DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 August 1930, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

UNUSUAL CASE. i R. ACM HORSE TRANS PO LITER FINED. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association. PALMERSTON N., Aug 1> Stating that the case was the fir r of its kind in New Zealand, .Mr I. I. Stout, S-M., to-day fined Samuel Brown 10s for working in the public view oil a Sunday. Brown is the owner of two motor horse floats used for conveying racehorses. On tlie date of the offence lie left Hastings for Wanganui. En route he left the vehicles in front of the Palmerston North Police Station for a period. Io was Sunday and jockeys were seen entering and leaving the vans. Counsel for the defence pleaded that defendant came within the Exemptions Act which allowed the droving of stock on a Sunday; but the Magistrate did not agree that transportation could he considered as droving.

GIFT SYSTEM. SOME OBJECTION RAISED. WELLINGTON, Aug. 20. The gift system used by some traders was described as unmoral at a meeting of the Wellington Chamber ( of Commerce, and it was decided to forward the following remit to the annual conference of tlie Association of Chambers:—“That the conference, depreciates the growth of gift sys-f terns which interfere with other trades. While there can be little objection to a discount or -rebate system whereby a client is refunded (a) in cash when he is free- to- make his purchases through ordinary channels of trade; or (b) in kind in form of similar goods that are the manufacture of the wholesale distributor. There are serious effects felt by traders when extraneous articles are offered under these schemes.”

A REMARKABLE CASE. GISBORNE, August 19. An unusual case came before the Supreme Court to-day before Air Justice Reed, when a youth named Leslie Clyde Munro, alias Roy Williams, aged 22 years, pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawful carnal knowledge of a Maori girl aged 15 years. His Honour remanded the accused until the afternoon to enable the amount of the costs to be fixed, but when the Court resumed, His Honour said he had ascertained that the accused was serving a term of two years reformative detention, and it would be useless to order him to pay costs. His Honour proposed, therefore, to impose a nominal .penalty to be concurrent with the term now being served. ;

Miiriro was sentenced to one month's imprisonment with hard labour.

NOT GUILTY. NEW, PLYMOUTH. August 19. Not guilty on all counts was the verdict of the Supreme Court upon three charges of indecent assault, or, alternatively, indecent acts with young girls, at Tangarakau, preferred against Percy Collin, gS, a Public Works employee and caretaker °f Mie hall in which the offences were alleged to have occurred.

KNOCKED DOWN BY MOTOR CYCLE. . AUCKLAND, August 220. Arthur Thomas McGuiimess, aged 38, married, a fruiterer was stink by a motor cycle in a city street last night and thrown heavily on the roadway.. He was given medical attention and walked home, where lie was put to bed. Shortly after eleven o’clock lie got out of hod and fell down the stairs and was taken to the hospital and died this morning. A DISQUALIFICATION. . ' STRATFORD,, August 20. E. Roebuck, member of Okato Football Club, who was recently fined in the Magistrate’s Court for assaulting a referee in his Club’s game against Tukapn, was last night disqualified for life by the Rugby Union from playing, and debarred for five years from holding office in any foot ball Club.