DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 March 1931, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS

LOST OVERBOARD. TRIMMER IN THE TAINUI. (Australian Press Association) AUCKLAND, .March 9. During the voyage of the Tuinui from Southampton to Auckland, a trimmer. H. Sellars, aged forty-five years, a single man. was mi"ed from his sleeping quarters and could not lie found. It is presumed that lie was lost overboard on the night ol I*<■ 1• many 21, when tile, liner was a week out from Panama. He was a Londoner, and it was his first voyage in ihe Tainui. STOWED A WAV. TWO MEN DEALT WITH. AUCKLAND, March 9 Robert Craig, aged nineteen years, slowed away a hoard the. Tonic whie.i left Auckland recently. He was put ashore at Pitcairn Island, and i':,s brought to Auckland by the Tainui Craig was sentenced to a fortnignt’s imprisonment to-day.

Alexaiub‘l Harvey, ago 1 il.i: tv-lwo, slowed away on the Niagara which arrived from Sydney. He was lined !_'7 10s. 'Time to pay was re-fused. tSOfj 10s (Id DAMAGES. FOR MOTOR CYCLIST. CHRISTCHURCH, March .10. Tn the Supreme Court to-day before UN Honor. Mr dustier; Kennedy, the jury awarded damages amounting to 9800 KN (id in an action following a motor collision. The parties were dames Ciimi.v Murray Lee. plaintiff: and Wright Stephenson and Co., and Frederick Otto Schmidt', salesman, then in Wright, Stephenson's employ, defendants. Lee. was filling a motor cycle. wh*ii struck by a car driven by Schmidt. The .fudge held the defendants to lie joinrlv and t-e vein 11 v liable.

N.Z. DEFENCE FORCES. NEW COMMANDER. WELLINGTON. March Hh The Defence Minister announces the appointment of Brigadier W. L. 11. Sinclair Burgess Chief of the Genera! Staff, to succeed .Major-General R. Young as General Officer Commanding th*' Defence Forces.