DOMINION NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 February 1925, Page 11

DOMINION NEWS.

FALSE DECLARATION MADE. (BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATIONPALMERSTON N., Feb. 18. At the Police Court a young man, the publication of whose name was forbidden, pleaded guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence on a charge that at Wellington he wilfully made a false statement for the purpose of being inserted in the register hook of births, that he had been lawfully married to the mother of his child at London.

The police stated that the accused was a married man, his wife living in England. For some time past he had been living at Wellington with a single woman who gave birth to a child, fn making the necessary declaration the accused stated the mother of the child was his wife.-

N.R.A. MEETING POSTPONED. WELLINGTON. Feb. 18. The Minister for Defence announces that Cabinet has considered the question of permitting the National Rifle Association’s meeting, which was to, he held in the second week of March, but decided, on account of the infantile paralysis epidemic, that tile meeting must he postponed in the meantime. LOAN FOR HARBOUR WORKS. GISBORNE, Fell. IS. The Tolaga Bay Harbour Board loan of £70,G00 at 6 per cent, has been successfully floated noon the local market. A large proportion of the money came from Nelson and Christchurch MORE CLAIMANTS. CHRISTCHURCH. Fob. 18. The eeretary of the Wellington Early Settlers’ Association writes to the Star disputing the claim by Mr. Estall that his mother (nee Woodham) was the first white child horn 'in New Zealand. He says that two births, are officially recorded as having taken place on June 20, 1840, at Port Nicholson, the names being Rodgers and Hodge.

FINED FOR BOOKMAKING

CHRISTCHURCH. Feb. 18

A fine of £25 was imposed on George Alexander Stanley this morning on charges of bookmaking. It was stated that he formerly had been a Government messenger. ESCAPEE’S SENTENCE INCREASED TE AWAMUTU, Feb. 18. - Harold Keith Jones, the young man who escaped from Waikeria Reformatory on the Bth inst., and when recaptured next day was found to have a rifle in his possession, was brought before justices at the Te Awamutu Court to-dav. The previous sentence was for two years’ reformative detention for forgery and false pretences. To-day’s sentence was two years’ hard labour, the Bench remarking that the penalty was intended to act as a deterrent to other inmates. PRIZES FOR FAT LAMBS. PALMERSTON N., Feb. 18. In connection with the cable from London announcing the results of the judging of lambs entered at the recent Royal Show, then killed and sent Home to London for /special judging, class 10, in which the lambs were entered, was of two divisions, in each of which the prize money was donated by the Producers’ Board. The first division was for fat. lambs most suitable for the Dominion’s export trade, and of the type most desired to keen up the reputation of the country’s lambs on the London market. The winners were: Howard Booth (Carterton) 1. IV. B. Wall (Kairanga) 2, P. G. Mildon (Kairanga) 3 and h.c. The second division consisted of those lambs entered for the first, killed and sent Home, and judged by three adjudicators appointed by the British Incorporated Society of Meat Importers. Of the exhibitors successful at the first judging, only Mr Mildon carried his success on to the London market.