TELEGRAMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 July 1918, Page 2

TELEGRAMS

DOMINION ITEMS.

(Per Press Association.)

PROHIBITED PUBLICATION

WELLINGTON, July 24.—A Gazette notifies that the Attorney General has prohibited the sale of the pamphlet called "Gold for Iron," purporting to be issued by the Auckland branch of a Society known as the Fellowship of Reconciliation. DROWNING FATALITY. DUNEDIN, This Day—Chas. Meclder (35), head fisherman at Seacliff Mental Hospital, was drowned on Wednesday at Ivaritane tlirougli his boat capsizing on the bar. A heavy sea was running. Christian Stefi'enseii, who was also in the boat, managed to get ashore after being one hour in the water. FALSE! DECLAR ATI OX. MASTER.TOX, July 24.—A ; «ang woman named Violet Ilonkins pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court this morning to making a false declaration under the Marriage Act, and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. A member of the Expeditionary Force named Percy John HcpKins pleaded guilty to causing a false declaration to be made. He also was committed for sentence. The young woman. who is the daughter of a Mangamahoe settler, declared before the Registrar that she was twenty-one years of age, whereas she was only sixteen.

AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION. WELLINGTON, This Day.—The nnnual meeting of the New Zealand Automobile Club agreed that the roads of the Dominion should be mode and maintained at part cost of those using .such roads, and those owning the lands whose value is incieased or maintained by the existence oi' such roads, and by the Government. It was resolved also that the main or arterial roads of the Do minion be managed and controlled by a non-political National Read Board, that the several classes of ratepayers of those roads have first representations on such boards. A committee was appointed to arrange a, conference with the representatives of the Counties Conference and Good Roads Association, with a view of discussing about the resolution.