DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 September 1930, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

POWER SHORTAGE.

I"By Telegraph, Per Press Association.]

CHRISTCHURCH, September 4.

To avoid a shortage of power the City Council decided to-day to cut off all the street lights at midnight, and under a threat of a more drastic curtailment, shop and sign lighting and electric displays generally are not to be used after hours.

Under a similar threat the public is required to discontinue office and shop radiators, domestic radiators, water heaters, and non-essential house lighting. ,

TOWN PLANNING.

NO BILL THIS SESSION.

WELLINGTON, September 3,

In a message to the Town Planning Board, whose meeting he was unable to attend, the Hon. P. A. de la Perrelle

says that no further town planning legislation is possible this session. His personal conviction was that no substantial progress could be made in the preparation and carrying out of statu* tory town planning schemes until uniending legislation was passed re* moving disabilities under which urban authorities were at present labouring In' respect to the assessment of compensation and betterment in connexion with major public improvements, He does not see, however, how it would have been possible to find time this session for proper consideration of the Town Planning Billv-

FALSE. PRETENCES

WAIROA, Sept., o,

Walter Robert Lage was charged at the Police Court this morning with altering an order for meals given by the local Branch of the Hawke’s Bay War Relief Association, from two to twenty. Accused pleaded not guilty, and was committed for trial' at the Supreme Court, at Napier, now sitting.

STOLEN GOODS

i AUCKLAND, Sept. 5

After women had been sentenced to three months to-day,for stealing shoes, a shopkeeper asked the Magistrate that no order be made for payment to the pawnbroker at whose place the stolen goods were found. 1 He alleged the pawnbrokers who bought new shoes were practically receivers of stolen property. The Chief Detective protested, and stated the shopkeeper hung his wares right out in front.

Magistrate Hunt aaid; You should chain Up your boots. Thg shopkeeper replied that lie had even wired boots together on a pole, and the boots, pole and all bad been stolen.

The Magistrate declined the application hut later remarked: There is something in what he says. these dealers should not buy new shoes

DROWNING FEARED

BLENHEIM, Sept. 5

George Edward Hayes aged 46, a labourer, fell off a launch in Queen Charlotte Sound yesterday. It is feared he has been drowned. Police are dragging now, but there are no details. 1 ■