DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1933, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS

S.M. COURT.

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BANGJORA, October 12

Gilbert McKinley, a farm labourer, appeared in the Bangjora Court, before Messrs W. A. Bowse, J-P-, and W. A. Banks, J.P., charged with drunkenness. He pleaded guilty and was lined 10s and ordered to pay 2s car hire. On a second charge of damaging a mattress valued at os, two bolsters valued a(, 2s and lour blankets, valued at £-, the property of the New Zealand Govern 1 nielli, lie was convicted and ordered to pay £2 7s, the value of the damaged bedding, in default one month’s imprisonment. The accused was allowed till the end’ of' the month in which to pay. Evidence given by Sergeant P. Cassidy showed that the accused wa's -arrested in Ashley Street on Monday evening and lodged in the Hock-lip. In the morning the bedding was found damaged, some- of the blankets having been torn to ribbons.

N.Z. AND WORLD PARITY

WELLINGTON, October 13

The House of Representatives met at 10.30 ii.ni; Continuing the debate on the World Conference, the Hon. A. D. McLeod (Wairarapa) said that, with her present population, the Dominion' could not solve lier own problem, irrespective of what wits' happening ill the out O'*.?' World. The c-i'mt'ry u'Oiil ! reqtiire a population of af lea-it tweiitx millions' before prides could be adjitst- ! ed internally without regard to work! parity. bequest in will. BLENHEIM, October 13. 1 The Public Trustee announces that, under the will of the late Jane Evans O’Dwyer, of Blenheim, a trust of £IOOO, subject to a certain life interest lias been established, tile income to bo applied to tile establishing of a scholarship in medicine at Nelson Boys’ College, to he known as the Thompson Scholarship, in memory of Mr s O’Dwycr’g father, who was one of the 'founders of the Nelson Schools’ Society:

five a/nd a Half Ton launch

GISBORNE, October. 13

■ A difficult transport feat is being performed to-dav -in the dispatch of the’36 feat launch Idalia, • weighing 51 tou-s, from Gisborne ’to Lake Waikave M«ana. The launch is mounted on a lorry, and trailer, specially constructed, to negotiate the sharp bends in the mountain roads.