DOMINION NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1937, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS

FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. (Per Press Association —Copyright). MASTELTON. Sept. 20. A decision that the Government should be requested to hold an open inquiry concerning the embargo on the importation of live stock direct Irom England, was made by the Y\ airarapa Provincial Executive of the Farmers' Union to-day. Action in that direction was urged by Sir William Derry, who. expressed the opinion that the proposed quarantine regulations were unworkable,’ and would be too costly. He maintained that there, was 11 o risk of foot and mouth disease-being introduced. Precautions were now being observed by breeders and authorities iu England, It was imperative that. New Zealand should import new blood to improve the quality oL stock and meet competition in the fat Jamb atm chilled beef trades.

Several other speakers supported Sir William Perry, though some opposition to any removal of the restrictions was apparent. The motion was carried on the voices. MOTOR CYCLE SHOD ENTERED. ■ CHRISTCHURCH, Sep 20.

Forcing an entry with a tyre lever early on Saturday morning into the premises of the British Motor-Cycle Agencies (N.Z.) Ltd., in Manchester street, a thief or thieves apparently neglected a strong room containing about £6O and took away a cash box containing about £5. Ibe lock on the front door was smashed, the drawers in the office desk were upset, and a drawer containing the money forced open. The matter is being investigated by the police. The manager of the premises. Mr A. Baden, said yesterday that although nothing jn the strongroom bad been disturbed and - nothing was missing from the shelves, the office at the back had been thoroughly ransacked. He considered that the marts on the door showed that the work wa 8 that of amateurs, as many attempts had been made to force the lock.

LEAVE TO APPEAL REFUSED WELLINGTON, Sep. 20,

The Court of Appeal to-day dismissed an application for. leave to appeal against a sentence made by William Albert John Gray Kompton, farmer and stock buyjer,. aged . 51, who was sentenced by Mr Justice Smith in the Supreme Court at Wellington to three months’ imprisoniment with hard labour after pleading guilty to a charge of failing to stop after an accident on the Masterton-Carterton road on August .3, when a truck driven by him struck a bus. CAR STRIKES FENCE. CHRISTCHURCH, September 20. Several yards of a wooden fence, a gate, and two posts at the front of the residence of Mr T. W. McKee, at the corner of Cameron and Walker streets Ashburton, were broken down by a motor-car on Saturday evening. The car failed to negotiate the corner, and mounted the footpath, narrowly missing a large telegraph post at the corner, and crashed its way to a standstill along the fence line. No owe was injured, and only the front bumperbar of the car was damaged. INQUEST VERDICT. CHRISTCHURCH, September 20. A verdict- that death was due to coronary occlusion, which occurred while his car was being driven along the road, was returned by the Coroner, Mr E. C. Bathurst, at the adjourned inquest yesterday ori the death of Samuel Gordon Holmes, a well-known farmer of Methven, who was found dead in Iris overturned motor-car on the Meth-Teii-Mitcham road on the afternoon of September 4. ■