DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 March 1934, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

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bookmaker fined WANGANUI, March 17. Mr. Salmon, S.M., fined Bernard Francis Corrigan £lOO, for keeping a common gaming house, his third conviction. For assisting in the conduct of the premises, Vincent Hickey was fined £3O and Thomas Arnold Bowen £2O.

COOK’S DEATH NAPIER, March 19.

Harry Capewell, aged 63, was charged with murdering John Williams at Porangahau on March 11, and was remanded for one week, the police stating that their inquiries were not complete.

GISBORNE SWORDFISH. GISBORNE, March 18. While a local fisherman named Keith Walters was engaged operating a few miles off Gisborne, on Saturday, he landed a swordfish weighing 310 pounds. The fish put up a magnificent fight. It was 48 inches round the girth, and 10 feet from the tip of the sword to the tail. This is the flist swordfish caught off Gisborne.

WAIKATO WINTER. HAMILTON, March 17.

After wet and uncongenial summer weather, Hamilton is experiencing an early winter, which was introduced by a succession of light frosts of from one to four degrees. Late crops and gardens have suffered. In marked incongruity, fires are raging at Rukuhia in a peat swamp five miles away. A heavy pall of smoke has replaced the frosts, and a bleak fog glare at night provides a magnificent spectacle. Property has not been damaged by the fires.

G B SHAW’S PROGRAMME. AUCKLAND, March 18. Mr George Bernard Shaw and Mrs Shaw plan to leave Auckland on Tuesday, on a motor tour of tourist resorts. Mr Shaw met a number of Labour officials to-day at Auckland, and he was the guest of the Fabian Club also yesterday. Both functions were private. Mr and Mrs Shaw will go to the Waitomo Caves on Tuesday. They will next day proceed to Rotorua, staying there for over a week. Then they will leave for Wellington via Wairakei, The Chateau and Wanganui. After ’spending several days at Wellington, they may cross to Picton and Nelson, returning by the same route to Wellington, for a few days, before joining the Rangitane for England on April 3. His limited time will not permit Mr Shaw to visit Christchurch and other southern places. He will probably give a broadcast address before leaving Wellington.

UNIVERSITY AWARDS. WELLINGTON, March 17.

The following further awards have been made by a special committee of the New Zealand University Senate: 1851 Exhibition Scholarship and the Post-graduate Science Scholarship.—T. E. Easterfield (Canterbury) and H. Service (Otago). Final decision is reserved for the Royal Commissioners. Post-graduate Scholarships in Art. — L. W. A. Cawley (Auckland), C. J. Seelye (Victoria). Free Passages—H. P. Donald (Canterbury Agricultural College), H. R. Minn (Otago), C. J. Seelye (Victoria). The fourth award is being withheld pending a decision on the science scholarships.

Cook Memorial Prize (Mathematics) —T. E. Easterfield (Canterbury). Sir James G. Wilson’s Prize for Agriculture—E. A. Clarke (Massey Agricultural College). Schlich Memorial Prize for Forestry —J. W. Syme (Canterbury).