DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 February 1935, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS

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HAIRDRESSER SUED. WELLINGTON, February 26. Mr Stillwell, S.M., reserved his decision in a case in which Mrs violet Eveline Towers seeks £5O damages from Ivan Barbaric Riche, trading as the Institute of Hairdressing and Beauty Culture, alleging that her scalp was burnt while having her hair waved at defendant’s premises. The defence was that there was no evidence that the injuries had been caused by burns, and no evidence of neglect by defendant.

ARSON ADMITTED. BLENHEIM, February 26. As a sequel to an outbreak of fire in the premises of Miss S. L. Elliott, at Havelock, on February 11, when he was caught red-handed by a policeman. in the act of setting the place ablaze William Edward Slattery Coiliss pleaded guilty, this morning, to a charge of arson, and was committed for sentence. In a statement to the police, Corliss said that he had been drinking, and did not know what he was doing. Neither he nor Miss Elliott would have benefited by the fire.

CIVIL ENGINEERS. AUCKLAND, February 26

The twenty-first annual conference of the Now Zealand Society of Civil Engineers was opened to-day by the Mayor (Mr Hutchison). The President. Mr S. Holderness, presided. The report of the Council stated that the total number of members, associates, and students was now 174. It was hoped that a steady improvement in industrial and public finances might enable many qualified engineers, who u’ere not members of the Society, to join it. The number of engineers known to be unemployed was less than last year, but there appeared to be little change in respect of recentlyqualified students, and the more elderly unemployed engineers. The conference will bo continued throughout this week.