LOCAL AND GENERAL

Evening Star, Issue 19923, 20 July 1928, Page 12

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Before Mr S. L. Paterson. S.M., at Rotorua, Mori Man was fined £25 on a charge of bookmaking and £lO for bet ting on totalisator odds.

I Great public interest centred around proceeding at Rotorua for alleged neg ligent driving and driving a car whilst in a state of intoxication. ease arose out of the death of John 0 Connor,- who was killed by a motor car on the Whaka road on June 29, After hearing voluminous evidence, including i two different statements by tho ac--1 cused, in the second of which he confessed that the knocked O’Connor down and ran away because he was afraid, the accused pleaded not guilty, and was committed for trial. The _ magistrate dismissed tho chargo ot driving while intoxicated.

j A meeting of tho Provincial Execu- ' tivc of tho Southern Hawke’s Bay Farmers’. Union discussed tho Nelson remit I—“ That a dominion conference be urI gently pressed to formulate promptly a ! farmers’ political party.” Major M‘Donnell moved a motion supporting -the proposal, which, alter discussion, was defeated, an amendment being car- , ried by 5 votes to 4 instructing the -'delegates to oppose the remit. The | delegates stated that, although thev | would carry out instructions, they j would express their own views on tho i • subject to the conference. A course ot herd testing was conducted at the Massey Agricultural Col- 1 logo from July 2 to July 14, and at the conclusion of tho course an examination was held. The following were awarded co'lego herd-testing certificates ;—L. T. Bear, M. A Dennan, R. Foster, J. Gro-, cott. B. 11. Giayling, J. B. Gumley.A. 0 Harvey, B. D. Holmes, S. D. Harp's, F. D. Jackson. B. •Lm-arU, T. -V. Jensen, J. E. Ivcukin, G. Bobban, H. i M‘Leod. \V, Nairne, U. C. B. Nicholas, IR, W. Maslin, B. A. Robbins, E. J. S. Robinson, H. P. Savill, J. G. Snutbe, C E Stephenson, R. J. Somers, C. 1 1 . Vilc/M. Whitham. S ' '”'Tson, J. A. Mawston, and V. L. Cordon. An unusual case came before Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., at Feilding (says a Press Association telegram), when Jas. Henry Pealcy (Rongotea) pleaded guilty to a charge of offering for sale a sack of potatoes with the largo ones -on the top and the small nderneath. A fine of £l, with 10s costs, was imposed. A deputation from the Counties’ As soolation interviewed the Hons. J. G. Coates and J. A. Young yesterday, requesting tho adoption of the comities conference recommendations (says a Press Association telegram from Wellington). Both Ministers gave sympathetic replies. The following New Zealand championships were awarded t tho Nelson ' poultry show— Duck or drake (heavy ! breed), J. Mnndy (Stoke); Rhode I Island Red (fancy), Stone Bros. (Nelson) ; modern game bantam, H. R. Baker (Potono); black rosecoigh banlain, IB Simpson (Nelson); Rhode Island Red (utility), Stone Bros. (Nelson).

“That this meeting urges tho neccsdty of convening a conference of the chambers of commerce and progress 'eagues of Invercargill, Gore. Dunedin. Oarnaru, Timaru, and Christchurch to consider tho question of the establishment of a suitable and adequate steamer service between Australia and South Islam} ports, and that a conference bo held in Dunedin,” was the text of a motion carried at a conference of the Southland League and the Invercargill Chamber of Commerce last evening, when they met representatives of the Dunedin Chamber to discuss tho question.