DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 September 1938, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[PEE PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WOMAN FOUND DEAD. CARTERTON, September 5. Louisa Hector, 41, wife of lan Hector, dairyman, of Carterton, was found last night dead in a motor-car shed. CHILD KILLED. INVERCARGILL, September 5. Doreen Agnes Lang, aged four and a half years, suffered fatal injuries when she fell from the back of a trolley on the farm of her father, Mr. Bernard Lang, this afternoon. The child was riding on the trolley behind a tractor and it is thought that after she fell a wheel passed over her. KERIMOANA AT WELLINGTON. WELLINGTON, September 5. At a late hour to-night the. long-ex-pected Kerimoana, the Wellington Harbour Board’s new grab hopper dredge, completed her long voyage of more than 14,000 miles from Glasgow. After the abatement of the strong southerly gale which forced her to shelter on Saturday, the little ship was reported at 10.45 a.m. to-day. Her lights were sighted from the Beacon Hill signal station, seven or eight miles off, shortly after 8 p.m., and she was boarded by the pilot about a mile off Pencarrow Head at 9.20. The Kerimoana berthed at Glasgow wharf shortly before 11 o'clock.

SUSTENANCE FRAUD.

NEW PLYMOUTH, September 5

Failure to disclose a war veterans’ allowance of £l3O a year for himself and his wife, when making returns for claims for sustenance under the Employment Promotion Act at New Plymouth between July 15, 1937, and April 5, 1938, cost a Maori, Taukana Tawhai, a. fine of £55/14/5, in the Magistrate’s Court this morning, when he appeared before Mr. W. H. Woodward, S.M., and pleaded guilty. The amount of the fine was the sum received as sustenance, to which defendant was not entitled by reason of his other income, which had not been disclosed.

VAN-DRIVER’S THEFTS. WELLINGTON, September 6. For failure to account for money amounting to £32/14/6, Lancelot Exley Cathro, 41, van driver, was sentenced to three months’ hard labour. It was stated that he was employed by a Wellington dry cleaning company. In March, this year, it was discovered that he had misappropriated £Bl/3/6, and an arrangement was made whereby. he was to refund some of the money per week. Up to the time of the discovery of a further series of defalcations,' he had refunded £44. The total of the thefts amounted to .£ll3/18/-., i .Mr. Stout, S.M., did not think it was a. case for probation, as the thefts were too systematic, he said.

arbitration court. CHRISTCHURCH, September 5, The nomination of a workers’ representative on the Second Arbitration Court, to succeed Mr A. W. Croskery, will be. made to the Minister of Labour, Hon. H. T. Armstrong, by the Federation, after it has received nominations from various District Councils throughout New Zealand. The Canterbury Council will not meet for nearly another fortnight. Although the Second Court, was appointed for one year as from last November, it is expected in trades union circles in Christchurch that the Court must necessarily continue in existence foi* a much longer period. An enorm ous amount; of 'work still faces the Court, and the ability of one Court to handle all of the cases, even after the present arrears have been wiped off, is questioned.