DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 April 1923, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[by telegraph—PEß press association.] S( HOOT, IXCEXDIARISTS. AUCKLAND, April II At the Supreme (‘nun, Livingston Forsyth McNair and Leslie Cyril Watson were charged that they deli 1 irately set lire to the Avondale sch ol and other buildings. They were described by the Probation Officer as a pair of young blackguards. The Court ordered McNair two years' probation and Watson three years' reformative treatment. JOHN TUI 11 TO HAND. DUNKIHN. April 12 At the Executive Uoltn'il till' 11101*11 ■ ing. t!i" Governor General concurred to ( ajiinet’s advi'v x.nd it was dot* rmitted llntl the death sentence on John Tuhi for the murder of Herbert Henry K night. I e carried into -‘be t. MELTING Of RETURNED MEN. MEMORIAL OR C LI B IInUKE. WELLINGTON. April '2. There was a large gathering at the Town 11,ill hi'l night, convened by Mr A. C. Whatman to di-eit" questions (oneerning a war memorial lot* Wellington. Mr Whatman sain Wellington wa~ the capital city and was the otdv citv which had not built a 1 hih fur returned men. The present ( luh was an insult to the living and dead. He said he would do his utmost to help the -..ldiots and the war memorial committee. it they would endeavour to first secure a Club lot* .soldiers; Mi Berry moved that the meeting requests the War Memorial Committee to re.-onsider 1 1 s plan- so that provision may he made in the l and w Inch it is proposed to raise :I * for building a memorial club ter ex— •rviccmett at it cost of not les- than c.'lo.'r)!l, and (2) lor the erection of a monument or cenotaph, p'.ividcT the memorial club shall have priority in every respect and that no step shall k* taken towards tlx* erection of a monument till the full amount for tin* memorial club shall l ave been raised. Mr Berry said there were two schools of thought, one favouring a utilitarian edifice and the* other a sentimental monument. The motion was seconded by Mr Catherwood who ~aid Mr Whatman was willing to give IMl'lltl toward' the Club. Mr Mitchell desired to move an ainen Intent w hich the Chairman would not accept, on the ground that it was a direct negative. Mr Mitchell, speaking ot what had been coutcmplalch, said it wa~ tin intention as soon a~ the pr. -cut park was completed, to raise names mi* a ( luh. It was not lair t.. put a l.nmbshell in the camp w i, Go- cliert had been eomineneed to get ilie money needed. “You arc putting us c.lfside with tlie people,''

Mr Fair said the elici t of the motioi was that the ( luh would he ereetei first. and if tin re was no mottos lt*f there would he no memorial. Mi llardham. Y.C.. said the onl ili fferenec between Mi Whatman am tlie War .Memorial Committee was ilia Mi Whatman wanted the (Tub first am memorial second, and the CommiUc wanted the memorial first. As a mem

her of the Committee in* agreed tha the memorial should come lifst. T he m,a ion was cunied by a big tint jor'ty. WOOL KALES (I IB Its It HITH'II. April 12. At the lil tit wool sale the nlfertm '.ms .’>*>(>{; lades, '('here was a good at teudame of buyers. Uhl owing to th lack of competition hv the local mill.* nicrino was easier coiiioai'd with las sale by a | ettny per pound. There wa: good comp' lit ion fur other sorts, half bred being a penny to three hall-pern, let tel . and nth t sort- full a pen a* belter. AIT'HI VIA NT Alf lIFST ED. MASTERTON. April 12. Ralph Berry ( ook. an accountant ii the .Municipal Gas Department, wa arrested at (Tiristcliurcii for tin* alb'g ed theft of £TI 11!- Ad. feck told ill. (In i.-tchlirch police that there wee dcl'ali-ntiniis in the hooks in .Mn'lertoi amounliug to about i’.TB'J.