DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 4 February 1932, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS

FARM WORKER INJURED

[by Telegraph, Per Press Association.]

WHAKATANE, Feb. 3.

A middle-aged farm, hand, Peter Donnelly, met with, a serious accident while hay-making at D. L. Murray’s property, at Thornton, to-day. The breaking of a rope caused a stacker to fall, striking Donnelly and fracturing his skull. He was conveyed to Wlialcatane Hospital. His condition is reported to be serious. The injured man came' from Ireland a few years ago, and has been employed by Murray for two years.

A PAIR OF BURGLARS

WELLINGTON, Feb. 3. . ,i.Having,.plei.uted guilty jtp jtfur. sum- «* mary charges and three offences of breaking, entering and theft, at Johnsonville, on January 20th, William Johnson, engine-driver, 30, and Arthur ■ Albert Clayton, blacksmith, 22, ap4 t peared before Magistrate Page to-day. \ Johnson was ordered three months imprisonment for being a rogue and < vagabond, and twelve months for car- , tying ap automatic pistol, the terms ■ to be cumulative, Clayton was sentenced to six months’ for being a rogue ' and vagabond. On further charges of being unlaw- : fully in possession of housebreaking { instruments, theft of a crowbar, and conversion of a motor-car, both were given three months’ imprisonment concurrent with the other- sentences.

They were committed to the Supreme Court on charges of breaking, entering and theft.

FARMERS’ UNION

WELLINGTON, Feb. 3

At a meeting of the Dominion Executive of the Farmers’ Union, a motion that award wages in New Zealand should be varied at regular periods according to the rise or fall in the cost of living figures as operating in Australia was deferred for further information.