DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1931, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS.

JUDGE TO' INSPECT WORKS, (JJy Telegraph-Per Pre»» A»toeiaiion } # ' GISBORNE, Juno 10. In the Wairoa insurance case, evidence on the lines of the previous testimony was given this afternoon, following which the Court adjourned until Monday. The Judge will inspect the freeing works to morrow. A.M.P. HOLDINGS IN SECURITIES. WELLINGTON, June 19. In connection with the figures recently published as showing the publicsecurities held by the various lile insurance companies, the local office, of the Australian Mutual Provident Sosiety states that the total held ly it amounts to £43,882,928. Of this the Australian Government securities 'amount to £21,103.882, and the balance is comprised of securities of public bodies and municipalities in Britain, Australia, New Zealand and other Dominions.

N.Z. UNEMPLOYED. WELLINGTON, June 19. For the week ended June 15, the unemployed registered in the Dominion numbered 44,482, as compared with 43,453 for the previous, seven days. The number of men qualified under tlie No, Five Scheme and placed in work was 33,751. WOMEN'S THEFT OF.A DOG, WELLINGTON, June 19. Having taken a dog from a private residence at Karori. Mnbffi Harvey, trading under the name of “Miss Christinas,” and Martha Stevenson, were jointly charged with obtaining i> 2 from Victor Larcprob by false pretences.

Mr Page, S.M., did not accept the story that the dog was taken away for kindness to teach the owner a lesson. He fined Mrs Harvey £5, and convicted the other accused and oudered her to come up If called upon within twelve months,

HOTEL LICENSES. GISBORNE, June 19. At the Bay of Plenty Licensing Committee annual meeting the following resolution was passed: “That it be a recommendation for consideration by the proper authorities that the necessary amendments be made to the Licensing Act to authorise the Licensing Committee to permit the removal of any class of license granted in respect of premises within its district to any other premises in the district without any restriction as to distance.”

A BRUTAL ASSAULT. WELLINGTON, June 19. John Edwin Jones, aged 4”, was sentenced by Judge MacGregor to twelve months’ reformative detention for causing actual bodily barm to a lady with whom He had been friendly. A plea was made that Jones’s action was really that of a sick man. The Crown Prosecutor said that Jones had been warned twice by a constable and had said that he would not do the lady any harm. However, he followed her. and brutally assaulting her, and had it not been for the timely intervention of two men, she might have been killed. The doctor’s report was that Jones was at present mentally unbalanced, Probably due to worry and family affairs.