DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1930, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

CITY COUNCILLOR PASSES

(By Telegraph—Press Association).

CHRISTCHURCH, June 27

Obituary.—Frederick Riley CVoke, aged 64, a member of the City Council and prominent Socialist for thirty years. He was highly regarded by all parties. He was horn at Bradford, England.

WANGANUI BURGLARY.

WANGANUI, June 27

Another burglary occurred at Wanganui last evening, the Crown Depot premises being entered by a back window and £ll worth of cigarettes stolen. Entrance was made by a back window on which the burglar pasted paper inside. He was confronted with a considerable amount of crockery ware and this he (pushed over and damaged to a considerable amount.

LICENSING ACT.

WELLINGTON, June 27

S. T. AYhiteford, licensee of the Post Office Hotel, charged with trading after hours, was to-day fined £lO, and two men unlawfully on the premises were each fined £2.

THEFT CHARGE

CHRISTCHURCH, June 27

' As a sequel to a man hunt through the city yesterday evening Milton George Elliott, aged ‘23, an engineer, appeared at the Magistrate s Court and pleaded guilty to' a charge of stealing £2 11s from the till of a shop in Armagh Street, and was remanded for sentence. He was found by the owner behind the till. He bolted and was pursued by a taxi driver. TWO SKELETONS FOUND. ROTORUA, June 27. Workmen blasting a boulder to form a, new road to Tnrawera lake shore, discovered in a small cave the skeleton of a woman and child. The boulder at some period was dislodged from the cliff above, imprisoning the victims. Tt is possibly thought to be an echo of the. Tarawera eruption in 1886, though the bones suggest an earlied period. RELIEF WORKERS RESUME, AUCKLAND, June 2". All men on Papakura district relief works, whose credit with storekeepers was stopped, this week, are back at work. According to the District, Public Worlds . Engineer, the men feared that the stopping of credit was an iudirect dismissal. The District Engineer said the whole matter lnvd; been referred to Wellington. fatal ENDING. CARTERTON, June 2-. John Strathern Adair, 47, who was admitted to Grey town hospital on Thursday after an accident at the local brick works by being crushed in. a pit by a fall of clay, died in the early hours of this morning. MANY THEFTS. ROTORUA, June 27. The climax to a series of robberies was reached this nforning when T. Paterson, S.AL, sentenced Hope Williams to twelve months’ hard labour with detention for two years. On other charges of which the maximum was six months, accused was sentenced to three month,s’ hard. On various other charges lie was convicted. The case aroused great interest. Accused who pleaded guilty to some thirty thefts, entered houses while the occupants were moving about, choosing the hours between 7 and 8 p.m. Daring and ingenuity marked the operations. Some houses were entered four times. Nine of me charges were for thefts in 1930 and twenty in 1929. A very large amount of stolen property was found in the possession of accused, who was a hard-working man employed as a motor driver, on whom no suspiciop was fixed. The Magistrate, in sentencing him. said the public must be protected against such depredations, which were becoming too common.