DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1930, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

MAN FROM BORSTAL

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.*

WELLINGTON. Ooctober 17

Discharged from the Borstal in May, after serving four years for breaking, entering and theft, Ronald Edward Morrison soon fell into the hands of the police again, being charged with abductin, and also the conversion of a car, besides three charges of theft. On the latter, he elected to be tried by a jury, and was remanded for a week.

For the oonverion of the car, ,he was sentenced ,to three months. It is alleged '.that Morrison wont off from Nelson,' with a girl of fifteen, and that he is mow awaiting trial there for abduction in connection with this.

FALSE FIRE ALARMS

WELLINGTON, This Day

Included in five malicious false alarms received in one day recently by the Wellington Fire Brigade, was a call to Government House, where it was alleged the laundrv was on fire. Th ree of the alarms were given within its many minutes and at one stage, eVoi'y engine alid fireman Was out. The sei'iotisiiess of such a state of affairs was emphasised at a meeting i f the Board, when ways and means of suppressing the mischief was discussed. The Chairman .(Mr Nelson) said be would like it to go out that the Act provided for a term of imprisonment not exceeding one month and a fine not exceeding £50.. Mr Dean said that,magistrates might take into consideration a suggestion that offenders should pay the reward Mr Morpeth—lt is a pity someone could not invent something that would take flashlight photos of everyone who rings up the brigade. (Laughter).

GIRL’S ESCAPADE

ASHBURTON, This Day

A girl aged nineteen masquerading as a mail, was arrested on the railway station yesterday on a charge of absconding from the girls’ home at Christchurch, and theft of £8 worth of was remanded to Christchurch.

YACHTING ASSOCIATION

WELLINGTON, 'October 18

Speaking at a meeting of Wellington Prinvincial Yachting and MotorBoard Association, J. Moffat said that the proposition, was made last year to form a Neiv Zealand Association to ca>rry on National work, • more especially outboarcT' and motor-boat racing. There are now: four or five , championships for power craft competed for in New Zealand and it was’ time, when the association should be formed.

BAG SNATCHING. WELLINGTON, October 18. Another case of bag snatching occurred on one - of the Kelburn cable cars. A lady coming to the City for the purpose of paying several accounts, in order to put on she placed her handbag on a seat in the car. The car pulled up at one of the usual stopping places, (and just as it moved off a male passenger seized the bag and jumped off the moving car. This left the lady helpless as she could not follow her property. Before she could collect herself the car was well under way. summerTschool. WELLINGTON, October 18. Frank Tate, director of the Austrr.lian Council for 'Education Research, will attend the summer school to he held at Christchurch and give a course of lectures on comparative education, public lecture, rural education in Denmark and also educational research in Australia. _ The Governor General has accepted, the office of patron of the Summer School.

A WRESTLER’S EXPLANATION. WELLINGTON, October 18. “I don’t want to go away from this country leaving a bad impression,” said the wrestler, Billy Edwards. “I. ain very much disturbed at the impression created through the disqualification the other evening. The whole business, which brought about the diqualification auci consequent impression not fa voidable to myself, was the result of a misapprehension on my part. I have been wrestling professional}’ for 12 years in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Australia. Everywhere I found that kind of wrestling I gave here was what was wanted. lam naturally rough but what I had given the rest of the world was what J. expected was wanted of me here. It is my misfortune that such Was not the case, 1 can of course work to any rules and any style, but what is one mail’s meat is another’s poison. What suits Sydney and Melbourne may not suit Wellington. There is no reflection in that. It seems to me it is a matter of geography. Wrestling can lie just what you make it. 1 mean to say it can be made amendable to the strictest rules or indulged in roughly. It. is taught in every school ami college in America as a regular normal thing. I have given exhibitions in schools, in Y.M.C.A’s. and in church halls, and never a word lias been raised against it, as one of many sports.