DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 December 1929, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

A NEW STADIUM. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Dec. 9. A company known as Dunedin Speedways Ltd., lias let a contract lor the construction ol a stadium to seat ten thousand people, to lie completed by February next. The contract is let to L. (L Martin of Christchurch, the work commencing to-morrow. The company will he linked up with those in other centres through the New Zealand Speedways Association. FATAL COLLISION. INVERCARGILL, Dec. 9. A collision between a motor cycle and taxi on Sunday night, resulted in the instantaneous death of Robert A ugh ton, thirty, and severe facial injuries to Susannah McConachie, twenty seven. Her younger sister, also pillion riding, escaped injury. It was raining at the time obscuring vision. Deceased was a single man, a partner in a firm of carriers, a well known representative Southland footballer and former captain of the Star Club. THE HUTT ELECTION. MR HOLLAND S HOPES. WESTPORT, December 9. Mr H. E. Holland this morning left for "Wellington to take part m the Hutt Bve-F.lection contest. He expressed himself confident that Labour would win the seat. A FATAL. ENDING, AUCKLAND, Dec. 9. Edwin Thomas Bird died in the hospital to-dav, from injuries caused when he was knocked down by a motor cyclist. Alexander Roberts, aged 18, on Thursday evening. MAGISTRATE’S COURT. GRiEYMOUTH, Dec. 9. H. Martin and James Somerville, miners of Dobson, were fined one pound each with costs for having matches in their possession whilst in the mine. George Featherstone, aged 18, was committed to the Borstal for two years for theft. He had a previous conviction. George Carlyle was fined one pound with costs for the theft of a cup and saucer from the Stillwater Railway refreshment rooms.