DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1925, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

UY TELKOEAPH —PRESS A ESN , COPVUKJET OBITUARY. WESTPORT, July 13. Obituary—G. E. Bryan, sawmillcr, and President of the Puller Sawmillers Association, aged 03 years, a native of Oxford, Canterbury. He was ail ex-Boruugh Councillor and a member t.f the Hospital Board and many other public bodies. Obituary—Mrs A. 1). Bayfield, native of Hope. Nelson, a daughter of the late Dr Bush, aged 12 years.

PETTY THEFT. TIM AMU, July 11

Two lads, aged nine and eleven years respectively, were charged before Mr E. I). Alosley. fs.AL, at the Timarii Magistrate's Court this morning, with the theft of a Barnndo money-box, containing nine shillings. Both boys pleaded guilty.

Senior-Sergeant Fahey said the elder hoy Imd induced the younger boy to go into a store and take the box off the counter. The two then opened the box and divided the contents. The elder hoy had previously been warned by the. police for stealing apples. Tlis "Worship adjourned the eases for twelve months, and placed the lads under the control of the juvenile probation officer.

diphtheria in Wellington. WELLINGTON. .July 13. The infections disease reports for the. Wellington district show that diphtheria east's are decreasing, though normal conditions have not yet been reached.

MOTOR. FATALITY. WELLINGTON. July 13

A mile from the Rimutaka Hill, on the Wellington side, the driver of a motor ear took a wrong turning, and the ear dropped twelve feet into the Pakuritkai l’iver. AL- Herbert. Edwards. Afasterton, the driver. was drowned. ATr Afinehin (AfartinImrough) Air Kyo (Mastortoni and other occupants escaped.

£3OO KIN E. AKCTCLAND. July 13. Carl Ernest Hitman, agcfl> 33 years, was lined in the Police Court throe Imiulcrd pounds, with the all emotive of six months' imprisonment, for carrying oil the business ol a bookmaker. Jt was stilted tlial the accused’s settling in the street on a day's transactions involved CB7. He is the owner of a hairdresser's and tobacconist’s shop al Mount Eden. When arrested, he suit! he could gel. a bond for £SOO.

appeal court. WELLINGTON. July 13. After hearing legal argument this afternoon in the ease of Palmerston North Borough Council v. .J. J. Casey, the Court of Appeal reserved its decision. CREMATOR]KM KOI! DUNEDIN DUNEDIN. July 11. The move to establish a crematorium in Dun'din is at last beginning L> take definite shape. The quest inn of a site is now practically .settled. At a meeting of the local cremation cummiuee, the secretary read a letter from the Town Clerk, intimating that the reserves commit lee of the City (0111111’ had selected a. site at Ander-on’s Bay cemetery.

The committee is now busily engaged in a collection of £509. which the City Council requires 1 lie society to find as its quota towards the cost, and already practically halt ol Dial sum has been raised.