DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 April 1937, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

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INTOXICATED DRIVER.

OAMARU, April 28.

For being intoxicated when driving a car, William J. Dobson, a farmer, Island Cliff, was fined £lO, and bis license was suspended for six months.

ACCUSED CLERK.

WELLINGTON, April 28.

John Arthur Rawden Blandford, 24, law clerk, was again remanded for a week, to-day. He was charged with theft from bis employers, Ferry, Perry and Pope, it being stated for the police it would take at least a week to complete investigations.

SEAMAN’S ILLNESS. WELLINGTON, April 27

An emergency call at Rarotonga was made by the ship Sawokla on April 5, to land Seaman Eugene Williams, who was suffering from severe blood poisoning, writes the correspondent of the United Press Asociation at Rarotonga.

The patient was lowered over the side of the vessel on a bed, and was taken to hospital. He is now making good progress.

DAIRYING BOARD.

WELLINGTON, April 27.

A vacancy will occur on the New Zealand Dairy Board on June .30. through the statutory retirement of one of the elective members, Mr. J. Dunlop, representing the southern ward. One member is required by legislation to vacate office, the board determining by lot. the member to do so. This was done at the board's last meeting, the draw going against. Mr. Dunlop.

FAMILY DISPUTE.

WELLINGTON, April 28.

With a view to arriving at a settlement, an adjournment sine die, was taken in the Supreme Court, to-day, in the Eckford family dispute, in which two sisters' seek an order for accounts and an inquiry into conduct of the shipping business established by their father. Defendant is’ their brother, Charles Alexander Eckford, shipping manager, Blenheim. Mrs S. A. Multton, of Perth, another sister, was to-day joined as a plaintiff by consent.

WIFE’S DEATH. AUCKLAND, April 27.

After hearing evidence, the Coroner (Mr W. R. McKean) found that Mrs Mary Elizabeth Gage-Brown, aged 87, died in the Auckland Hospital on April G, from laceration of the brain and severe injuries to her head. The injulriesi were inflicted w(ith an iron weight by her husband, who had been a patient in the Auckland Mental Hospital, and who was out on leave for a period of six morfths. The evidence disclosed that neither before nor while in hospital was the man regarded as dangerous l or suicidal. It had also been shown that at the time he inflicted the injuries on his wife his condition was dictated, byi delusional ideas and his judgment and reasoning were so completely deranged that he lacked comprehension of the quality of his act.