DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 June 1930, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

MOTOR DRIVER CHARGED,

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.

WELLINGTON, June 5

Albert Leonard Smith was committed for trial on a charge of negligently driving a motor car and thereby causing the death of Dorothy .Middleton. According to the evidence Smith was driving with deceased and others along Tasman Street at night. To avoid another car he swerved his machine and ran over a path through a fence and crashed into a house. Miss Middleton received a- cut on the thigh and tetanus set- in. Smith’s own statement admitted he was going da miles per lion r.

Tile defence was that the girl was sufi'cjnitg from another disease and the connection with tetanus was too remote to implicate Smith.

A TICK LAND LICENSING COMM ITTEE.

WOMEN AND LIQUORS

AUCKLAND, dune 5

When the chairman of the Auckland Licensing Committee to-day remarked that police reports on hotels contained reference to drinking by women, Sub-Inspector Lander said there was nothing to show that young women were frequenting hotels. He had had convictions for the year analysed, and only one woman under 21 had been convicted. The Chairman said no doubt it was a growing evil. The general prohibition of the supply of liquor to women might not have public support, but if the Committee were informed that any hotel made a special business of supplying women it would deal with the licensee. HARBOUR BOARD CHAIRMAN. CHRISTCHURCH, June 4. Mr H. T. Armstrong, M.P., was today elected as the chairman of the Lyttelton Harbour Board. This election was a departure from the Board’s usual course, which is to allow 7 its chairman to have a. second term or office. Mr H. Holland, M.P., the retiring chairman, had been chairman for only one year. Mr Holland was nominated, but there was no'seconder. Mr Armstrong was elected chairman unopposed. Mr Holland, speaking beifore ■ the nominations were called, said that he would feel deeply aggrieved, and would consider that he had been personally slighted if he were not allowed to have a second term as chairman. The Lyttelton Harbour Board to-day voted £IOO for the relief of unemployment.

DOG trials DANNEVIRKE, June 5. The North Island sheep dog trials’ championship commenced on Tuesday, and is being favoured with fine weather so far, The Long Head, in which there were 69 entries, was only concluded this morning, resultingJ. McHardy (Alataroa) Jack points 1; W. Thom (Kumeroa) Speed 47, 2; J. Johnston (Wanstead) Glen 46, 3; C. McErlaine (Otago) Ned, 4; J. Anderson (Otago) Toby 444, o; M. Parkinson (Gisborne) Royal 44, 6. There are seventy entries in the Short Head and Yarding, and 50 in the Hunt-a-wav,.

national defence league. WELLINGTON, Juen 5, Steps have been taken during the past fortnight to revive the National Defence League of New Zealand and this has been accomplished with Sir Andrew Russell as President. A campaign will shortly be opened for establishing an organisation throughout the Dominion and engaging in educational work. If is stated that the movement is receiving widespread support particularly i n view of rumours regarding defence scheme changes, and the Government’s announcement that it hopes to save £500,000 this year by cutting down the vot e ‘ of a million for naval air service and military forces. H. T. Marshall lias been appointed organiser for the League in Wellington. FOUNT) SHOT. HASTINGS, June 5. William Van Asch, aged 63, married, with a grown up family, a well known Hawke’s Bay pastoralist, was found dead at his homestead, Craggy Range, near Havelock North, with a shot guri grasped in his hand and the back of his head blown away. The body was removed to the Hastings morgue. An inquest will be held tomorrow. THEFT OF CAR, AUCKLAND, June 5. There was a thrilling chase in Mt. Albert yesterday afternoon. A young mechanic was caught by two civilians in a missing car and handed to the police. A motor cyclist noticed the car performing unusual evolutions at an intersection and it was then driven oft' at a terrific speed. With a companion in a sidecar he pursued it, eventually forcing the car into a kerbing. He removed the driver and took him to the police station. Today Leonard Alfred Martin, 22, was remanded for medical observation on three charges relating to the car.