DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 October 1931, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS

* i. • .. FINED - £2O. * '• \ V ' V (By Telegraph—Per.Brest Association) - WELLINGTON, October 3. A fine of £2O and., an’ order for the cancellation of his driving license for six months was the penalty imposed on Christian Diegaand Nielson, aged 51; company manager, by Mr McNeil, S.M., for being intoxicated while in charge of a car. NELSON COLLEGE CADETS. ■ NELSON, October 3. Addressing the Nelson College cadets, Lieutenant-Colonel -Nicholls, Commandent of the Southern Command, stressed the '■> importance of the work in the secondary school cadets. He hoped . the - < boys would continue training after leaving college. On returning to their homes in, all parts of ; New Zealand, they would be' valuable to various lotfaT territorial units, v: as,-‘ they had received such an excellent - grounding, enabling them to proceed with advanced, and technical work straight away. He was thoroughly convinced that the Nelson College cadets are still the best in the Dominion.

PAKAFOO RAID. IN TARANAKI STREET... WELLINGTON, October Following on a raid on a Taranaki Street shop last . evening, , and. tbp: finding of six Europeans and three Chinese round a pakapoo table, the keeper of the house, Ah Wing, was today fined £3O, and his assistant, Ah Fong, £25, in default, two months’ • and six weeks’ respectively. The Europeans were charged with being found in a common house, and each was fined £l, as also'with a‘ third Chinaman. ! ' ... FATALITIES. ' _ : ROADMAN KILLED. ,': ■ ) * i ‘ WELLINGTON, October .3. ' ’ Fatal injuries • were . received .by James Gilmour, of Bolton Street, when 'he wias caught between two' lorxieß in the Ngahaur.angi Gorge this morning. The deceased was a roadman, employed, by the . Highways Board.