DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 September 1930, Page 5

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WELLINGTON. Sept. 24

New Zealand housewives have an extraordinary capacity for arranging flowers, remarked Lord RJedisloe, at the Karori Spring. Show. He did not know where' thee learned the trick, but the table decorations were delightful. In liumine New Zealand homes, many flowers were t<> be found which would will a first' prize in any British flower show. It was one thing to grow flowers, but another tiling to arrange them nicety in a home. In the Old Country, tligy were prone ,to crowd them so tightly in an inch vase, that no single bloom had a chance to justify itself. That was not the. case in New Zealand.

FILM POSTERS

REGULATIONS FORMED

WELLINGTON, Sept. 24

Regulations dealing with the censoring of film posters announced by the Minister of Internal Affairs (Hon de la Perrelle) some weeks ago, have been before Cabinet and it. is. anticipated they will be approved by the Executive -Comicil on Monday, »u which event they will be published in the Gazette on Thursday \<’eek, When he made the announcement recently, the Minister indicated that the regulations would be of a drastic nature, but lie said last evening that he would not be in a position to disclose the precise terms until they were gazetted. A THIEF. BLENHEIM, September 24. The sum of £4 in cash and a gold ring were missing after an intruder had been disturbed in the homestead of F. E. Fainveather on New Renwick road. A visitor at the homestead heard someone moving about in the kitchen and upon going to investigate, a man bolted outside and disappeared in a plantation and made a getaway. Further developments are expected as it is beliejved that the thief was recognised. TWO STOWAWAYS. CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 24.

Two stowaways from Australia, George Henry Wood and John Herbert Lyon, were sentenced to a month’s gaol in Lyttelton. Court this morning. j Asked if they had anything to Sl h v > Wood stated he had been up against it in Australia for the past eighteen months. He had a family to support and had to endeavohd to obtain work. Lyon stated that there were thousands in Australia tramping the country and going into the bush who were practically without shoes, or clothes and were starving, “and (before leting myself go down to that I decided to give New Zealand a trial, he added. STRUCK OFF ROLL. WELLINGTON, September 24. The Court of Appeal this morning made an order striking Robert George Gardiner Bain off the roll of practising barristers and solicitors of the Dominion. Counsel for New Zealand Law Sociey, Mr Free, said Bain formerly practised in Gisborne, but recently had been convicted on numerous charges Of theft from various clients, and at present was serving a term of reformative detention for twelve months. The amount involved in these charges was £27] 13s 6d.

An order -was' made for payment of fifteen guineas costs to the Law Society.

BYE ELECTION

WATPUEUR ATI, September 24. Nominations received at noon for Waipuknrau bye election were: Albert Edwar/d Jull of Waipawa (United Party.) William Tucker, of Clive, (Official Reform.)