DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 May 1936, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[pee pbess association.] WAGE CUTS RESTORED. AUCKLAND, May 7. The restoration of cuts as from the beginning of April was announced by the Farmers’ Trading Company, anticipating the Government resoration of wages. This involves a total increase for the company of £17,500 per annum. SEAMEN AND CAR. AUCKLAND, May 7. Two bluejackets from the warship Dunedin, Fred Hawthorne Mallinson, and Albert Dudley Kaye, pleaded guilty to converting a motor car, the property of Walter Broad, at Bluff. The police said the car was taken from outside the theatre. It ran into a ditch and was damaged to the extent of £43. Mr Hunt, S.M., handed the men ovei* to the Naval authorities, to be dealt with. He ordered Kaye to pay £l5 and Mallinson £2B.

FISHERIES DANGER. WELLINGTON, May 6. In reference to the announced intention of a company to supply 300 tons of fish in Sydney and Melbourne each month from a base in Cook Strait, Mr. Hefford, Chief Inspector of Fisheries, expressed a doubt if tire New Zealand waters could stand up to such a drain for more than a short time. Ho stressed the danger of overexploitation. There was no evidence of New Zealand waters abounding in fish in comparison with what is known of the productiveness of other fishing regions in the world.

DOUBTFUL JOKE. AUCKLAND, May 7. “You know I am too old a hand to believe, your story that it was all a joke.” said Mr Hunt, S.M., to Newell Harry Williams, watersider, who appeared on summons, and pleaded not guilty to a charge of stealing a carton of toothpaste, valued at £2/(>/-, the property of the Union Company. A wharf clerk gave evidence that he saw accused carry the carton away from the steamer Wingatui, a distance of about forty feet. When told to put the carton back, he did so.

Accused was fined £2, with costs 12/-.

“Despite the leniency shown in this Court, pillaging still goes on in Auckland,” said Senior Detective Hall.