In the Dominion

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20104, 24 March 1928, Page 6

In the Dominion

The 80th. anniversary of Otago was celebrated yesterday as a close holiday. The principal sporting event was the Oamaru Jockey Club’s meeting at AVingatui.

At a public meeting yesterday it was decided to celebrate, in Christchurch, the diamond jubilee of tho city by raising £25,000 for the construction of a riverside boulevard along the lower reaches of the Avon.

A distressing fatality occurred yesterday afternoon at Mangakara, near Ohura, when Robert Humphreys, nineteen, was killed as a result of a tree which he was chopping down, falling on him. Death was instantaneous.

An Auckland telegram reports that Alark Roglieh and John Alarion Jelichch, Dalmatian boarding-house keepers, pleaded guilty to sly-grog selling in Lower Vincent and Federal Streets respectively and were lined £3O

As a result of a collision of two motor-cycles at the intersection of Rolleston and Stafford Streets, Hokitika, Edward Rooney, telegraphist, of Kanieri, was admitted to Westland Hospital with his right leg broken at the thigh and both bones of an arm broken. Tho other rider only suffered bruises. Both cycles were considerably damaged.

A tragic happening occurred at. I’arkvale yestend*ay afternoon. Samuel AlcGovern, farmer, 45 years of age, who was working fields with a motor tractor, attempted to cross a drain when the tractor reared up and fell backwards, pinning him beneath. The body was badly crushed and death almost instantaneous. Deceased leaves & widow and & young family of four.

In the Alagistrate’s Court, at Opotiki yesterday, F. C. Parkinson, a lorry driver, concerned in the recent motor fatality on Alarch 9, appeared to answer charges of negligent driving, and being intoxicated when in charge of a motor vehicle. Tn the former charge the case was dismissed, but on the latter the accused was sentenced to 14 day and prohibited for twelve months, otherwise his driving license will be cancelled for twelve months.

The conference of the New Zealand Justices’ Association at Auckland, adopted a Canterbury remit suggesting the appointment of women police officers in large centres. It was resolved to request the Justice Department to provide an office in each of the four main centres for the use of Justices. The conference approved of the recommendation that specially qualified women Justices be appointed as visiting Justices to women’s reformatory homes and prisons. The next conference will be held at New Plymouth.