DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 May 1925, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS

' t Per press association.) ■- ■ V _. ' r,- * DEATH IN STREET. i; DUNEDIN, May 13. Eayly this afternoon, George Me* .’Millan, aged 70, fell dead in the street, at Morniiigtoity, but? as igal certificate as to., the cause of death is available, an inquest' is unnecessary YOUTH’S. THEFT. GISBO’RNE, May 13. , At. the Magistrate’s Court,-to-day a fifteen-year-old .youth- appeared before the juvenile Court charged with the theft; of £l,B from a dwelling nouse. He wns sentenced to three years’ refprm.ativQ .detention in- Invercargill Borstal Institute. ' ;i - $ LITTLE GIRL KILLED. I •;>- HASTINGS-,-May 12.. A yttle girl,' -Joyce Sorensen,- 21 years old,‘ ; da-tighter of -,Mr-Jen-s -Sorem sen, ;> sheep-farmer, Manga talii, was. killedi this morning. She was swinging on a gate;! and the strainer holding the gate -Was 'rotten at:.the .bottom? and the extra weight- cahsed'-it to ,fall on the child, -who -‘fras’.'picked, up dead about ted‘iilinutes afterwards. Ul SCHOOL ATTENDANCE. ‘ . It !-! -WELLINGTON; Maj' Although -'-til’d -epidemic' restrictions have,; been lifted, it is not at present conijtiulsory for parents io send their children to school.-’ -The’•Minister ,: fbi' Education (the. FJbn. ; Sir Jahies'Part) has been advised that some parents are taking "undue advantage of '-tltife, 'and allowing their children to evade school without good reason. *>■ Sir, Janies .Parr will bring the matter before Cabinet with a-view to having the old;(order reverted to,’ if'the Health Department considbu that advisable. ■ 1 ‘ ’

SHOP HOURS. ~ ' ' 'DUNEDIN,- May 12 The Ar bit ration- .Court'’' wa si -.occ.up. ed ’during the day. hearing 89 applications, from small., shopkeepers for exemption front the hours, clause;of"the-.Diiiiedin Grocers’ Award/ A' ’petition ,’behririg T 378. names was handed ’ in on’ bblialf of the ■ recently formed Small ‘Shopkeepers' Association. , Mr Justice Frazer 'explained 1 ' the legal position of the awards arid the principle of exemption at length, -and stated that it was the desire of the Court to protect small suburban, business, s from the unfair competition of “mosquito” shops. CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER. 1 AUCKLAND, May M2. Tn the Supreme Court, Stanley. 1 Alfred Rule was charged with ■■ man? slaughter'on January 16. having-killed Esther Mary Watts, and that he negligently drove a vehicle. .- i Joseph Landon, farmer, deposed that at 8 pan., he was driving in * Ma'nakau Road” and stopped at a boardinghouse in Manakau Road. Deceased, who was a passenger in his car, got out and walked across the street. She was struck by a motor-bus and received injuries from which she died. Frank Burnside, who witnessed the occurrence, said he took particular ho, tice of the speed of the ’bus, and described it as'terrific and dangerous. FERRY TICKET FRAUDS. M WELLINGTON, May 13. At Shore’s trial, the jury returned at 7.45 pan., after an absence of an .hour and twenty minutes, and brought in a verdict of guilty on the count of stealing, but the jury was unable to specify a definite amount. On the second count of conspiracy to defraud the Eastbourne ‘Council, the jury found the prisoner guilty, but added that there was great laxity in the methods,’of supervising the check tickets during the tiirie of the frauds. Sentence was fdetorrM? v * ■ " WELLINGTON, May 14. George Nelson .Shore, who was found guilty of theft of money, 1 the property of the Eastbourne i Borough; was sentenced to reformative detention for a pericd not exceeding two years. ~’k*> >L- -