DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 May 1930, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[per press association.]

MAIN TRUNK MISHAP. AUCKLAND, May 6

The ordinary Main Trunk express, due at Auckland at 6.41 a.m., ran into a, stationary goods tram at Mercer, early this morning, knocking two wagons off the line. Nobody was injured, but the traffic was dislocated, resulting in passengers arriving in the city after nine o’clock. The Limited express is not expected till about noon (instead of 9.34).

WATCHMAN ASSAULTED. WELLINGTON, May 6

A fine of £lO or a month in gaol, was the penalty inflicted on John James Smith, an American seaman, for assaulting R. Montgomery, nightwatchman, on the steamer Golden Cross. Smith knocked Montgomery down on the wharf, rendering him unconscious. He had to be taken to the hospital for treatment.

TIMBER PROPERTY. WELLINGTON, May 5

A representative meeting of 70 members of the ’Co-operative Dairy Companies interested in the Egmont Box Coy was held at Eltham to-day to consider the action of the Government in permitting the confiscation by the Patea Native Land Board of the Tongariro Timber Company’s timber properties, in which the Box Company is financially interested. A resolution was passed unanimously protesting against such action without submitting the claim to arbitration, as provided in last year’s legislation. A representative deputation was appointed to interview the Government.

CHINESE DEPORTED AUCKLAND, May 3

“This is one of a number of Chinese who were smuggled into the Dominion four years ago from Australia,” said Mr. J. Mclntosh, Collector of Customs, at the Magistrate’s Court this morning, when he prosecuted ChangJoe on a charge of entering New Zealand without a permit. Defendant pleaded guilty. Mr. Mclntosh added that Chang Joe said he paid £l5O to an agent in Australia to get to New Zealand. “We know that some of them have been coming here by such means,” added Mr. Mclntosh.

Chang Joe was fined £lO, and ordered to be deported.