DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1930, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

GARAGE FIRE.

[By Telegraph, Per Press Association.] MASTERTON, August 29. A fire broke out in A. A. Harcombe’s garage this morning as a result, it is alleged, of a live match being thrown down near some benzine by a visitor to the garage. Seven cars and a truck were practically destroyed. Considerable damage was done to the building. The amount of damage to the cars and the building. probably runs into a very big sum. Good work by the brigade soon had the fire out. S.M.’S DECISION UPSET. NEW PLYMOUTH, Aug. 29. An appeal against the local Magistrate’s decision that certain itinerant photographers’ premises were not a shop within the meaning of the Act was upheld by Mr Justice Ostler. Al* bert A. Prescott, photographer, contracted; with Inspector Berryman to take six photographs lit six positions for half a crown at 1.30 p,m. on a Saturday, the hulf-holkniy. Prescott did the work himself, and the sitter had no right of rejection, No assist* ants were involved. It had been submitted that the payment was for the labour, and not for the goods sold; that the photographs were not chattels kept or offered for sale ; that the sale was made before the photographs were taken, and that the premises could not be defined as a shop. The Judge reversed the Magistrate’s finding. He held that the photographs were chattels, and that the premises constituted a shop. An important canon, he said, was that by the public it was accepted as a shop. COURT CHARGES. WELLINGTON, August 29. Edward Nicholson was fined £ls for failure to furnish a return of land and Robert Masked August was fined £2. Arthur Finch Marshall, whb it was stated, was in November last convict ed of being in possession of seditious literature and fined £SO, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within twelve months, for. addressing a crowd on the waterfront without a permit. For failure to furnish returns of income tax (four charges) Frederick James Staniforth was fined a total of £B7. He is the proprietor of a service liile between Wellington and Mastel'ton, it wtis stated that his net income for six years was £7,860,. and the tax evaded was £433. Discharged from gaol Inst month Duncan Johnstone, was sent back today for six months on charges of false pretences. H. F. W. Ward, who tfailed to account !to the Official Assignee for £lO 13s 4d, was admitted to twelye months’ probation and the money to he refunded. The money was book debts Ward collected after a bank- i ruptcy. SELECTION ENDORSED. WELLINGTON, Aug. 28. The following telegram was sent to Mr Tucker this evening by the Leader of the Opposition, the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates: “I am very pleased to hear of your selection ns the candidate for the Waipawa seat. I have pleasure in confirming your selection and in sending the best wishes of the Party and myself.” Mr H. M. Campbell, the Reform member for Hawke’e Bay, also telegraphed his personal congratulations and those of the Party. ANOTHER VICTIM. WESTPORT, Aug. 30. The tunnel explosion in Buller Gorge yesterday claimed another victim, Thomas Corbett, who yesterday was reported progressing favourably. He collapsed this morning and died. An inquest on the victims, Edward Waldi© and Charles Ayres, was opened this \mdrning Bor identification purposes and adjourned sine die.