DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 June 1935, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.] UNREGISTERED PRESS. WELLINGTON, May 31. Having not realised the necessity of re-regitsering a press when a partnership was turned into a company, Hutcheson, Bowman and Johnson were fined the minimum penalty of £5 at the Magistrate’s Court.

FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE NEW PLYMOUTH, May 31. Opposition to the lifting of the embargo on the importation of livestock from Britain was expressed by a large majority in a resolution passed by the North Taranaki Conference of the Farmers’ Union, representing thirty branches. The meeting went further, and suggested the complete prohibition of importation.

MOTORIST ACQUITTED. HASTINGS, May 31.

On the direction of Mr. Justice Blair, the jury in the Supreme Court at Napier, without retiring, acouitted Arnold Loader on a charge taht on or about January 24, 1935, he negligently drove a motor truck and caused the death of a young girl, named Helen Amy Catei. The charge was the sequel to a fatal accident at Whakatu.

UNSTAMPED RECEIPTS. WELLINGTON, May 31. A man named Roberts was fined. £2 by the Magistrate on a charge of dividing a sum of money paid to him, so as to avoid the payment of stamp duty, and was fined 10s on each of four charges of delivering an unstamped receipt. The amounts were in respect of a tenancy at Seatoun, kept on a weekly basis, but paid monthly.

AUCKLAND HARBOUR. AUCKLAND, May 31.

The unusual spectacle of being able to see two vessels manoeuvring in a fog to avoid a collision was presented several times on the harbour today. There have been several early morning and evening fogs lately, but it is many months since one has persisted throughout the day. The chief delay to shipping was that caused to the steamer Port Darwin, which was due from Napier at 9 a.m., but did not berth until 4.30 p.m. « ORGY IN KILN* WELLINGTON, May. 31. Found without lawful excuse in the kiln of the Amalgamated Brick and Tile Coy., Rolleston Street, after midnight, six men were ©ach sentenced to three month's’ hard labour. They were William Adolphus Cunningham, 51, wool classer; Albert Henry O’Malley, 42, labourer; Patrick Jepson, 43, labourer; Charles Peter Kenny, 43, painter; Francis Warnes Fry, 51, engineer. Evidence showed there were .signs about of men having been consuming methylated spirits.

CONVERTING MOTOR-CARS PALMERSTON N„ May 31.

Two boys, each aged 161 years, were ordered by the Magistrate to be placed under Uie care of the Child Welfare Department and taken to Weraroa Training Farm, when they appeared in the Juvenile Court jointly charged with 12 offences, including five of converting motor-cars to their own use at Palmerston North and the surrounding district. These were the boys who were arrested at Opiki a week ago, when attempting to start a car which had been unlawfully removed from a city street.