DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 June 1932, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS

SMALL CAR RUNS lAWAY. > Hy Telegraph—Per Press A xsociatinnl ■ -U; : ••;<'•. AUCKLAND. June 13. :With a man • Standing on the runtiling .board, a- small motor-ear, apparently out of control, travelled down Wakefield Street ...shortly after 10.30 sl'ast evening. It-tu-cssed Queen Street, and with a crash--©f splintering glass and-, woodwork smashed through the plate-glass window of a shop in Fergus,son Buildings. The man was hurled half-way down a flight of stairs leading to th© basement of the shop and was taken to hospital unconscious. He is suffering from severe head injuries, .The car bad been rented. The driver was not aboard when it ran away.

TOBACCO STOLEN FROM CLUB. CHRISTCHURCH, June 13. A burglar who visited the Pioneer Sports Club’s rooms, in the city, made a clean sweep of the club’s stocks of cigarettes, cigars and tobacco. The club’s loss is estimated at £29. There is nothing to show how the -man gained an entrance Ip.the building or how he left, it after making his haul. The main dooms, which lead in-..from Oxford Terrace, were locked at .11.15 o’clock last night. All' the .windows were also locked, and this morning • the building was /securely locked wjien the steward arrived to commence liis‘duties. ARSON CHARGE ADMITTED, ’ . ASHBURTON. .Time V. In tliej police court, Joseph Gi-liW-pie admitted" wilfully firing -the srn’thy owned by W. B. Lundy, at ffimvaU. on February- Ist last year. Accused, in a statement, c nid that the <|iian-elltwl with iLmirly five yeans ago, and. when lie had <!iqu Belt- a -gyrevance-. He was committed for sentence.