DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 December 1930, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

RECTOR OF ST. BEDE’S. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 16. Very Rev. Father A. Burger, who has been vice-Rector of St. Bede’s College, lias been appointed Rector in succession to the late Rev. Father Gilbert. He wap born at Ivuniara and educated at S't. Patrick’s College and Canterbury College. . DUNEDIN NORTH SEAT. DUNEDIN, December 13. “My present intention is to contest [lie Dunedin North seat against nil comers,” stated Mr H. U Tnpley, n former Mayr of Duiiedin, who represented the electorate ill the 1925-28 Parliament, this afternoon .

Mr Tapley said the first intimation he had had of Mr W. R. Hayward’s candidature in the Reform interests was in to-day’s papet. . He had not been consulted by the Party supporters, although lie had announced after the last election that lie would again be a candidate at the next poll. He would still stand for Reform.

Of recent months, he added, the Party had not been active in Dunedin, and he could not say whethei the request to Mr Hayward to stand was official. WOMAN GAOLED. CHRISTCHURCH, December 15. Marguerite Livingstone, a domestic aged 32 was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment with hard labour by Mr E. D. Moisey, S.M., in the Magistrate’ Court this morning, for being an idle and disorderly person, having insufficient lawful visible means of support. FALSE PRETENCES. AUCKLAND, December 16. Said to he the son of an Argentine millionaire, Walter Benbow Yaldimai (a salesman aged 38), alias AY alter Lucien De Ferdinand was sent to prison for eight months on two, of foui teen charges of obtaining £196 cash, and £•• in goods from various persons by iepresenting he was receiving forty thousand from his father’s Argentinian estate.

Counsel said A’aklinar’s creditors knew him for many years and were aware that Ids father was a wealthy magistrate. Mr Hunt, refusing probation, said it was no use mentioning restitution as the people Valdimar defrauded would not get paid, as lie was an ordinary fraud going about the country.