DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 September 1933, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[FEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.]

STUDENT’S INJURIES. DUNEDIN, September 16. The University student who was charged with the theft and mutilation of books in the Athenaeum had to be removed to hospital last night. He was found with a cut on his wrist from a jagged piece of glass from the cell window, and was suffering from loss of blood.

PRICE OF PETROL. WELLINGTON, September 15. After being sold at 1/9 and 1/7 a gallon for 17 days, the retail price of | motor spirit will return to-morrow to the former prices 1/10 for first grade, and 1/9 for second grade—according to the decision of a meeting of Wellington retailers to-day. COUNTERFEIT COINS DUNEDIN, September 18. Apparatus for the manufacture of counterfeit coins and spurious florins, were found yesterday, when detectives raided a house at Kew. The occupant Robt Stanley McCausland was arrested and charged this morning and remanded lor a week in custody. Tthe police said the accused had made a statement admitting the manufacture of counterfeit coins. McCausland is married with seven children. According to counsel, the family had been living in almost destitute circumstances.

SUB-DIVISION DISPUTE. ROTORUA, September 15. A writ claiming alleged negligence in legalising a proposed sub-divisional plan to-day was served upon the Mayor of Rotorua, Mr T. Jackson, bn behalf of Albert George Cottrell. The claimant alleged that although the necessary resolution had. . been passed bv the borough council, it had wrongfully neglected to furnish the necessary information to the Public Works ’Department over a period of five months, with the result that the plaintiff lost a sale of the land, and suffered damage. The-matter was recently discussed at some length by the council in committee, and has been set down for hearing at the next sitting of the Supreme-Court at Hamilton.

JOURNALISTS’ ASSN. CHRISTCHURCH, September IS

The twenty-first annual conference of the New Zealand Journalists’ Association resolved that the headquarters remain at Auckland for the coming- year. Officers were elected:—President, J. W. L. Willett; Vice-Presi-dent, R. A. Kenner; Secretary, G. L. Stanbrook; Treasurer, T, Clarkson; Trustees, A. F. Grace, and G. F. Inglis; Auditors, E. C. Franklin and H. C. Newell. It was resolved to recommend branches to endeavour to secure additional facilities for young journalists to attend University lectures, particularly those leading up to the Diploma in Journalism. A proposal for establishing branch libraries of works upon journalism, and related subjects, was also approved.

INTOXICATED DRIVER. WELLINGTON, September 18. James Douglas Nelson, traveller, Dunedin, was fined £2O by Mr Stillwell, S.M., for being in a state of intoxication when in charge, of a motorCounsel said that defendant s state of intoxication was probably due not to the amount of liquor taken, but to his physical condition, as he was overtired after, a very heavy week. Th© Magistrate said he would not cancel th©, license because the car was necessary to defendant’s livelihood, but he wanted to impress on him that whatever his previous good record, at the time he was driving he was just as big a menace as any other person, who had liquor, and was in charge of a car.