends to some* extent on driving a car for his livelihood' ,but car drivers know what to expect if they are found in a state of intoxication while driving their vehicles, and they should take precautions not to have liquor when about to drive.” With these remarks, Mr E. Page, S.M. to-day fined a motorist £2O and suspended his driver’s license for six months, for being drunk while in charge of a car. Mr A. J. Mazengarb, ,who appeared for the accused, said that he had been out of work for some time, and had got a position as a salesman permanently. To hold his position it was necessary for the accused to drive a car. ANOTHER CASE. MASTERTON, Sept. 20. On a charge of being intoxicated while in charge of a motor lorry in High Street on July 4th. Samuel Lunn Lewis, a carpenter, was fined £2O in tthe Magisrate’s Court to-day before Mr J. Miller, S.M. The charge arose out of a collision with another lorry. Lewis also agreed to take out a prohibition order, and, on that condition, the Magistrate said he would not cancel the accused's driving license in view of his physical disability. Accused was given six weeks in which to pay the fine.

ARBITRATOR REMOVED. NAPIER, September 19. Mr Justice Macgregor gave reserved judgment in a case in the Supreme C«urt in -which the Napier City Council appeared in support of a summons for the removal of Mr J. J. Lancaster, electrical engineer, of Wellington, as the Hawke’s Bay Fewer Board’s nominee as arbitrator in respect of a bulk supply agreement between the Board and the Council. His Honour heid tltet since Mr Lancaster had been in the employ off the Hawke’s Bay Power Board, he could not be expected to approach the matter without a slight, though unintended, bias in favour of his former employers. Accordingly he ordered bis removal.

A GRANT. WELLINGTON, Sept. 19. A grant of £IOOO from the Government towards the cost of a Cbmmission to investigate the scheme of a tunnel road between Lyttelton and Christchurch so that direct access should be given to the Lyttelton wharves, was promised this morning by the Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward) to a large deputation from the Christchurch Port and City League. MAORI HORSEMAN INJURED, rp AWAMUTU, iSept. 19. A Maori named Kepa, aged about 45, was thrown from a horse last evening at Puahue, fracturing his left shoulder blade through the horse rolling upon him. As Kepa was only semi-conscious this morning, a doctor ordered his removal to the Waikato Hospital.