DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 4 July 1932, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS

%(Per Press Association — Copyright.) tli'.Vv:-,., COMMISSIONER TO RETIRE. }|f! WELLINGTON, July 4. V§||r TUJ. Gumming, Commissioner,of ‘lilies; Avill retire on superannuation of August. ! \f ILLICIT GAME SHOOTING. \f . WANGANUI, ‘July 4. tv Geoffrey Galdston Campbell, for "iiioptingji duck without a license, and fl|| 'shooting on Kaitoke lake sanctuary. firrejl £s ' oil each' charge, with ■ i v ; ’MpShe ’’ .pihisecution was brought by the Acclimatisation Society, GoulV"el. stat ; ,ng that there had been several? complaints- of illicit 'shooting. TRAP-SHOOTING. CLAY. BIRD CHAMPIONSHIP. CHRISTCHURCH. July 2. The South Island clay bird championship was shot off on the North Canterbury Club’s ground ‘at Rang’-ora this afternoon, conditions being twenty-ore b : rd, s from the 18yds mark. There were fourteen competitors. I. G. Wat/kins (Rangioiui) broke the possible, taking they first trophy and the champion-hip with a first-barrel performance, P. Arn-st iand H. M. Wright tied . with twenty birds each, -and divided th e second prize. . INQUEST OPENED. WHANGAREI, Juiy 4. A formal inquest for identification purposes was held to-day concerning the dentil of a. WUnnga-rei fisherman, Srecko A,lnch, whose body was found ma swamped dinghy-, at the mouth of 'Pa ilia rum river on Saturday. No I further light wa,s thrown on the nature of the tragedy, though -it- is supposed Frank Glue-ina and' Akcli, when fishing dangerously near the rocky coast • in a -dinghv belonging to the former’s auxiliary fishing boat Sadie, which

wps anchored out, ifficl. that an unusually heavy swell capsized the small oraft. Everything was intact aboard the Sadie which.was brought to portlast night. The police a-rtd other.parties conducted a -search along the wide stretch of beach all yesterday hut di.'.covered no sign of Glm-inn.