DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 April 1932, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS

‘ FARMER FOHND'TSHOT; : By Telegraph —ter tress Association INVERCARGILL, April IS . The hotly of Thomas Hili'erman, .armor, of Conical Hills, was found with a bullet wound in the bond on his property on Saturday evening. A rifle was found lying, nearby.

MR- JULL CEDING CHAIRMANSHIP.

NAPIER. April 19. Mr A. E. -lull. M.P. for W'aipawa, and for the last twenty years Chairman of ghe Napier Harbour Board, has announced his retirement from the Chairmanship after the next monthly meeting. STOWAWAY FIXED. WELLINGTON, April 19. A Moimwai stowaway from Sydney, .John Williams, 26, was fined £5, and for unlawfully landing in New Zeaaiid, and was ordered to he deported. Meanwhile lie will Ik; hold in custody. A CHARGE DISMISSED WELLINGTON, April 19. Molding that .service stations came within the moaning of a motor garage, Mr Page, S.M., to-day dismissed informations against John liiieklelon, of working at his calling in a, public place on Sunday. Bucklelon. who is director of the British International Oil Company,-drove a tank wagon from the bulk stores and roplenishorf the .supplies at the Company’,s ■service station on Unit Road. He did not regard this as a work of necessity, hut llic Act expressly excludes persons' employed in a- gtirage, and Mi Rage held that Bucklcton was entitled to renew the petrol supply.

PROTESTS ENTERED

AT HOUSEHOLDERS’ MEETING

WELLINGTON. April |9

Practically at all meetings of hour hJ.lors ill Wellington, protests 'V' l ' l made against the p'nposed ee.mmili'v in lh ( . edlleiUion vote. Special reier were made to capitation, and |h proposal that the school fitfo si Id raised from five to six, received eon demiialion.