DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 May 1930, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

GIRL ASSAULTED

[By Telegraph, Per Press Association

May 23.

On a charge o l ' asur'lting a girl in a tramcar Frederick Richardson, aged 29, was fined £5.

A girl, aged 28, gave evidetr ei llirt on April 17 accHsed sat next to her in a tramcar. Accused .placed hb Hand on her on two w\s'oris. She smacked his face and the conductor placed ae-usetl in custody.

Accused said t’ud l * 0 by a flea and lie had occasion, to scratch his leg once or twice, He might have placed lib hand on the girl, but if be did so the action was bntirelv accidental. “I believe the girl’s story,” said the Magistrate (Mr Hunt), in imposing a fine of £5 or 14 days.

CAR HITS A POLE

NEW Pi.YMOUTH, A 1 ay 26

When .a car driven by Air G. L. Roles, oil drillin', crashed into an electric light pole to-night, the fact was widely advertised, for every light in New Plymouth was extinguished. Dazzling flashes of electricity played about tlie damaged pole, and astonished people who were considerable distances away, and who had been attfacted by the crash of the impact. In the weird light of electric ,flashes. Coles was found unconscious in his car, but be recovered sufficiently to walk to the ambulance.

Coles, who came to New, Plymouth from Mexico, was reported late tonight to be apparently not seriously hurt.

The light in some sections of the town was not restored for an hour.

CAR VICTIM’S DEATH. NEW PLYMOUTH, May 26. Norman Coburn, the musician, of yOpunake, who r& eived a fractured ■skull in the collision between bis ear .and a stationary one on Saturday, died ~n the .hospital to-day. YOUTH’S FINGER CUT. PAHIATUA, May 26. A* el rose AValtau, a youth employed ■as a. grocer's, almost had the (middle finger of bis left hand severed ■by a bacon cutting machine. FOOTBALLER HURT. PAHIATUA, May 26. W Bolden, iin the Pukehinau.Akitio backblocks football match at Waione on -Saturday, fractured bis leg. and is in the Pnnnevirke Hospital. CAR KILLS CYCLIST. AUCKLAND, At ay 28. Fatal ■ injuries were received by a cyclist, Joseph Kenneth Ross, aged 29, single, when he was thrown from a cycle after a collision with a motor car at Dominion Road to-day. Ross was picked up unconscious, and died six hours later. Deceased, who was an ex-Navy rating, ’had no relatives in the Dominion.

motorist sent for trial. AUCKLAND, May 26. Following a verdict of death due to fracture of the skull and haemorrhage of the 'brain in the Ponsojtby Road fatality of Saturday, May 17, Andrew Smith, fish curer, 38 years of age, was committed to the Supreme Court today for trial on a charge of negligent driving, causing death. The victim of the accident' was William John Humhy, aged 67, who was knocked down by the 'accused’s car. Accused was allowed hail in £SOO.

SERIOUS CHARGE. GISBORNE, May 26. A remand for five days was granted ; n the Police Gourt this morning in a case in which Norman McLeod Martin, aged thirty-three, headmaster r* a country school, was charged with ■ nd-vpiTtly assaulting a youth of twenty on May 20. Bail was allowed. The position of the Education Board h the matter was explained by a tp further of the Board, Mr Wnuchop, who said that even if criminal proceedings had not been taken accused have been suspended while a committee inquired into rumours. Martin, however, has resigned. A POOR THIEF. AUCKLAND, May 28. “You are a poor sort of thief, and