DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 February 1930, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

FINED £SO.

(Bv Telegraph—Press Association).

AUCKLAND, Feb. 21

Anthony Petrie was fined £SO and costs Icy .Mr .McKean, S.M.. for failing to make returns of land tax. It was stated that defendant, who had been a considerable land owner 'silicic 1925, had put the Department to a lot of trouble searching land deeds before an assessment could be •made.

A DULTER ATEP WHISK Y

DUNEDIN, Feb. 21

Jn the Police Court, William Dawson Cowie, (licensee of Gridiron Hotel), and Frederick Griffiths Paape (licensee of Oban Hotel) were fined £25 each for the adulteration of whisky. In the former case it was stated the licensee was away from town and the barman to keep the bottles from getting low poured the contents of several into one bottle.

In Paape’s case, Given, an employee, since dismissed, was suspected of adulteration.

REMANDED

PUKEKOHE, Fob, 21

The suspect arrested late .yesterday afternoon in connection with the nuor back outrage was Sidney John 'Vernon. He appeared at Pnkekohe .police Court to-dav charged with the offence and was remanded in custody to appear before the Magistrate at Pukekohe on Wednesday.

FALSE DOCUMENT. ASHBURTON, Feb. 21

At, the Magistrate’s .. Court, Philip McL aughlqn, of Hinds, was charged with having made a false document by signing the name of George Tait to the consent to marriage of a minor. George Tait, of Ashburton, was charged with abetting McLaughlin in the commission of the offence. Evidence was given to the effect that in November 1926, Tait, not wishing to visit Ashburton, asked McLaughlin to sign a document relating to the marriage of the former’s son. Both pleaded guilty and were committed for trial and released under the Probation Act on the personal security of £SO each.

INQUEST. WELLINGTON, Feb. 21

Returning a verdict of death from hypostatic pneumonia and heart failure, following injuries by her .in a motor collision between cars driven by Keegan and Carter in Happy Valley, the Coroner," Mr McNeil said he had visited, the locality, and tests with a torch showed both drivers should have seen each other’s headlights sooner than their evidence showed they did.

...; ESCAPEE 'SENTENCED. OH RiISTCHU RCH Roy Raymond Whitting, aged 25, carrier, who was recaptured in Sydney recently, was sentenced to-day to three years reformative detention by Judge Adams, on a charge of escaping from Paparua Prison on April 18. 1927. Counsel pointed out that the original sentence of three years on which the prisoner was sentenced for breaking, entering and theft expired at midnight yesterday! - The Judge said it would be a most mischievous example if a prisoner were dealt with in a way which put a. premium on escape.

TOWN PLANNING. WELLINGTON, Feb. 21. The Town Planning, Board met today. Hon do la Perrelle presiding. The Minister speaking of amendments desirable in the Act, particularly an amendment of compensation and betterment provisions, said regional planning provisions in the 1929 Amendment Act were complete in them;selves and stood by themselves, without reference to any further amendments that might be made to the principal act and civil surveys also could not be affected by any further amendments. It was preferable any authorities that had not already completed these should do so witliout further delay. He stressed the necessity of regional planning. These schemes, 1 he said, did not necessarily commit any local authority to carry out works or expenditure that would not be otherwise undertaken.