IN OTHER CENTRES

Evening Star, Issue 21628, 25 January 1934, Page 12

IN OTHER CENTRES

■COMMON GAMING HOUSE. A Wellington message states that Vincent Hickey pleaded guilty in the Police Court to-day to using a shop as a common gaming house, and was fined £25. Stanley Findlay, who admitted assisting in the management of the premises, was similarly fined. RAILWAY FATALITY. A railway guard* Thomas Williams, middle-aged, married, with a wife and two daughters, was run over and killed instantly at 12.25 to-day at the Taihape station. He got off a south-bound goods train to adjust a disc at the rear of the guard’s van, and the train suddenly shunted and knocked him down, the wheels going over the body. The van was derailed. There were no witnesses of the accident.—Taihape message. GRADING OF PIGS. ' A large representative meeting of pig breeders and curers, including officials from Waikato, carried a resolution requesting the Government to undertake the .grading of all pigs for local consumption and export, the charges to be made for this service in the same way as for- dairy produce (says a Palmerston North message). Several speakers described the present grading methods as haphazard and lacking in uniformity. A deputation was set up to interview the Pig Advisory Committee with a view of later approaching the Minister cf Agriculture.