DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 May 1930, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

AN APPOINTMENT

(Bv Telegraph—Press Association)

WELLINGTON, May 23

‘ Mr Forbes announced ‘to-day that Mr E: •L. A.. Got/ lias ibcen appointed the general manager of New Zealand Reparation Estates in Eastern Samoa. Mr Got/, who is at the present time with the Loan and Mercantile Agency Coy.., was for a number of years in British Malaya and has an extensive knowledge of plantation work.

DRUNKEN MOTORIST

ASHBURTON, May 23

John Crowe was sentenced to fourteen days hard labour and -delionised for three years for being intoxicated in charge of-a car. The police stated that in Timvald defendant’s ear came into collision with a pet ambulator containing a child which was sfighytly injured. T'he .following day the car was found badly-, on the road at Lismore, defendant' being intoxicated, with liquor in the car.

MOTOR-CAR STOLEN

TIMAIiU, May. 21

A five-sea ter Chrysler sedan car, a 1927 model, bearing the new number plates 146-775, was stolen• from’'Kibble '^Street;-Ohtiinru, at 7.15 this evening. The. car a private-owned one, is dark blue in colour,- with two spare tyres, one on the righ hand front mudguard,and the other at the real.

AUCKLAND CITY RATE

FIXED AT 4s IN THE £

AUCKLAND, May 21

An increase'in the total rates to 4s in the £ was approved by the . City Council.

The estimates as submitted require a total rate of 4s 2d, but the estimates were cut to enable the rate to be fixec. at 4s. 1

'COMMITTEIXFOR TRIAL

WELLINGTON, May 21

John Bernard APDonald, alias Frederick M’Alister, aged twenty-nine, ■ a slaughterman, and James Olsen, aged thirty-six, a labourer, who were found on the premises of the. Grand Opera House on the night of May 10, veie to-day committed for trial on charges of 1 attempting.: to break and enter the couhtftig'-iious'b of J. C. -Williamson, NiZ.;. Ltd., with intent to commit a crime, and with being rogues and vagabonds in that they were found by night without lawful excuse in the Gland Opera House building.

The police said that the night-watch-man found a broken'file in a lock,-Tin! summoned the police. A search then revealed two men biding behind sea vs in Abb: stalls.

COLLISION WITH BUS

AUCKLAND, May 21

Damages amounting to £8(50 in compensation tor injuries sustained as-the result of a motor accident; at Point Chevalier on July 10th, 1928, were awarded by the jury in the Supreme Court to.’Robert James Paul, a labourer, of New Lynn, against the Auckland City Council. Plaintiff alleged careless and negligent driving on the part of the motorman of a municipal bus. The sum of £l5O was claimed for medical expenses, £2lO for loss of wages and £SOO general damages. Plaintiff sustained injuries as the result oT a collision between his motor-cycle and the municipal bus.

GUARD KILLED

FALL' OFF ELECTRIC TRAIN

CHRISTCHURCH, May 23

Through falling off the Little River electric train near Hornby this afternoon, W. Ranskill, the guard, received injuries from which he died in the Hospital to-night. He was admitted to the hospital in a serious condition, and did -not regain consciousness. '

AY AIR All A PA’S AV ANT

MASTERTON, -A!ay 23

AVairarapa Progress League to-day decided to organise a representative deputation from the district local bodies to interview the Government next month and urge that a Rimutaka deviation be put in hand forthwith It was agreed that there were no questions of routes or figures to he discussed, but that the Government should be asked to do what the former Government had declared to be essential. The members held that money should be availalflif for this work, considering that £1,400,000 was spent last year on unemloyment relief.

UNEMPLOYED MAN’S THEFTS. TO FEED CHILDREN. NEAV PLYMOUTH, May 23. . A\ T hen Charles Edward AA r harton, aged 22, was arrested for theft of various small sums of money and goods from dwellings in Tikorangi district, he admitted his guilt, and told a detective he had married a widow with five children, and, being unemployed, he had stolen to feed the children. TTo was committed to the Supremo Court for sentence.