DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 January 1934, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[FEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.] FREEZING WORKS. CHRISTCHURCH, January 4. Killing was resumed at the freezing works yesterday, when a normal day’s work was put through. The works are not likely to be really busy for a few weeks yet. WELLINGTON FIRE. WELLINGTON, January 4. Fire severely damaged the eightroomed residence of MY Percival Lewis Brady, boot ajud shoe merchant, at 37, North Terrace, Kelburn, this evening. Two neighbouring houses were threatened for a time. The outbreak occurred during the occupants’ absence. CHINESE MISSING TIMARU, January 5. Wong Chun Loi, Chinese fireman, aged twenty-one, on the Benreoch, went ashore yesterday afternoon to buy tobacco, and had not returned at 8 o’clock, whefi the chief fireman, police and Custom’s officers, and the agent made a systematic but unsuccessful search. Meanwhile, the vessel lay at anchor until 11.15 this forenoon, when she sailed for Dunkirk, the. agent having deposited a bond , of £2OO.

PLUNKET SOCIETY. DUNEDIN, January 3.

With regard to statements which have appeared in the newspapers recently in regard to the affairs of the Plunket Society, it is stated by the vice-president in the absence of the president, that the executive of the New Zealand Council of the Plunket Society is justified in the actions taken and that a meeting of the executive at which members of its advisory board will be present will be held in Dunedin on Tuesday next, when its consideration will be given to the matter of protests by some of the branches.

BOOKMAKERS FINED AUCKLAND, January 5. Basil John Bishop and Harry Syred were fined £2O and £25 respectively, today, for bookmaking. “Counsel has referred to it as a game,” said the magistrate (Mr. Wyvern Wilson). “It is not a game. It is a crime. Bookmaking in this country is a crime.” Counsel: The Post Office officials apparently do not think so. Mr. Wilson: I am not the guardian of the Post Office. I am here to see the law enforced. SCOW STRANDED. CHRISTCHURCH. - January 4. The auxiliary scow Ngahau, which has recently been making frequent trips from the bays with cargoes of lambs for Kaiapoi, left Little Akaroa yesterday at 5.30 and was expected off the mouth of the river at Kaiapoi about 8 o’clock. When, however- the vessel was not sighted by 8.30 the lights on the beacons, were extinguished, as it was thought that she had sheltered.

The Ngahau arirved off the bar at 9 o’clock, Which is three hours after high tide, and tried to come up as she had a cargo of lambs. She passed the south spit safely and came into the river, when she struck on the north spit, where (he Roxton went, aground. No difficulty should be experienced in getting her off.