DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 May 1932, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS

AN ILLEGAL ACT

CAR OWNER FINED

By Telegraph— Per Brets A ssocmtion)

NAPIER, May 19.

Magistrate Miller to-day held that it was illegal for car owners to carry passengers, who agreed to “share expenses.” A fine of £1 arid tests 10s\ was inflicted. ... . • ,

CHRISTCHURCH NOW NORMAL.

CHRISTCHURCH, May 19

A full tram service was running today, and everything is back to normal. The settlement of the Christchurch relief workers’ strike is dependent on a statement, expected to-morrow, from the Minister for Employment, in reply to certain demands made by representatives of the men. Meanwhile most of the relief operations are pro-, ceeding without a hitch. .

LEAKING SHIP ARRIVES

WELLINGTON, May 19

The Pakelia arrived at 5.40 a.m., and until a survey is made, it will not be known how 'Serious the leak is. The leak is understood to be slight, and lias done no known damage to the cargo. -

COUNTERFEIT FLORINS'. i

WELLINGTON. May 19

Counterfeit Australian florins, dated 1927. and ' 1931,. have' come under the notice of banks, and they can easijv be passed and accepted as genuine. They are lighter than the real coins by about a quarter of an ounce. The nitric acid, test is. unreliable unless the base metal underneath is expo-ed.

HOPEFULNESS IN FIJI

BRITISH SUGAR PREFERENCE

AUCKLAND, May 16

An nir of- hopefulness as a result of increased preference For colonial sugar imported into Britain was noted by Mr H. P. Hopkins, of Wellington, manager in New Zealand and the Pacific Islands for the Royal Insurance Company, who returned by the ■Niagara to-day from a business visit to Suva.

Mr Hopkins said bis visit was only a brief one, but the air of hopefulness* in the colony was very marked. The progress made in Suva in the past three years in the direction of increased building and the erection of concrete structures also was very evident.

SLTP OX RTMUTAKAS

MASTERTOX, May 1 16

All traffic on the Itimiilaka" Hill- was field up to-day by a large''slipwhich came down on the Wairarapa side, about 50 yards from the Summit .it about 4.30 this morning.

The roadway was completely covered with debris for a distance of some yards, but a working party was early on the scene, and by 2.30 p.m. lire slip had been cleared sufficiently to permit of passage of traffic. During the morning and the early part of the afternoon, service car passengers wore transferred from one car to another at the slip.