DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 July 1930, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

KNOCKED DOWN BY CAR

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HAMILTON, July 1

Knocked down by a motor car on the Great -South ltoad at Horotiu late last evening, Arthur Richardson, aged 30 years, was admitted to the hospital with concussion and extensive abrasions. The injured man had left a motor cycle on the side of the road and was crossing the road to get benzine when a passing car collided with him. The- car did not stop. The injured man’s condition is not dangerous.

COMPANY LAW

,DANNEVIRK.E, July 1

An unusual private prosecution took place at the Magistrate’s 'Court, when the Dairy Company Chairman of Directors, Secretary and Dan tievirke Co.-op. Dairy Coy., Ltd., were charged with refusing to two members of the Company the right to inspect the register of members of the said company. Two members were

dry shareholders and desired to inspect the register, subsequent to the destruction of the factory by fire and was refused permission by , the Manager unless the Chairman gave him permission to show it.

The shareholders concerned Wrote to the Registrar of Companies, who suggested that action Ibe taken. The contentions of the ' manager were that he acted under a misapprehension. The charge against the Chairman, was dismissed, there being no- evidence to show that he knew anything about the application. The Secretary was fined £1 and 10s costs. The Company was convicted and discharged. } ; v Disorderly. I?,;-:-,y/.v: -■- ___ I)iNpVIRKE, July 1. ; ATnatiye,;! named James Walker, forhierly a well known Hawke’s Bay .Rugby representative, was arrested on Saturday afternoon after a strug-gle.-,with the police. He was fined £5 dii; one month, for resisting the police, and £3 or three weeks, for using obscene langauge. He was convicted ■’find discharged for drunkeness and ordered to pay damages to the constable’s shako. p?Vk ! ■ ij/ v ' - ’ | FIRE VICTIMS. DUNEDIN, July 1. Mrs Jailer and Rosabell Miller, victims of the, Sydney fire tragedy, lived fotmeriy ' at Abbotsford near Dune|hev iSvdney eight Rosabell was a music er, keen' tennis player and swimmer. REMANDED. r “ AUCKLAND, July 1. -.Philip Henry Ross, 38, formerly a policeman in South Africa, to-day admitted attempting to obtain coca mo from a doctor by falsely representing ■lie was a ship’s doctor. He said Lc had been addicted-to drugs for ten v years and pleaded to be sent to an institution. He was remanded. Further charges c'f forgery are pending. BODY FOUND. DUNEDIN, July 1. The body of William Donaldson, exImperial soldier, and married with six children, was found on the road leadin«r to the town belt. Deceased had been employed by the Returned Soldiers Association at work in a reserve, and had nbt been in good health. GARAGE PROPRIETOR HURT. HASTINGS, Jne 28, A garage proprietor, Arthur H. Wilhsop, was the victim of an unusual accident yesterday afternoon. While endeavouring to open an® empty 44-gal-lon petrol drum, he struck the screw cap a blow with a spanner. A spark fit once ignited the fumes remaining in the drum and an explosion blew out both the ends. The- top end struck him on the side of his head and knocked a hole in the roof of the garage. He was' taken to hospital and to-day was reported to be progressing favourably. EXPRESS STRIKES A BOULDER TE KUITI, June 28. The north-bound express, which passes through Te Kuiti at 2.40 a.m., ran into a large boulder on the side of the track three miles south of Te Kuiti this morning, resulting in damage to the engine, two cars and the postal van. The undergear of the engine was damaged. Steps and a battery box were torn off one car, and the steps and undergear of the other car. The van was only slightly damaged. The express was delayed -for two and a quarter hours. The Limited express was also delayed for one hour (md a quarter while the track was being cleared. There were no casualties.

POSTAL CLERK SENTENCED,

WELLINGTON. July 1

“I am not able to look lightly on a charge of theft against a postal officer trom packets entrusted to him,” said Mr Page S.M. in sentencing William (leorge McLean, aged 26, a postman, on seven charges of theft from letters containing money totalling £l6 iSs 6d. “The safety of the postal service and the integrity of the officers seem to me to he matters of paramount importance.” Accused was sentenced to six months.