DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 March 1931, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS

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AN INEQUITABLE, SCHEME

(By Telegraph —Per Press Association)

DUNEDIN, Alareh 12

At a meeting of the Council of the Dunedin Chamber ot Commerce tonight. to discuss the proposal of the Government to levy a tax of 3s fid per cent on insurance companies to raise £1.500,000 in connection with earthquake disaster relief it was agreed to write to the Associated Chambers pointing out that the proposed tax was inequitable as it would hit only one section, namely the section that was insured; and that, the matter being one of national importance, a more equitable method of raising the necessary amount should be adopted. SIXPENCE PER HEAD. SHEEP SACRIFICED. DUNEDIN, March 16. At the last stock sale at Tari'as, when 2000 sheep were penned, a line of fresh failing mouthed ewes brought fid per head. Another pen changed hands at £l/6/8 per hundred, while a | runhokler made a gift of 150 tailing mouthed ewes, the pick of 500, to a neighbouring small farmer. A MAGISTRATE’S COMPARISON. AUCKLAND. March 16Stuart Casley, aged forty-one, was fined £25 for carrying on business as a bookmaker. Robert Francis Singe, aged fortyone, on a similar charge, was remanded till march 19. The Magistrate (AH' Hunt) said: You can’t stop bookmaking. It’s no use saying you can. It’s like opium smoking. CHILI) DROWNED. KA IKOITEA, March 16. Ernest, Henry Stipe, aged one year and nine months, son of Ivano .Slape. of Beach Road. Kaikoura, was drowned yesterday afternoon in a creek at the roar of the lipes r *. The child had wandered away after dinner, and when Miss H. Burney, sister of Airs Slaoe. looked for the child later she could not find him. On running down to the creek si,,. found the body in the wiif.er against a floodgate. Artificial .resuscitation was tri°d without. success.