DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 January 1928, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

(Per Presu Association.) LOST CHILD FOUND. TAUMARUNUI, January 17. Ellis Gray, the six-year-old child, who was missing from Mangapeehi, was located yesterday at Kopaki, six miles from her home, none the worse for her experience. HOUSE ON FIRE. AUCKLAND, January 17. A six-roomed house at Penrose, owned by K. McKinnon, was destroyed by fire at 4.30 this morning. He had just time to arouse his wife and two children. All escaped in their night attire. The house was insured for £6OO. BRIDGE COLLAPSES. NAPIER, January 17. The Waitangi Traffic Bridge, on the Main South Road, collapsed under the weight of two heavily laden motor lorries this morning. The extent of the damage is unknown. All traffic is diverted inland, aciding six miles to the route. RAILWAY ENGINES COLLIDE ’ DUNEDIN, January 17. Two railway engines drawing empty cars, collided at Rattray Street crossing, and traffic south was held up for half an hour. Both engines were considerably damaged, the tender of one being stove in. Two empty passengercars were badly knocked about. One was derailed. TUNNEL WORKERS’ DISPUTE. WELLINGTON, January 14. As the result of a. further conference between the contractors and the men’s representatives in the Tawa Flat trouble a decision has been made to submit the points in dispute, chiefly wages, to a tribunal consisting of two men appointed by the employers and two representatives of the Labour movement, with an independent chairman, probably Mr E. C. Page, S.M. CHINESE GAMBLERS. WELLINGTON, January 14. Several houses in Haining Street, in which it was suspected pak-a-poo tickets were being sold, were raided by the police yesterday. Ten Chinese and seven Europeans appeared in Court to-day to answer charges of keeping conjmon gamblinghouses or being found on such premises. Six of the Chinese pleaded guilty to keeping premises for the sale of pak-a-poo tickets, and were each fined £lO in default one month’s imprisonment. Lo Kum, however, who had three previous convictions, was fined £5O, in default three month’s imprisonment. Six- Europeans were each fined £2 on admitting have been on gaming premises illegally, but Frederick Williams, aged 64, who chose -to go into the witness box, was fined £5. One Chinese escaped with a £5 fine, although the Magistrate said that he narrowly escaped a conviction for assisting to keep the place.