DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 March 1931, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

200 FIRMS RE-ESTABLISHED. [by Telegraph, Per Press Association.) NAPIER, March 26. ■According to a. directory issued today, two hundred firms from the devastated area, in Napier have re-estab-lished themselves in business. In many cases the premises are mere shelters tucked away in all sorts of places. Steady rain Ml '-throughout the night and will do much good to t-he country, hut it found many leaks in battered dwellings. The present- prospects suggest a continuance. SWINDLER FINED. AUCKLAND, March 26. .7oh a Henry Mahood, a youth from Cambridge, who swindled an Auckland bookmaker of £49 by an ingenious trick (wired on Monday) was fined £lO by Magistrate Hunt, who convicted and discharged Mahood on an additional charge of attempting to defraud the same bookmaker of £lB4. AN UNUSUAL INCIDENT. CHRISTCHURCH, March 26. ' William James Brown Parks was fined £4 and costs by Magistrate Moseley to-day on a charge of driving a truck in a dangerous manner. The police alleged Parks knocked a Tuan down, then stopped and put the mnn on the side of the mud, then driving off i Counsel for Parks said the a censed regretted going on, as he realised that a serious construction could be put on it. Tlie Magistrate mentioned that constructed was that accused had more drink than was good for him. Tt was stated another action was pending.

TIMBER CUT. WELLINGTON. March 26. Mr Seed, Secretary of the Dominion Federated Sawmillers Association, announced that at a meeting of country sawmillers in Hamilton yesterday .it was decided to give immediate effect to a drastic cut in timber prices averaging about twenty per cent, off the recently prevailing list prices. PREMIER’S FUND. WELLINGTON, March 26. The Premier’s Fund is now £271.820 including £73,000 front the New Zealand •‘Herald.” 1 •