DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 May 1935, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[per peess association.]

WROTE ON FOOTPATH. DUNEDIN, May 24

In the Police Court, to-day., a mining engineering student, Alexander i - Clure, aged 23, was charged with writing on the footpath. The police stated that the defendant, who had Communistic leanings, wrote in chalk a notice to workers to demonstrate on May Day. In describing the defendant’s action as that of a boy, the Magistrate dismissed the charge, subject to the payment of costs.

LIVE STOCK EMBARGO. AUCKLAND, May 24

A motion in favour of lifting the embargo on the direct importation of live stock from Great Britain, was defeated by one vote at the annual conference. of the Auckland Provincial Council of the Agricultural and Pastoral Associations. The voting was: For 5, against G. Six members did not vote. Two members, the President, Mr S. Austin Carr (Auckland), and Mr C. P,, Butler (Whangarei) explained that they voted against the motion in their capacity as delegates of- their Associations, although personally they were in favour of the lifting of the embargo.

LOCAL BODY DEBENTURES. WELLINGTON, May 24

With reference to the Christchurch local body debentures deadlock recorded in a Press Association message from Christchurch, an insurance officer, interviewed here, stated that as far as his office was concerned, it had been found, under the practice of handing over the old debentures, that it was sometimes three and four months before the new ones were received. Another point was that it had been found that some local bodies did not prepare the new debentures correctly, and that when received, they were not in order. Therefore, his office would prefer to have an opportunity of inspecting the new debentures, and checking them. When debentures were not in order, a delay was caused. In nearly all cases, local bodies had agreed to new debentures being sent in for checking before the old ones were sent out.