DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 March 1927, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[bv TELEGRAPH PER PRESS ASSOCIATION 1 CONVICTED. AUCKLAND, March 25. Frederick Charles White, who posed as a detective, was convicted and ordered to come up for .sentence within twelve months. LOTTERY ORGANISER FIXED. AUCKLAND, -March 25. Tlie organiser of the Golden Treasure Art Union, W. G. Compton, was lined .(.'2. by Mr McKean, S.M.. lor having illegally disposed of a ticket in a lottery. Authority was given oil May 26th to hold the Art Union to raise funds for the Eden Park improvements. The drawing was to take place in October of the same year. Ail extension of the date was granted by the Minister hut it was alleged that tickets were sold after the extensions allotted. There had been irregularities in advertising on the posters, one of which l ead how to earn £3 per week. Mr McKean dismissed the charge of establishing a lottery and imposed a line £2 on a charge of dispensing of certain tickets bv which permission was given For participation in a lottery.

STEAMSHIP COY I'TXKD. AUCKLAND, .March 25. The Northern Steamship Coy was lined L'l on a charge ol soiling liquor on the steamer Rnngitoto, between Auckland and Kawau, their packet license operated only between Auckland and Thames.

DRUNKEN DRIVER FIXED. ASHBURTON, March 25. At the Court to-day .las. Oliver Scott was fined £s') for driving a motor vehicle while intoxicated. His present, driving license was cancelled and he was disqualified for three years. Accused was driving -a ear at thirty miles an hour last. Sunday evening and collided with another ear.

VALUELESS CHEQUE CHARGE. ASHBURTON, March 25. W. H. Edwards was sentenced to three mouths.imprisonment followed by twelve mouths reformative on a charge of valueless cheques. He had ten previous convictions of principally talse pretences silica 1913. A FIREASHBURTON. March 25. A lire at the Government experimental farm fist, night destroyed a shed containing a car owned by •) ■ McKay and a large number of sacks of chaff. £10! 1.1)00 LOST. HAMILTON. .March 25. “An examination of the course of tlic dairy market in the past ten days shows that approximately £109.C00 has been presented to the London merchants lij’ the Control Board s restrictions of its former policy." This is the declaration that Mr Dvnes-FulUin tiie Chairman of Directors of the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Coinpauj* lr.lulo in a statement to-day. Air Dynes-Eultou said iliat ii was now possible to summarise the outcome of what he described as the “press and commercial bluff I’' 1 ’' that had been “put across” the Dairy Produce Control Bond recently. The prices had been reduced, and the London importers at once bought New Zealand butter heavily, and now that they had obtained possession. the prices had gone up again considerably. Thus the nett result was t!>t a heavy loss of £IOO.OOO had accrued to the Dominion produe-

CARTERTON. March 25. A meeting of the Wairarapa Federated Dairy Association was held at (A.rterton yesterday, and it passed the following resolution unanimously: “That this meeting ol the Wairarapa Federated Dairies’ Association objects to attend the conference called by -Mr A. J. Sinclair (Secretary of the recent II lniilton Conference) to be held at Palmerston North on the 29th mst. and further expresses Hie lonlulcnee in the New Zealand Dairy Producers Control Board, which it considers is the only legitimate body to call a Don..non Conference.

HOARD CRITICS’ PROPOSAL. HAMILTON. March 2 >. At a meeting of the South Auckland Dairy Association held to-day, a resolution was passed as lollops: ' > ■' l this meeting of the members ol the Association respectfully requests till Dairy Control Board to cid! a meetup of producers’ representatives as ■ • as possible, to discuss the position that has arisen in regard to the Dominions produce, and that all members o the Control Board now m New Zealand present.

THE WARMAKARIEL CHRISTCHURCH. March 2->. A serious situation has developed as the result of the latest flood ... the AVaimakariri River. Xu consequence of the disappem of the protective hank at M right s Em ini the North Road on the whole stretch from White’s Bridge \f Kaiapoi is sub.nergedJ'V‘prmScnlly bbont two feet. Ihe load is on a level with the bed ot the i. cm At least twenty per cent ol " ate is of the AVaimakariri River me (lowing over Wright s imm.