DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 February 1932, Page 9

DOMINION ITEMS

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] ABANDONED BABY WELLINGTON, February 15. The hearing of a case, in the Magistrate’s Court against Ivy Thelma Leigh, aged 23, who was charged with unlawfully abandoning a child, under the age of two years at Khandallah on February 9, was adjourned until February 24. The accused was admitted to bail in own bond of £25 and one surety of £25. COMMUNIST’S CONVICTION. WELLINGTON, February 16. Mr. Page, S.M., to-day, refused to grant a rehearing of the case in which William O’Reilly was sentenced to three months’ for intimidating relief workers at Hataitai. Application was made on the ground that there was further evidence available in his favour, but Mr. Page was of the opinion that this could not affect the result. Security fpr appeal was fixed at £25.

SAFE STOLEN

WELLINGTON, February 15.

Thieves entered the Wakefield Street premises of the New Zealand Used Car Mart and carried away the safe. The thieves apparently sawed through a padlock on the outei- door, gained access to the office, removed the safe weighing about four or five hundredweight. It contained about £l6 in cash, and about £2OO in promissory notes, also about £7O in 'cheques, in addition to the firm’s 'books, the loss of which is even more serious than that of the money.

SUDDEN DEATHS. CHRISTCHURCH, February 15.

Miss Bessie Hocking, aged about 53 years, a member of the staff of the People’s Palace Private Hotel, in Manchester Street, died suddenly early this afternoon. She expired while sitting at a table. She had not complained of any illness prior to her death-

An inquest was opened this afternoon into the death of Gladys Isabel Morrison, single, aged 22 years. Miss Morrison who resided with relatives at 65, Kingsley Street, died suddenly at her home at 10.45 a-m. to-day.

NEWSPAPER PROPRIETORS. AUCKLAND, February 15

The annual conference of the •Newspaper Proprietors, attended by delegates from all parts of New Zealand, was opened in Auckland to-day. The deliberations of the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association were presided over by the President, Mr C. W. Earle, of Wellington, and a meeting of Directors of the United Press Association was held under the chairmanship of Mr A. M. Burns, of Christchurch. The day’s proceedings were brought to a close with a meeting of the General Committee of the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association.

SURF RESCUE

CHRISTCHURCH, February 15.

James Kean, aged 17, a grocer’s assistant, who rescued Beatrice Doris Stevens from the surf at New Brighton on Sunday, and recovered from the breakers the dead body of her husband, Harold Percy Stevens, was praised for his prompt action' by Magistrate Mosley at the inquest to-day. “You are to be congratulated on your good sense and on the brave way in which you faced danger in going to the woman’s rescue, and in attempting the rescue of the man,” said Mr Mosley. “We are proud to have young men of Kean’s good sense and ability as members of the community.”

RURAL CREDIT.

WELLINGTON, February 16.

The monthly meeting of the Rural Intermediate Credit Board, reported there was a possibility of a co-opera-tive Rural Intermediate Credit Association being formed in the Coromandel district, with headquarters at Coromandel.

The association was in course of formation in the Thames Valley and this should be in a position to serve the peninsula. Commissioner presented a return of arrears in interest and instalments as at December 31. The position disclosed was regarded as satisfactory, and was subject of favourable comment. Only a small portion of the production season had passed, when the return was prepared, it was considered that the arrears should be further reduced by repayments during the remainder of the season. It was reported that the Board had continued to find it necessary to grant a number of concessions to borrowers who had not been- able to meet, commitments in full, but these had applied almost exclusively to principal repayments, and borrowers had in almost all cases been able to pay interest on loans. The volume of applications for loans had shown a decline during the production season, as had been the case in the previous years. With the close of the production season, it is anticipated that the flow of applications would materially increase.