DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 February 1930, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

, CORONER’S VERDICT. i. ' ,By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) "WELLINGTON, February 25. Evidence shows that every necessary 'precaution was taken for the safety ot men working in the tunnel, said Coroner .McNeil, at the inquest of Samuel Fleming who died following being injured when buried by a fall of rock in Tawa Flat tunnel w\>rk at Ngahauranga, on the night of February 13. Ap parently, said the Coroner, it was one of those accidents in which workers underground run a risk. The deceased died from plieumonia following the injuries received from the accidental fall of rock. Deceased had no relatives in the Dominion. It is understood his parents live in Ireland. NOTABLE VISITORS. WELLINGTON', February 25.

Barrow Cadbury (Chairman of Directors of Cadburys) .Mrs • Cadbury ■ and Misses D and A J Cadbury arrived on a short visit to the Dominion to-day, and were received by the Deputy Mayor and representatives of business organisations. The party are going south to-night. Mrs Cadbury who is a woman magistrate is particularly interested in Juvenile Courts and New Zealand’s treatment of delinquent children. v

Miss Dorothy who is n director of the firm is interested in the Sunday School movement and Miss J. A. Cadbury is a teacher of botany. OIL FIELDS REPORT. GISBORNE, February 25. Taranaki fX.Z.) oilfields report for the week ended February 22. Gisborne No. 2 well working on caved ground Vid fishing for lost tools, now securing outer strings of casing with cement, in order to control gas pressure. Gas still very active and a slight show of oil continues intermittently. SMART ARREST. ' AUCKLAND, February 25. ■' At Broadway, New Market, at midnight; constable Lendy observed an electric torch flash in the doorway of Jjowies’ gramophone shop some .distance away. He ran in to investigate and arrested a young man, Robert John Bolton, an Australian, who had been working as' a labourer. Bolton had in his possession screw drivers, hie and pair of pliers, also a seven chambered revolver loaded in six chambers. It is alleged that the, file was broken the break corresnonding with - a file end found in the,, keyhole of the railway station, door previously. Bolton was charged' at the Police Court this morning with being found by night in possession of housebreaking implements, and a revolver, and was remanded for a week. It is stated that further; charges will .be made against 'the accused. ... THEFT CHARGES. BLENHEIM; February 25. Edward Ala hood, ager 21, a recent arrival from England, pleaded guilty to converting to his own use, a motor truck valued at £300,' the property of Jeffery McGlashan Inglis of Riwaka, Nelson; also the. theft of a case of benzine valued at 19s 6d belonging to Inglis,; also the theft of a pair of boots valued at £1 the property of E. W. Sharpe. Maliood’s excuse that he bad been drinking was considered by the Bench to place a more serious complexion on the offence as lie was a grave danger to traffic. He was sentenced to two months hard labour on the conversion charge and convicted and discharged on the remaining counts.