DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 August 1930, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] ESCAPEE STILL FREE. CHRISTCHURCH, August 12. Despite a continuous search by the police, Timothy Edward Cosgrove who escaped from Paparua Prison on Friday evening, is still uncaptured.. PAHIATUA BURGLARY. PAHIATUA, August 11. Mr P. E. Dinfield’s stationery and fancy goods shop was burgled during the week-end. Entrance was gained by the back door. A quantity of goods was disarranged, and about £2O worth of articles were taken. DAIRY FARM FIRE. PAHIATUA, August 11. Mr George T. Scales, of Ruawhata, a dairy farmer, sustained a severe loss through the destruction by fire of his milking plant, implements and other accessories stored in the milking shed.

’’LAUNCH SAFE. AUCKLAND, August 11. The launch Nicloa, which was telegraphed yesterday as missing, is safe. News reached the police to-night that the launch put into a bay near Clevedon. Both men aboard are safe.

SAFE ROBBED.

DANNEVIRKE, August 12

A burglary occurred last night at Yates’ cash store, High Street. The thief entered the back door, opened a small safe, and extracted the day’s takings, about £34 in cheques and cash, and, in addition, took some thousands of cigarettes.

POSTAL EMPLOYEE’S OFFENCE. HAWERA, August 11.

A yojith, previously employed at the Manaia Post Office, pleaded guilty before Justices at the Manaia Court to day to a charge of having secreted 75 printed booklets addressed through the post to persons in the district. He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence, his name being suppressed.

BEQUEST TO CHURCH DUNEDIN, August 9.

Under the will of Margaret Mills, the sum of £5OO has been left to the Roman Catholic Bishop to assist students entering the priesthood and a similar sum has been left for founding a scholarship for boys attending the Christian Brothers’ School.

OLD SCHOOL ABLAZE. ASHBURTON, August 12.

Willowby school, a two-roomed wooden building, was destroyed by .fire last evening. Fires had been used in the grates during the day, but all were out when the mistress left. The building was 54 years old, and was first built on the south side of Ashburton river. This is the second small school in the country burned this winter.

NELSON GIRLS’ COLLEGE. NELSON, August 11.

At a largely attended meeting of the old girls of Nelson College, it was decided to commemorate its jubilee in December, 1932, by a series of gatherings. As the college hoarding establishment has been in existence since the foundation of the school, and as pupils have come from various parts of New Zealand during that time, they realised that there must now be some thousands of old girls scattered throughout the Dominion, and an effort is being-made to find the addresses of all the old girls and invite them to Nelson for a week’s festivities. If the plans materialise, as expected, it is anticipated that the gathering will be unique in the history of the Dominion.

PLUNKET SOCIETY’S GRANT. WELLINGTON, August 12

A strong protest against the curtailments made in the vote towards the work of the Plunket Society was made by a deputation from the Dominion Council to Messrs Forbes and Stallworthy to-day.

Mr gprbes said that in ordinary circumstances the Plunket Society vote would be the last one that would be cut down, but at the present moment, there was a call for economy all round. He was not certain yet how the House would receive his proposhls for raising extra 'revenue. Mr Stallworthy said that it was not correct to assume that the Society had been deprived of £6OOO. As a matter of fact, the shortage was only £l9OO, and it was possible that the amount would he made up in the Supplementary Estimates.