DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 July 1922, Page 7

DOMINION NEWS.

PHOTOGRAPH COMPETITION. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, July 12. The New Zealand Inter-club Photograph Competition resulted: Invercargill 1127 points, Wellington 10&8, Auckland 1018, Hamilton 1006, Timaru 923, Dunedin 918, Christchurch 885; possible, 1300. STATE SERVANT’S EMBEZZLEMENT. ■ Wellington, July 13. !' At the Magistrate’s Court, Ralph Emery Small was charged with the theft of £32 19s 5d in his possession as officer of the ' Education Department, and further with ; the theft of five sums of money totalling ' £2 10s. Accused pleaded guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. “We had no time for an audit,” was ‘ the statement made by an officer of the J department. “There were times when ' accused had some 2000 accounts of indus- I trial school inmates in his charge, and in I the year he handled something like £10,000.” PROTEST AGAINST REMANDS. Wanganui, July 13. i A good deal of indignation is shown locally at the constant remands asked for by the prosecution in the charge of murder against Louis Taldy. • A sixth remand was granted this morning, owing to the Governtnept Analyst’s report on clothing sent for examination not "being complete. Mr. W. J. Treadwell, for the accused, commented strongly on the delay and suspense to the accused. The Magistrate, Mr. Rollings, agreed hat the man shook! not be held indefi- | t aitely in custody with a serious charge I f ranging over his head.

THE NAPIER SEAT. Wellington, July 13. Galbraith, who was recently fined for seditious language, is not to be the sej Jected Labor candidate for Napier. Mr. L. M'llvride is the candidate chosen by the party, and Galbraith is not recognised by FIRE AT TAUMARUNUI. Taumarunui, July 13. ) At Taumarunui, an eleven-roomed, two- ■ storeyed dwelling on the Matapuna Road was destroyed by fire at six o’clock this 1 morning. The outbuildings 'Jonq. were • saved. The occupants saved . a few ] clothes. The house was owned and oe- ■ cupied by Mr. A. H. Gregory. The building is valued at £2OOO and was covered i for £l2OO in the Government office. The furniture was insured for £450 in the same 1 office.