DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 August 1933, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[pee press association.] TAWA FLAT DISPUTE. WELLINGTON, August 12. The Public Works employers engaged on the Tawa. Flat deviation works met, in the Trades Hall to discuss the reply bv the Minister of Public Works. Mr. Bitchener, to their request lor extra pay as compensation for striking bad patches of ground. Work on the deviation has been suspended since Thursday.

ESCAPEE CONVICTED. AUCKLAND, August 14. Henry William Charles McKay, 29, to-day, was committed for sentence on a charge of escaping from a train at Mercer on August 5, while being brought to Mt. Eden gaol. The warder said that prisoner’s conduct on the way from Wellington was exemplary, and he gave no sign of an intention to escape. INTOXICATED DRIVER. WELLINGTON, August 12. Pleading guilty before Mr Stilwell, S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court to charges of being intoxicated while in charge of a motor lorry, driving without a license, and failing to have the lorry equipped with efficient brakes, Arnor Gohannas Fagerholm, aged 24, was fined a total of £22, and was prohibited from driving for a period of six months. LICENSEE MISSING DARGAVILLE, August 14. Frederick R. Morrison, fifty-four, licensee of the Northern Wairoa Hotel, well-known in the trade in Whangarei and Auckland, has been missing since eight o’clock on Saturday evening. The police, assisted by a large number of helpers, have been searching diligently since, but no trace was found. Morrison is a veteran of the South African War. He suffered from malaria and had been in indifferent health for some weeks past. RAILWAY REVENUE. WELLINGTON, August 11. The financial results of railway operation for the four-weekly period ended on July 22 show that the gross revenue for the period, compared with the corresponding period last year, represents an increase of £11,853, while the expenditure shows a decrease of C 3784, making an increase in net revenue for the period of £15,637. For the portion of the financial year from April to July 22, the total increase in net revenue was £35,431. The most pleasing feature of the figures, stated Mr. H. H. Sterling, chairman of the Government. Railways Board, is the fact that the increase in gross revenue which has been shown over the previous few periods has been maintained.

SHOPLIFTING CHARGES AUCKLAND, August 12. The Police Court this morning was engaged for some time in hearing a charge of shoplifting against a youngmarried woman. Doris Scott, against whom evidence was given by three sisters Mesdames Annie Anderson and Ada M’Quoid and Miss Olive Scott. One sister said that she saw accused steal an article. Mis M’Quoid admitted that she was on probation for shoplifting herself, and asserted- that accused had “put it across her” on that occasion. The defence asserted that the case was a frame-up. The Magistrate commented that he was suspicious of the evidence. One witness had actually told him that she was anxious to see accused convicted for theft. There was undoubtedly bad feeling, which caused three or four women to play the part of amateur detectives and follow accused in the city. He dismissed the charges.