DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 June 1936, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[per press association.] LEG CRUSHED CHRISTCHURCH, June 17. N. W. Noonan, Pavitt Street, Richmond, had his left leg crushed by a bogey wheel at the Addington Workshops this afternoon. He was conveyed to the Christchurch Public Hospital. THEFT OF CAR. TAIHAPE, June 17. Ronald Victor Sutton, aged 19, pleaded guilty to-day, before Justices, to the theft from the main street in Taihape, of a motor-car owned by a sheep-farmer, David Scott. The police traced the car to a shed 30 miles from Taihape. They found it had been repainted blue over red. Accused was committed to Wanganui for sentence. THEFT CHARGE.

NEW PLYMOUTH, June 18. A reported burglary at Westown yesterday, was followed in the late afternoon by the arrest of a married woman, aged about 42, who appeared before a J.P. this morning, charged with breaking and entering a house and the theft of a gold watch, bedclothes, crockery and other articles, of a total value of £5. The police intimated that other charges were pending, and accused, for whom bail was not asked, was remanded till Julyl, the Bench agreeing to suppress her name. LIVE STOCK EMBARGO. PALMERSTON NORTH, June 17. The intensive competition from Australia and Argentine in meat export was cited by speakers at. the annual meeting of the Hereford Chttle Breeders’ Association, as an argument why New Zealand should take steps to have the embargo against the direct importation of live stock from Britain lifted. A motion favouring the lifting was carried. Officers were elected as follow: — President, F. E. Humphreys. Treasurer, E. E. Short. Council members, E. Jefferson, W. K. Morton, D. Tynan, W. B. White.

The Red Poll Breeders re-elected Sir Heaton Rhodes as Patron, J. W. Harding as President, and W. Leask, G. R. Forster Pratt, G. McLeod, and H. G. Bryant as members of the Council.

N.I. RAINS PALMERSTON N„ June 17. Following heavy rain in Hawke’s Bay the Manawatu River rose rapidly overnight from the comparatively low winter level of 2ft to 14ft 9in by eleven | o’clock to-day, threatening to inundate ' all low-lying land in the vicinity of Tiakitahuna and Rangiotu, which area suffered extensively in past floods. Settlers this morning began to remove stock. There is still a gap of three chains wide in the protective banking at Hamilton’s Bend, a danger spot in the river. With the river continuing to rise it may go across country and make the main Palmerston North-Fox-ton highway impassable.

Two small slips and one large slip which came down north of Mangaweka early this morning caused a delay of over three hours to the south-bound Limited express. The train was held at Taihape from 4 a.m. till 7 a.m. till the line was clear. The south-bound air-liner was delayed at Milson to enable passengers by the Limited to join the machine.