DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 January 1939, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

I I‘lfiH PRICfJB ASSOCIATION.] DRIVER IMPRISONED. WELLINGTON. January 2<l. '■[ do not think Hml in a case like Iliis when such cases are being regarded seriously and when a man is leaving a race meeting in heavy trallic in such a condition a lenient view should be laken,” said I lie Magistrate, Mr. A. M. Colliding, in Hie Upper Hull Umirt. when Deryck Spiller, a company manager aged 28. pleaded guilty lo being intoxicated in charge of a motor-ear at I lerelaimga yesterday. A constable said that the defendant came into collision with a stationary car. 'Die accused was sentenced lo I-I days’ imprisonment with hard labour, and his licence was cancelled for IS months.

(.‘OSMETIC FACTORY. AUCKLAND, January 20

With the intention of establishing in Wellington ■■ factory for the Lehn and Dink Corporation of Bloomfield. New Jersey, Mr R. G. Hoehn, who is in charge of the company's foreign manufacturing, arrived from the United States by the Mariposa. Mr .Hoehn has previously visited New Zealand in the interests of his company, which manufactures cosmetics and .-pharmaceutical supplies. “The decision to open a factory in Now Zealand lias not been prompted by the Government’s recent import control legislation,” Mr Hoehn said. “It is merely part of the company’s policy that has been followed for many years. The factory will not be a very large one, employing about 40 c-r i)0 people at the outset,” he said.

LAMB CARCASE

WELLINGTON. January 20

Dines of £5 each were imposed in Hie Magistrate’s Court on Drank John Olifent. aged 22. John Keith Brackenridge. aged 20. and Frederick Albert Fraser, aged 18. for the theft of a carcase of lamb at. Akatarawa on Decern-, her 1,8. The accused obtained permission to shoot on a farm, and said they shot a. lamb, mistaking its movement' in the brush for that of the goats they were hunting. They were discovered in a shed skinning the carcase. “To kill a sheep in this country is a very serious matter, and 1 don't believe these young boys in the goat story.” said the Magistrate, after hearing evidence. “Their -whole evidence is inconsistent. They may have fallen to sudden temptation, but they abused hospitality.’’

THEFT CHARGE. AUCKLAND, January 20. Charged with the theft of. a pearl necklace, valued at £2(55, belonging to a titled woman.’a young woman appeared in the Police Court, before Mi'. D. H. Levien. S.M.. Detective-Sergeant McHugh obtained a remand until Monday.

“1 am instructed that she has a complete answer to this charge,” said counsel* for the accused. “Have the pearls been recovered?” asked the Magistrate.

“No. sir. they were destroyed—they were burned.’’ answered DetectiveSergeant McHugh. In granting a remand. Mr. Levien admitted the accused to bail in her own recognisance on condition that she stayed with the Salvation Army.

On the application of her counsel, the .Magistrate decided that the name be not published in the meantime.

FRUIT CONTROL. HASTINGS, January 20. “We know now less than ever we did.” said' Mr J. H. Milne, president of the Hawke’s Bay Fruitgrowers’ Association, when the proposed Government fruit control was discussed at a meeting of the association at Hastings to-day. Dissatisfaction with the method by which the referendum of orchardists on the question was taken by the New Zealand Fruitgrowers’ Federation was expressed at Hie meeting and the following resolution was passed:— “We. deplore the fact that Hie federation executive did not act in accordance with the resolution passed' at Ihe annual conference asking the Government to take over Hie marketing of fruit.”

The opinion was expressed by many growers that there was more in the federation's action than was apparent on the surface, and that as shareholders of the federation they should demand that: action should he taken.