NEWS IN BRIEF,

Otago Witness, Issue 3542, 31 January 1922, Page 25

NEWS IN BRIEF,

A large wooden building and store, owned by Messrs Griffin and O’Brien, and used as a packing shed, together with the contents, was totally destroyed by fire at Nelson on the 23rd inst. The insurances total £IOOO. The premises had not been used for several days, and the origin of the fire is a mystery. The maximum fine, £IOO, was imposed on Douglas Rolls Revell, account, Auckland, charged with aiding and abetting House and Daking, drapers, of Hamilton, in making a false return of income. Russell Bedford Graham pleaded not guilty a.nd was committed for trial on a charge of manslaughter of a 10-year-old girl named Madge Cooper, who was knocked down -by a motor car on the Manukau road on December 19. When Charles Campbell Dawkins, the young man who is charged with causing actual bodily harm to Dr P. M'Evedy. was before the court at Wellington, Chief-detec-tive Kemp asked for a remand to February 1. This was granted.. It is understood that the case, which possesses some unusual features, will be proceeded with then. There are still a considerable number of unemployed in Dunedin and many cases of hardship have been reported to the Relief Committee which has only £271 odd in hand. It was reported last week that there weve 40 unemployed ex-soldiers on the books of the R.S.A., of whom 18 were married men while five of the single men supported dependents. Mrs Macdonald, a member of the Otago Hospital Board, is asking for a return each month of the breakages of crockery at the Hospital. In December breakages cost £59 and in January the cost was £37. At. the meeting of the N.Z. University Senate at Auckland a proposal to change the name of the Workers’ Educational Association to University Adult Classes Association was rejected.