DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1930, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

INQUEST VERDICT. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association. OTAKI, July 25; A verdict of accidental death wai returned in the case of Janies Stew ait, who was crashed into by a trait at Waikanae on Tuesday. No blann was attachable to any one, FALL OF SNOW. OTAKI, July,2s. I There was a heavy fall of snow or the ranges, it being the lowest foi years. CAR DRIVER FINED. CHRISTCHURCH, July 25.’ The maximum penalty of £IOO and costs was imposed to-day upon Norman Wardell for driving a car while his license was under suspension. Mr Mosley, S.M. said that he looked upon such an offence m one of. the most serious that could occur under the Motor Vehicles Act. Warded was also fined £2O for driving while in a state of intoxication. His license Vfas cancelled. . . A FRAUD CHARGE. DUNEDIN, July 25. , This young man has . had sixteen convictions for dishonesty since 1926, the police stated of Wallace , James Clifford True, who pleaded guilty to charges of . obtaining credit at boat'd’ ing houses by fraud. In one case he represented himself as a lieutenant in the New Zealand forces and in another as a doctor on holiday front Auckland. True also pleaded guilty to theft of £ls at Inaha (Taranaki), the property of Thomas Gordon Ingram. The police stated that since January True had been wandering through New Zealand obtaining credit by fraud in various boarding houses. While staying at a house in Taranaki he took £ls from Ingram’s wallet. He. was sentenced to terms totalling twele months. WOMAN’S DEATH. GISBORNE, July 24. Suffering from what was believed to be. effects of poisoning, Mrs -Christina Sutherland -McMahon, 31 years of age, wife of Francis Leonard McMahon, was taken to Cook Hospital by the ambulance to-day, and died shortly afterwards!, It is understood she mistook a bottle of rat poispn for medicine.,