DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 August 1929, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

(Per Press Association

AUCKLAND WOMAN POISONED., AUCKLAND, August 29. Gertrude Taylor, 40, wife of T. B. Taylor, an Auckland pastrycook, died in the hospital from poison taken in mistake for medicine. Two bottles were together on a shelf, and it is presumed that Mrs Taylor took a dose from the wrong bottle in error.

S. AFRICAN WAR VETERANS. WELLINGTON, August 28.

The South African War veterans here passed a resolution affirming the principle of a pension to all South African veterans by right of service, and suggesting representations be made to the Government to place them on the same footing as the Maori War veterans for pension purposes.

THEFT OF FRUIT

HAMILTON, August 27

Though he had £321 in the Savings Bank, George Henry Field, aged twen-ty-five, a hawker, entered the shop of a local Chinese, filled a sack and his pockets with fruit, and ran away when the proprietor appeared. A detective pursued and arrested Field, who was fined £lO this morning, in default one month’s imprisonment.

THEFT CHARGE DISMISSED WELLINGTON, August 27.

Mabel Gladys Hadaway (28) and Edmund Blundell, a salesman (37), appeared on remand from Christchurch before Mr. Page, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court to-day, charged with stealing at Sydney, on July 18, clothing to the value of £2OO, the property of Thomas AVilliam Gladdie Hadaway, of Sydney, husband of the woman.

The Magistrate refused to grant an extradition order, and dismissed the case.

FIRE AT TE KUITI. TE KUITI, August 29

A disastrous fire occurred in King Street just after midnight, when a large wooden' store, owned by Barrand and Abraham, was completely destroyed with all the contents. In front was an iron constructed building, used by Barrand and Abraham as offices, and Ronald Cooke and Company as a grocery shop. This was badly damaged, and the stock destroyed by smoke and water. Part of the wooden building at the back was used by Cooke as a bulk store, and part by Barrand and Abraham. The latters’ stock was valued at about £5OO. Cook’s stock is valued at a much larger sum, but these insurances are not known. The building was insured for £2OOO (New Zealand). The cause of the fire is not known, but is supposed to have started in some packing cases outside the building.