DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 March 1926, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

(Per Press Associ&tivn.) SUNDAY TRAM SERVICE. AUCKLAND, Marih 5. The City Council, by thirteen votes td 'six,” rejected a motion that trams cease running from eleven to noon on Sundays, in consideration of people attending church. EX-SECRETARY’S THEFT. . GISBORNE, March 5. Caleb Charles - Castell, ’ 46, former secretary of the Hydro-Electric Engineering Coy., pleaded guilty to twelve tbarjjes of. theft of money from the company aggregating to £199. Ho was committed to the Supreme- Court for sentence. WIDOW’S CLAIM FAILS . NAPIER, March ». After a retirement of three minutes, '(he jury, in the claim for £5650 by Mis Elcena Agnes Christie Dyett, widow, of Manaia. against Walter Manson, for alleged indecent assault and communication of a certain disease, returned a verdict for defendant, with costs against plaintiff. LICENSE IN OHINEMURI. THAMES, March 3. Twenty-two candidates have been nominated for the five seats on the

Ohinemuri Licensing Committee. The candidates include tjie Mayors of Paeroa and Waihi and representatives of the brewers and the prohibitionists. Extraordinary interest is being shown in the election, and there is strong rivalry among country villages for the right to erect licensed houses following on many years of no-license. P.O. BANK FRAUD. WELLINGTON,' March 5. Frank Cromwell Moore, 18, student, was admitted to probation for two years without special conditions, on a charge of forgery and uttering. The offence was the foifeery, of a savings bank withdrawal slip. He copied the name from a bank book, which was written by a post office official!. He admitted that the book was not his, but said that he had authority to use it, which was untrue. .Suppression of liis name was refused-. FIRE AT AUCKLAND. AUCKLAND, March 5. Fire on the premises at Albert Street occupied by the Reliance Battery Manufacturing Coy., last . night, destroyed .a large quantity of stock, including over a hundred privately owned batteries, and caused considerable damage to the wooden gallery, ceiling and rafters. The flames rose through the roof, ahd Were visible at a great distance on account of the inflammable character of the contents. The stock was insured in the Victoria Company.