DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 September 1930, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

STORE ENTERED

(By Telegraph—Press Association),

DUNEDIN, Sept, 18

Yesterday evening a. general store at Waitahuna, owned by Miss Mary Ryan, wai> entered aJnd about £2,9 in notes and com were taken from a tiil in- the safe. Miss Ryan locked the shop but not the safe, since she intended to return in the evening. POSITION EXPLAINED. : DUNEDIN, Sept. 18. In reference to a Wellington message that members of the crew of the Tahiti compl'.am that no relief was given them by the Shipwreck .Relief Society, the position is that under the rules no relief can be given a ship’s crew or passengers unless the vessel is wrecked in New Zealand waters. HOARDINGS. ACTION TAKEN. DUNEDIN, Sept. 18.

As a protest against despoiling the countryside with large advertising hoardings, four prominent Dunedin citizens recently set out with saws and axes to clean up Cromwed Gorge. They dumped one hoarding near Clyde into the river (before the local police Interfered. Court proceedings may follow. One of the party stated the action, was taken as a protest against' the Government’s inactivity, in allowing the country to be made hideous, by roadside hoardings, RIFLE CLUBS. AMMUNITION ALLOWANCES. WELLINGTON, September 16. All-round increases in the ammunition, allowances to ride clubs were announced bv the Hon J. G. Cobbe. (Minister of Defence) to-day. The present grants to approved Rifle Association, meetings and the sale of ..ammunitionto the members at a reduced rate are to be continued, and a free issue of 300 rounds and. the loan of a rifle is to. be given to members of the 'Territorial Force Reserve who join rifle clubs. DEAD BODY FOUND. , ■ -AUCKLAND, Sept. 18. The dead (body of a man believed to .be Ralph James Grey, aged about 50, of Hikuai. in Thames district, was found floating in the harbour.ln the pocket was found a bank book showing a credit of over £6OO. TRAIN DERAILMENT. ■ AUCKLAND', Sept. 18. Owing .to the derailment of trucks at Penrose, blocking the railway line a-t nine o’clock /this morning, the Limited express from Wellington was diverted over Westfield deviation and through "the- new 1 .goods yards to the station. Thus,, through . the accident, the Limited was the first time-table train to use the new deviation which will riot be opened for more than a month v«t.

AT COLERIDGE.

CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 18. There has been no rain in Coleridge watershed sine© Monday. The level of the lake iw steady at 1658.8 ft which is thirteen feet below normal.' POSTAL CLERK’S THEFTS. iCHIMSTCTIURCH. Sopt. 18. In ‘the Maigistrate’s Court, fjour charges of stealing letters, and three of opening them were preferred against William Arthur Bowan, aged nineteen, a postal clerk stationed at Littl© River. A detective, read a statement in which accused admitted taking small sums of money from three letters he had opened. Accused pleaded guilty and was committed for sentence.