IN THE DOMINION

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10303, 14 June 1927, Page 2

IN THE DOMINION

NOTES AND NEWS

‘‘That this meeting enters an emphatic protest against .the action of the Defence Department in penalising hoys attending the technical college by forcing them to make up their lost time at drill. ” This was a resolution moved at Christchurch hv Air. J. Diekscfn and carried by a very largo majority at a meeting of combined apprenticeship comijiittees and others interested in the training of apprentices held in the Chamber oi Commerce Hall on' Saturday.

During Sunday evening the sum oi £6 Ss was taken from Sharp’s bakery, Wltangarei. The entrance to the building was the sequel to a fire at Onorani on Saturday morning, when Sharp’s bach anil motor-car were destroyed, together with the keys of the bakery, which was accordingly left unlocked by the employees when (.hey finished work on Saturday afternoon. The sum of £3O was overlooked by the thieves. Within a few weens the construction will commence of a theatre for the Duneclin Octagon, purchased for £35,000. 1 lie theatre will accommodate about 1700. The company, which includes ,T. C. Williamson, Ltd. (subscription ,£22,C00; and a syndicate (£24,000) will spend between £40,000 and £50,000 on the theatre, which will be on the lines of the De Luxe Theatre in Wellington. -

The overseas trade for the Dominion for the month of Afay was as follows :. Imports £3,747,405 (compared with £3,457,037 in A lay last year) : exports, £5,235,139 (compared with £4,081,908). For the live months ended Alay, the figures were: Imports £18,562,171 (compared with £20,999,905); exports, £20,983,925 (compared with £25,499,943). All employees were on strike at the Ara.puni hydro-electric works yesteir itay in reference to the payment of overtime.

At Wellington the heavy weather on Sunday moderated yesterday, though there were frequent si unreins throughout the morning and afternoon, and there was no indication o' the skv clearing. The strong southerly wind had dropped to a large degree. The work of clearing the slip of about one thousand cubic yards which Mocked Ngahauranga Gorge Road, Wellington, on Sunday, was completed by midday yesterday. Thirty men were engaged for the task.

‘ Thieves broke into 0. W. Smith's store on the Opnwn Bond, Christ church, on Sunday night, and stole a. quantity of shirts, collars, rugs, socks and cigarettes. It was a stormy night and the thief was undisturbed. An attempt to force the lock with a jemmy failed, and the

rubber then ‘used the jemmy to smash a glass panel of the door, by which mi entrance was made. No Cash was left in the shop by the owner, who has had previous experience of burglaries 'just a year ago, when thieves broke into his residence and r ole between CIO and C lO.—P.A.