DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 June 1918, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

THE SEAMY SIDE OF RACING. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Napier, Last Night. At the Supreme Court, Frederick Hampson and James Willoughby, charged with conspiring to defraud Maori women of £l9 at the last Hawkcs Bay races* and who were alternatively charged with obtaining money by false pretences, in that they received money to put on a horse, representing themselves as the owner and trainer, and refused to show the totalisator tickets, were found guilty on the latter charge, with a recommendation for mercy for Willoughby, a Wellington boardinghouse keeper, who was influenced by Hampson. Sentence was postponed. CONCILIATORY EFFORTS OF MINISTER. Napier, June 11. Hon. G. W. Russell is in Napier in connection with the objections lodged by the contributing bodies to the rise in the hospital levy. He intendri to call a round table conference of the di"s interested, and the Hawkes Bay )?« : ' al Board, to see if an agreement-e?" ue arrived at before a commission i up under the Act. He intends to .sue the same course in Wellington) the only other centre which has lodged an objection. STATISTICS FOR MARCH QUARTER. Wellington, June 11. During the March quarter of 1018 the amount advanced to settlers by the State Advances Department was £82,334, the amount repaid by settlers being £117,370. Advances to workers for the same period amounted to £23,705,, and the repayments £35,681. The amount advanced to settlers for the year tended March 31 was £307,160, as against £589, 975 during the preceding, year, the re-£ay»eaW-b*ing t£SOI,QQ&