DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 May 1931, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

motorist convicted. : CASE WHERE GIRL WAS KILLED. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association) ■CHRISTCHURCH, May 8. On Easter Saturday, David Bell, farmer, while driving a car on the Main Road near Geraldine, collided vitli - cyclist, Vera Goodeve, aged 16, who died from the injuries .she received. 'BelD-was*''tried* a-tr 1 * tlfe--' Supreme Court, Timani, before Mr Justice Adams on a charge of negligent driving, causing the death of the girl. On that occasion the jury failed to ngree.Bell was tried again, at Christchurch to-day. The evidence was that 801 l was travelling thirty miles an hour on the wrong side of the road, and the girl was rMing on her correct side, but without a light. One . witness stated Bell was steering an erratic course. The evidence of witnesses • who saw Bell was that he smelt of liquor, hut was not drunk. The prisoner said he had had only three drh’ks and was sober. Tire jury found th# prisoner, guilty oT negligent driving. He was remanded for sentence.

gas COY’S, oenbenture ISSUE. WELLINGTON. May 8. At a General meeting of the Wellington 'Gas Coy, authority was granted for the issue of £350,000 of mortgage debenture stock. COMING RETIREMENT. WELLINGTON. May 9. Act in 2 on medical advice, Mr W. R. Davidson. Assistant Chief Engineer ’ms asked to be relieved of his duties md will retire shortly from the Railway service which he joined in 1898.