DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 January 1931, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

BOOKIE FINED. * —— v ßy Telegraph-—Per Press Association^ WELLINGTON, January 15. Robert Hector Peak, as the result of a police raid on bis conteetioiicr’s shop in Moles\vortli Street, was to-day fined £3O for bookmaking, . although the police alleged that lie was doing substantial business in bets, Peak said the business was small aiid that he was acting lor another bookmaker on a commission basis.

SERIES OF THEFTS. BY COUNTY INSPECTOR. AUCKLAND, January 15. Pleading guilty to a series of charges of theft of 'sums of money totalling Clod belonging to the Manuka County Council, Charles Norman Clark, aged 47, formerly an Inspector employed by the Council, appeared at tire Police Court, when he was remanded in custody until Saturday morning for sentence.

AUCKLAND TRAGEDY. AUCKLAND, January 15. Keith (Jonksqn, aged 19, was found dead, shut' through Ihe heart, in bis bed at a boarding bouse in Eden Cresceiiit, City,' this .mur.ii.ing A . pea rifle was lying beside the bed. ' Gooksnn came to Auckland ■ eight months ago from W.idpukurau\ where lie was a.- carpenter/ working for bis father. ' Eor some time lie had been looking for Fork. POSTMORTEM EXAMINATION. . yAffjCK LA XI). January 15. A postmortem examination has neon ordered on the body of Nina Billing, aged 25, who was found dead last evening at Orakei. At the inquest, William Archibald Billing said that bis wife bad been in perfect health. lie left home in the morning,on returning from work alter five o’clock, lie found his wife lying on the bedroom floor, fully clothed. She was blue in colour and partially warm. Hp called a. doctor but restoration iefi'orts failed. \There was no poison in’" the bouse.