DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 June 1943, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS

♦ DEMOCRATIC PARTY WELLINGTON, Juno 12. The following Democratic Labour Party candidates have been selected: Private C. S. Teecc, for Wellington South, and Mr Les. Frame, Wellington Suburbs. Both are businessmen, and Private Teece, who is in camp, is well known in sporting circles. Mr Frame, who resigned frorn the Labour Party to become Democratic Labour’s first president in Dunedin, now lives in the Welliangton Suburbs electorate. Mr J. Hodgens, sitting Member Lor Palmerston North, was unanimously nominated by all Labour Representation Council affiliations for that seat.

KAIPARA CANDIDATE. DARGAVILLE, June 11

Mr. Samuel Swanton Green, farmer, of Mangatu, Donnelly’s Crossing, chairman of the Donnelly’s CrossingBranch of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, who has been approached to contest the Kaipara seat, states that if he should stand he will do so as an Independent supporting the Farmers’ Union platform enunciated at the recent conference. Mr. Rodney Coates, of Matakohe, for 26 years chairman of the Otamatea County Council, and brother of the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, states that he has not been approached by any elector in the Kaipara electorate with a view to his contesting the election.

AMERICAN KILLED. TAIHAPE, June 11

When a truck belonging to the United States Marine Corps left Ellis Road, Taihape, last night and crashed down a steep hillside 200 feet, turning over several times, an American serviceman was fatally injured, and died at the Taihape Hospital this morning. He suffered a fracture of the base of his skull, and laceration of the brain.

Another American serviceman, driver of the truck, is in a serious condition with a fracture of the spine and internal injuries. A third serviceman was unhurt. The police and two doctors arrived promptly, and the men were carried with extreme difficulty up the steep slope to the ambulance.

FORGERY AND THEFT. DUNEDIN, June 11

Sentences on 10 prisoners who had been found guilty of forgery and theft connected with the signing of Army acquittance rolls, were passed to-night by Mr. Justice Kennedy. The following were sentenced to 15 months’ reformative detention for forgery and six months’ reformative detention on charges of theft: — Jack Bayne Townsend and James Richard Edmond. The following were sentenced to six months’ imprisonment with hard labour on charges of forgery and six months’ imprisonment on charges of theft the sentences to be concurrent: James Rivers. Claude Alexander Buchanan, Percy Lawrence Dawson, Alexander Reid Young. John Gavin Maclntyre, Allan Gibb, Milton James Hall, and Clement Hall Beck. His Honor said that the system seemed to have been one with which no fault could reasonably be found provided certain civilian officers, upon whom the military officers had to rely, had shown merely ordinary honesty. n The cases had been under trial since May 12.