DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 December 1928, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS

IPer Press Association.) YOUTH’S THEFTS. AUCKLAND, December 4. At the Magistrate’s Court Roy Taylor, aged seventeen and a-half years, admitted fourteen daylight robberies from houses in Epsom, Mount Eden, and Remuera districts in the past few mouths. He was sent to the Borstal Institute for three years.

WORKER KILLED.

WHANGAREI, December 4.

As the result of a fall of earth, Frank Nortman, a Dalmatian, aged 25, residing at Whangarei Falls, was admitted to hospital in a dying condition. He was suffering from severe injuries to the spine and a fracture of the right thigh, and he died shortly after admission. J

TEA ROOMS ON FIRE. HAMILTON, December 5.

Fire totally destroyed premises used as tea rooms at Arapuni township at 2.30 this morning. Mrs E. Gibbs, the occupier of the building, and her son, James Gibbs, had barely time to es- >

cape. Nothing was saved. The loss is computed at £2OOO, and is £3OO above the amount of the insurance. The building was owned by Mr E. J. Darby, of Arapuni.

NURSE’S FALL. PALMERSTON N., December 5. An accident involving serious injury to Miss G. Witheron, an Auckland. Hospital nurse, who was visiting her sister at Palmerston North Hospital, occurred this morning, when she fell from the roof of a portico through the glass skylight of an adjacent verandah to the ground, twenty feet below. She received immediate surgical attention, and her condition this evening is satisfactory.

BUSHMAN KILLED TE KUITI, Dec. 5.

A middle-aged, married man, Jack Sorensen, was killed while working in the bush two miles from Pask’s mill, at Kopaki, this morning. It appears that Sorensen, a mill employee, was working some distance from his mates and was engaged in breaking out a heavy log, which fell on the deceased, inflicting a mortal injury to his head. Nobody witnessed the accident, but the man’s mates came up' immediately the log rolled, and found Sorensen had met with instantaneous death. The body is. being brought to Te Kuiti to-

day, where an inquest will be held. The deceased belonged to Auckland.

DIVORCE AND CHILDREN.

HAMILTON, December 4. “I look upon the welfare of the children as being more important than ; the quarrels of the parents,” said Mr.. Justice Blair in hearing the divorce suit of Dennis Rolls, a railway employee, against May Rolls. . -

“I don’t like the casual manner in which the matter of the children is dealt with in many of these - cases,” said the Judge. “Before I ntake a decree I want to know what arrange- >• ments will be madei with regard to the future of the children.”

His Honor adjourned the case for fuller information regarding Rolls’s three children..

.... SAFE ROBBERY. PALMERSTON N., December 6. During the last week-end, the premises of Christie, Tobacconist, Rangitikei Street, were broken into, and the safe, containing a considerable sum of money, was removed, in addition to a large quantity of stock. .. ;

This morning, Detective Barling arrested James Morton McGill, 26, car ' salesman, of Dannevirke, who was charged with breaking and entering the premises and removing therefrom the safe containing £44 in cash, and £23 in cheques.-

On accused being remanded to December 14, counsel applied for bail, which Senior-Detective Quirk opposed. The safe, he said, had not yet been . traced. The principal evidence against accused at present were finger prints - found on the premises. The Bench re- . fused bail. J

PRISONERS SENTENCED NEW PLYMOUTH, December 4.

Indecent assault on a girl on a lone-

ly road near Hawera was the offence for which Samuel Wilson, aged 22, was sentenced to one year’s reformative detention, in the Supreme Court to-day before Mr Justice Smith.

Arthur Edward Belk, for forgery and attempted uttering, received six months’ imprisonment.

Guilty of four charges of forgery and three of uttering, David George Stella was given reformative detention for two years.

Colin Bert Mills, aged 21, made a false declaration regarding the age of his bride to the Registrar. He was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within six months and to pay costs. Suppression of his name was refused.

A true bill was returned against Wil-

liam Draper on charges of forging and acting upon Post Office Savings Bank slips, the amount involved being £l5O. The trial was adjourned till February. Suppression of his name was again refused.