DOMINION NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 11 March 1926, Page 7

DOMINION NEWS.

CHINESE MOTORIST ACQUITTED. \ (BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, March 11. At the Police Court, Norman Ah Chee was charged with negligent driving and causing the death of Eimest Whitechurch Neale on January 5, the accused being the driver of a motor lorry and deceased a cyclist. The accused was discharged, the magistrate saying that no jury could convict on the evidence. OPAPA RAILWAY ACCIDENT. WELLINGTON, March 11. The Royal Commission set up to inquire into the derailment of the Napier express at Opapa in September last sat here to-day. A copy of the depositions of the evidence heard in the manslaughter charge against the driver of the train was put in by Mr Myers, K.C., after which the commission adjourned. Mr Ridell, the chairman, said the Supreme Court proceedings had mad© it 'Mwnneoessary to recall the witnesses who evidence there. The commission would report to the Minister of Railways. . W.C.T.U. CONFERENCE. CHRISTCHURCH, March 11. Tlie annual conference of the W CTU began this morning. In .her address, Mrs Don, Dominion president, said the union had passed another milestone in the long march, to prohibition. When the union was first formed in New Zealand 40 years ago the slogan was to educate, agitate, organise and legislate. The need for progress was never greater than now. GISBORNE HARBOUR AFFAIRS. GISBORNE, March 11. The Harbour Board held an investigation to-day into the expenditure occasioned by repairs to the dredge Korun and the tug Pelican. After various reports and lengthy correspondence had been read, members expressed the opinion that the board, through no fault of its own or its servants, had then badly treated in connection with the survey of the vessels, and resolutions were passed to confer with its solicitors with a- view to taking action, presumably against the Marine Department.