DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 May 1930, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

HON. G. FORBES

(Bv Telegraph—Press Association).

ROTORUA, May 26. Hon G. Forbes arrived at Rotorua on Saturday evening, and visited Sir Joseph Ward. He was shown over the Winter Show on Sunday. He visited Ngakura Pumice land development settlement at Atiamuri Road, and went into agricultural matters with departmental officers. After a full day, he left at 7.30 p.m. by car for Franlrton.

HARBOR FOR CHRISTCHURCH

CHRISTCHURCH, May 26

The Access to the Sea Commission heard evidence to-day, the first witnesses advocating a construction of the tunnel road from Heathcote through the hill to Lyttelton. The witness said that at present, up to 8 cl avs elapsed from the time when a ship began unloading at Lyttelton,' until the goods came to rest in the sheds in Christchurch.

THEFT CHARGES.

PALMERSTON N. May 26

According to your past history and the systematic nature of the thefts, one would not give credence to your excuse, said Mr Stout, S.M. at, the ..magistrate’s Court,, when sentencing. Frank Edward-Yates, aged 31,-of Wanganui, to four charges of theft of a suitcase at ’Wanganui, and other articles at Palmerston North. He said he must have been intoxicated. Accused was sentenced to nine months in all.

MAN INJURED.

WELLINGTON, May 26.

H. Cliff, a middle aged man, was knocked down by a motor car in the main street, Lower. HuH, and seriously injured in the head. The car did not stop, but the number is known. .

BOOKMAKERS, FINED

GREYMOU.TH, May 26

Daniel McCarthy, was fined £25 and £5 respectively on two charges of using his premises as a common gaming house. James Hassell was fined £SO and £lO similarly. He had two previous convictions.

James Heffernian was fined £2O for assisting in the conduct of a common gaming house and a similar charge against Phillip Stewart was dismissed.

OBITUARY.

CHRISTCHURCH, May 26.

Obituary.—Moss Ballin, 44, a surgeon denist, well known in New Zealand boxing and athletic oircles. He came from Auckland in 1919.

BREAKING AND ENTERING

CHRISTCHURCH, May 26,

Bail was refused by Magistrate Mosley this morning when George Oann, 40, was remanded to June 3rd on a charge of attempting to break and enter the shop of W. E. Munday, Ltd., Colombo 'Street, on Saturday night. The police said accused was an old offender. Accused, it is alleged, was caught by a neighbouring shop owner who had been disturbed 'by suspicious sounds. Another man escaped.

FORGERY CHARGE,

GISBORNE, May 26,

Pleading guilty at the Police Court this morning to forging a cheque for £4 IDs and uttering it to a tradesman, Norman Hughes Jeffs, alias Porter, alias Jeffrey, aged 22, was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Bail was allowed.

INTOXICATED DRIVERS. GISBORNE, May 26

When turn Maoris appeared before him this morning, Mr Harper, S.M., issued a warning that licenses would be cancelled in all cases of intoxicated drivers.

Sydney Eparaima, 41, who collided with another car was fined £6 and his license cancelled for six months. Iriapa Renapa, previously convicted in December, 1928, of a similar offence, was fined £lO and his license, was cancelled for eighteen months.

MOTOR. CYCLISTS COLLIDE

ONE. KILLED

ELTHAM May 26

At ten o’clock last night, Felix Jacob Lehrke, aged 20, a grocer of Eltham, was killed when his motor cycle eolllided with a motor cycle ridden bv Geo. Alexander Anderson, a farm labourer of Finnery Road, Ngaere, at a bend on the Mountain Road within the borough boundary, It was a head on collision. Both riders were found beneath the machines by a oasser-by. Lehrke died almost immediately and Anderson is unconscious with a broken thigh, leg injuries and fractured • hand, being taken fo the Hawera hospital. The machines were badly damaged. The night was clear and apparently both headjligths were burning. Lehrke’s parents left last week on a visit to Tahiti. '