DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 May 1930, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

ILLEGIAL LOTTERY

By Telegraph—Rer Press Association.)

THAMES, May 2

The secretary of tlie AVaiomo Pare committee was charged with establishing a lottery, in which the prize was a to note, in order to purchase an area outside the borough for a camping site. A queen carnival was conducted, per mission being obtained from the Ail blister to raffle steel engravings. The committee proposed a prize of £5, but on a police protest, the sale of tickets was stopped, and the raffle abandoned.

Defendant was convicted and ordered to pay costs, 10s, tlie Bench remark-! ng that the defendant had not • sold any tickets.

PRICE OF SUGAR

AUCKLAND, Alay 3

The prices of allgrades of raw and refined sugars, including tablets and icing sugar, will be reduced to-mor-row by ten shillings per ton.

WELLINGTON GAS FIRE

AVELLINGTON, Alay 5

In connection with the lire -at the railway gas containers, it is now ascertained that as: far as'-the material damage is concerned, the blaze was probably not disastrous, for no great damage was done to the gas house, and the containers 'are capable of fairly quick repair; but until tlie gas house is in working order again, it will be difficult to- supply carriages with gas, for, as it was, it was necessary to keep the plant going full firessure in order to meet requirements. INDIAN DOCTOR DISQUALIFIED. AUCKLAND, May s*. An application by the New Zealand Medical Council to have the name of Balder Singh Share, formerly a medical practitioner at Auckland, removed from the medical register was granted by. Judge Herdman to-day. Share, who is serving a term of imprisonment, was not represented, but he filed an affidavit protesting his innocence of the-charge on which he was found guilty. The Judge declared that Share had been found guilty by the jury, and he had no option but to grant the application, with the proviso that re-admission could not be sought- until after tlie lapse of five years. A T A RAN 'TCI GRIEVANCE. • ■:? WELLINGTON; :Aiay 5

A : representative meeting of seventy members of the Co-operative Dairy Companies interested in the Egmont Box Coy. was held at lETtham to-day to consider the action" of the Gbvorument in permitting the confiscation by the Patea Native Land "Board t,f the Tongariro Timber Company’s timber properties, in which the Box Company is financially interested: A resolution was passed unanimously protesting against such action -without submitting 'the claim to arbitration, as provided in last year’s legislation. A representative deputation was appointed to interview the Government.

LANDMARK DESTROYED. - . DUNEDIN, Aiay 3

The powder hulk, a very old landmark, which has lain for many years on the edge of Otago 3 Harbour at Waverley, and which has latterly'been ,n use as a cabaret, was burned to the water’s edge early this morning.

DEATH OF A SEAMAN. AUCKLAND, May 3

Leading Signaller Arthur James Hal liday of tlie warship Dunedin, while motor cycling yesterday, struck a telegraph pole, a died o'f injuries this (morning.

CHINESE SMUGGLED IN. AUCKLAND, May 3

“This is one of a number of Chinese who were smuggled into the Dominion four years ago from Australia,” said Air J. M’lntosh (Collector of Customs) at the Police Court, when he. prosecuted Chang Joe on a charge of entering New Zealand without a permit. Joe pleaded guilty. Mr M’lntosh added that Chang Joe said he paic! £l5O to fin agent in Australia to get to New Zealand. “’We know that some of them have • been coming here by such means,” added Mr AT’lntosh. Chang -Toe was fined £lO and ordered to be deported.