DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 July 1936, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.]

SEDDON WATER SUPPLY. BLENHEIM, July 23.

A poll was carried at Seddon yesterday to raise a loan of £26,000 to instal a high pressure water scheme, serving the township of Seddon and 20,000 acres of adjacent farmland. The scheme is estimated to cost £40,000. The Government is providing £16,000 by way of cash grant and relief labour. Water wilf be brought a. distance of 11 miles from the Birch stream, a tributary of the Awatere River. j The construction of the pipe line involves crossing the Awatere.

RAILWAY MISHAP

WELLINGTON, July 23

The derailment, of a van in the Johnsonville railway yard prevented the Limited express from using its usual route to-night, and the train left via the Tawa Flat deviation nearly two hours late. Night goods trains have used the new line for many months and rail-cars occasionally, but this was the first time travellers by regular trains have been over the new route.

The accident which caused the delay happened on a track parallel to the main line. An emtpy van swung across the tracks and projected over the main line sufficiently to prevent its use.

ANONYMOUS LETTERS WELLINGTON, July 24

“I receive numerous anonymous letters complaining about the conduct of licensed houses. ' said the Magistrate. (Mr. Mosley), in Court to-day, when hearing a charge against John Oken Clay, licensee of the Western Park Hotel, of selling liquor after hours. “There is only one place for anonymous letters, and that is the waste-paper basket. Still, some notice has to be taken of complaints regarding relatives and friends going into hotels after nours, and coming home drunk, and I am compelled to take notice of them. Unfortunately, this is one of the hotels with regard to which these complaints have been made. I am not taking the slightest consideration of these complaints in this case. It would not be fair, but 1 wish the licensee to know what is happening.” A fine of £lO with costs was imposed.

DEPORTATION REQUESTED PALMERSTON N„ July 24

Unusual features marked the closing stages of a case in the Supreme Court, when accused, John Edward Owens, an American, who had been found guilty on two charges, appealed to Mr. Justice Blair for deportation to his homeland.

The Judge said he would be charmed to make the order for deportation, but did not have the power to do so. He said that accused had been in prison most of the time since he arrived in New Zealand in 1929, and had easily qualified to be declared an habitual criminal.

Accused was remanded to Wellington for sentence. The Judge promised to make representations to the authorities in Wellington, for accused’s deportation. The charges on which accused was found guilty were of obtaining money and credit by fraud.

WOMAN ACCUSED. NAPIER, July 24.

The hearing of five charges of using an illegal instrument, against a Hastings woman, Isabel Annie Aves, alias Craike, was commenced to-day. It was stated by Inspector Fitzpatrick that the offences to which the charges related were similar in character. While digging on accused’s property, the police had discovered the bodies of two infant children, and the remains of about twenty others. The names of some girl witnesses were suppressed. A single girl gave evidence as to the success of an operation performed by accused. She was told to leave the premises, as a police visit was pending. A taxi-driver stated that be drove the previous witness to Dannevirke from accused’s home.

Dr. Dawson confirmed the fact of delivery, which probably occurred a week before his examination of the witness.

A photographer, Wallace Poll, gave evidence as to taking a photograph of holes dug by the police, and certain exhibits removed therefrom.