DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 May 1929, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

£ls FOR SHOPLIFTING. (By Telegraph—Press Association). WELLINGTON, May 23. A married woman, Beatrice Riggins, aged 37, was lined £ls to-day, m default two months’ imprisonment, for shoplifting. She had taken articles, mainly women’s apparel, from C. Smith’s, Ltd., to the value of £lO 17s (id. it was said that she was living happily with her. husband and was the mother of two children. She had given trouble to her family owing to drink, but had' not previously shown .dishonesty. PRIME MINISTER’S BANQUET. COMMITTEE FINED. INVERCARGILL, May 23. An action was brought by the police to-day against the committee responsible for the Prime Minister’s banquet, for ,a breach of the Licensing Act, in permitting liquor to be dispensed on that occasion. The police stated that it was not a case of the usual type, and that the function had been most orderly. The Magistrate (Mr. Woodward - state ed that the occasion was unique, but the law had to be vindicated, lie imposed a lino of £5. NIGHTINGALE’S SONG. HEARD BY WIRELESS. ; /•, DUNEDIN, May 23. White the Radio Service, Ltd., was rebroadcasting the English station, GSBW, this morning at 10 o’clock through its own station, 4ZL, a unique opportunity was given listcners-in ol hearing the song of the English nightingale. The London station, 2LO, had placed a microphone ih one ol the woods near London, and ’for hall an hour or more the songs of the birds were plainly heard. The volume and clarity were good, and, at times, three and four birds were singing at once. BURGLARS REMOVE SAFE. DUNEDIN, May 23. Last night, burglars entered the premises of Carter’s Motors, removing a •safe containing £L' This morning, the empty safe, with-a bunch of keys, was found on the. roadway between Green Island and Brighton. FATAL FALL FROM LADDER. AUCKLAND, May 24. : Falling about 25 feet from a ladder at the Auckland Gas Company’s works to-dav, Edward Thomas Avery, aged 73, received fatal injuries, and died three hours later. FARMERS’ PROTEST. PALMERSTON NORTH, May 24. The Dairy Farmers’ Union Executive meeting at Palmerston North yesterday took objection to the practice oif Magistrates and Justices ordering convicted rogues and vagabonds and similar offenders to leave town immediately,. which meant that they were thrown upon country districts, and farmers, whose wives and children were often left unprotected-all day. Tlie position was described as scandalous and it was decided to communicate with the Minister of Justice in protest. OBITUARY. CHRISTCHURCH, May -5. Obituary .—Frederick Nelson Adams, aged (52 years, head and loundci *4 Adams, Ltd., motor traders. KILLED BY MOTOR OAR. CHRISTOIURCH, May 25 Mrs Caroline Ramsay, aged 71, vns killed hv a motor car last evening, while crossing a road to catch a train INDIGENT MIGRANTS. AUCKLAND, May 22. It was stated at a meeting of the Auckland Hospital Board that it bar cost the Board £385 to send iniligou' immigrants bade to England and £125 for persons returned to Australia. The Board decided that a whole family be returned to England, at an estimated cost of £l9O. The exports" of keeping them in food and rent was £176 a year. £SO FINE. AUCKLAND. May 24. A fine of £SO for being intoxicated while in charge of a motor car was imposed on Alexander Hawthorne, aged 42, by Magistrate Hunt at the Police Court to-day. Aecusbd’s driving license was also cancelled for 12 months. STOLEN CAR, AUCKLAND, May 24. A four-seater motor ear, valued at £4OO, and owned by C. E. "Ward which was unlawfully removed from a street in Newton last night, was today found wrecked at the bottom of an 80ft c-lilf, at the waterfront road, Ornkci. COLLISION WITH RAILWAY TRUCKS. DRIVER INJURED. - 'WELLINGTON, May 24. A motor lorry was struck by coal • trucks at the Davis Street railway crossing this morning, and was smashed. The driver,- Edward Eston, was admitted to the hospital suffering from concussion and shock. J