DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 August 1930, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

THEFT CHARGE, 1 (By Telegraph—Per Press Association. ELTHaM, August 15. At the Court tins nioniing before Justices, Patrick 0 Neele Id, single of Kaponga was sentenced to fourteen nays on two charges of stealing a bag of wood and a hag of coal at Kaponga oil .August 13 and I*l. Accused was also c.tiarged with breaking it nil entering a built store at Kaponga on August i, and stealing goods valued at I.os lid, and with attempting to break and enter a grocery shop in the same premises, ho pleaded guilty and was committed for sentence at the New Plymouth Supreme Court. ATHLETE INJURED. DUNEDIN, August 15. Advice lias been received that L. O. •Johnson, a member of the New Zealand Empire Games team in Canada, has dislocated a rib and both shoulder blades. ' Johnson probably sustained injury while practising the pole vault

AN INTRUDER, WELLINGTON, Aug. 15. An alarming experience fell to tFie lot of Miss Jennings, Postmistress at Ngaio yesterday afternoon, when a man entered the building and attempted to force his way behind the,counter. Miss Jenhings called for help but as the Post and Telegraph office which is really a small shop converted into an office is rather isolated, she was unable to get any response. Finally she made a rush for the nearest telephone ami rang for the police. Meanwhile the intruder made his escape. Nothing apparently was taken from the office. MOTION OF PROTEST. iCHRISTCHURCH; August 15., Support of a protest against the increase in taxation made by the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, was expressed by the Canterbury* Chamber o* Commerce in a resolution passed by the Council last night, 1 ■ :•!' ' ' I".’ . QHtyISTCHUR CH, J August 15. The installation of Lord Bledisloe as Grand [Master of the Masonic Grand Lodge of New Zealand will take place in the Civic Theatre, Christchurch on November 26th.

Mr George Barclay, Grand Secretary, arrived in Christchurch last evening to arrange for the installation.

; FINED £IOO. ' AUCKLAND, Augustlo. Clarence Russel was fined £IOO for assisting in the management of premises as a common gaming house. The prosecuting detective said Russell declared lie was going out pf.the business as he had been called on.too often. Mr Hunt—-We will see whether lie does or not. WIDOW’S REQUEST GR ANTED. AUCKLAND, August 15. A remarkable story of a master mariner who committed suicide and left no provision for his wife and four children out of an estate worth £14,000, was told at the Supreme Court, when Bessie Maud Gill, brought an originating summons against the executors, seeking further provision. Frederick Joseph Gill made ft'will on September 26th 1928, and on September 26th 1929 he committed suicide, leaving his whole estate to his brother and sister, who had predeceased him, so that half of the estate became available to the family. It was stated that the w fiaeeemahNNe2 ETAOf ETAOI ES wife came to New Zealand in 1824 witli £9OOO and at her husband’s request invested it in his name. The Court increased the family’s income to £6OO.

A FATAL FALL. WELLINGTON, Aug. 15. Falling off a motor cycle on Hutt road at 8.45 last' night, Clarence Sefton Fnlloon, of Lower Hunt, a joiner, received injuries from which he died in the Wellington hospital at 6.30 this morning. TO MODERNISE BUILDINGS. AUCKLAND, Aug. 15. A modernising of buildings promotion society has been formed in Auckland with the main object of relieving unemployment by promoting the renovation, etc., of out of date dwellings and other buildings. A prominent accountant said the chief obstacle appeared to l>e fear, a complex from which many Aucklanders were suffering. He drew attention to a statement by those regarded as authorities, telling the public to economise. A man out of work could not economise in time or moody, if lie Were (spending (money in legitimate directions. A leading business executive estimated 40,000 houses in Auckland, probably 10 per cent, were in need of a modernising expenditure of £IOO per lxmse, which would make an aggregate of £400,000 in the liezt twelve months. A MAN INJURED. CHRISTCHURCH. Aug. 15. Thomas Lewis, a waterside)-, while Engaged this 'morning in stacking laths in a railway truck from the Golden Coast, slipped and fell head first on to the wharf. Lewis was removed to the casualty ward. His injuries are grave.