DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1930, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

THE MEASURED “NIP.” (By Telegraph—Press Association). AUCKLAND, Sept. 1. A statement to the effect that the ninepenny “nip” of spirits which was introduced in hotels in Auckland after the announcement of the increased Customs tariff has had only a short life and that.practically all hotels have reverted to the old system of passing over the bottle; is strongly denied by the Auckland Licensed Association. It was admitted by the Association this morning that several hotels have not yet introduced the measure system, but this had been merely because they have not yet been able to acquire the measures. The rule, however, was to sell measured nips. There was no bojection to an hotel selling either ninepenny or sixpenny nips, or even both. WAIPAWA SEAT. UNITED PARTY CANDIDATE. NAPIER, Sept. 1. Air A. E. Jull (Waipawa) lias accepted the invitation to contest tlie Waipawa by-election as a United Party candidate. BEQUESTS UNDER WILL.;' AUCKLAND, September 1. Charitable bequests amounting to £7750 were made under the will of.tlie late Samuel William Miller a bootmaker, of Ponsonby. The individual amounts range from £IOOO to £SO. Gifts of £IOOO each are made to the Leslie Presbyterian Orphanage, the Knox Home for Incurables and the St. James’ Presbyterian Church Auckland. Each of the following receives £SO0 —Auckland City Mission, Auckland Branch of the British and Foreign Bible Society, Papatoetoe Orphans’ Home, Manurewa Children’s Home con ducted by the Baptist Church, Sister Cecil’s Home known as the Brett Memorial Home, Sister Esther for charitable work in Auckland, Scripture Gift Association, The Auckland Ladies’ Benevolent Society, the Auckland Salivation Army,, and the Auckland Widows, Orphans’ arid Aged Mason’s Fund of the Grand Masonic Lodge of New Zealand receive £250 each. The remaining monetary bequests are £2OO to ! the trustees of the Masonic Temple Auckland, and £SO to the St. Helens Hospital, Auckland. Two pictures are bequeathed to the Auckland Society of Arts,., , t ■ ' i FOUND SHOT. ; CHRISTCHURCH,'September . 2to* ; William Morgan, aged .18; was found by a passing motorist at the entrance of Hagley Park, suffering from a bulTelT'Wbuli'd" in "the left shoulder; He stated lie received the wound when a rifle be was carrying was fired acci- - dentolly..:: ■- .A small. -Belgian- rifle-■ -wasfoiled in; the Park this; morning with -an-empty..'.shell iii 'tlie breach. Near the rifle was a-rolled up blanket. Morgan’s condition i:s not serious. DANCE; HALL COMPLAINTS. CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 3. “I think most of the" complaints come ftom annual or one night dances. There seems to be more trouble at “flash” dances than at . those con- , ducted for the general public,” said a leading dance ball proprietor, replying to the City Council statements. “At a one night dance,” lie said, “there- is no control. It is simply raffprtys rules and anyone can get. ..drunk and stay until the end of the da'Vice.” ' ' ...-

;.t i BOOKMAKER FIXED, t WELLINGTON'. Sept.. 2. Arrested, on a charge of carrying on ■business as 'q. .bookmaker, Bert Cook, a baker, faged 47,'.was fined £o when be appeared before Mr . E. Pa<r<\ in tbe Police Court to-day.. The (stated that oeeused was out ,pf. work and in - poor xjircuinstances. He was an agent for a bookmaker. Counsel said that his client was an agent for a bookmaker. WOMAN VICTIM IDENTIFIED. WELLINGTON, Sept. 3. The woman victim of the He.rotaunga motor cycle smash has been identified as Mrs Mabel TJrcig. BODY RECOVERED. WELLINGTON, Sept. 3. The body of Sydney ‘Williams, a young Maori drowned at Tiringa om August 11th. was recovered yesterday. At tlie inquest a verdict of accidental death from drowning was returned.