In the Dominion

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20127, 21 April 1928, Page 6

In the Dominion

A Hamilton message says that at Huntly, Harry Samuels, a Hamilton tailor, was fined £25 for bookin king.

Poppy Day collections on Dunedin streets yesterday totalled £460. Returns from some of the suburbs have yet to come in.

A Whangarei mesage states that, William Howie, nine years of age, was run over by a motor on Thursday evening and sustained a double compound fracture of the left leg and was badly bruised about the head amiface. He is progressing at the hospi-

A Whangarei message states that when using an iron curbing machine in his father’s tinsmithing workshop, Ralph Fulljames, aged 15, got one hand in the machine. His endeavour to extricate himself resulted in the other hand being imprisoned. He was released by a fellow worker, and taken to the hospital where both wrists were put in splints.

The storeman neincd Driver who pleaded guilty on Thursday to the theft of goods from Derbyshire’s, Wellington and to obtaining money by false pretences, was sentenced to 'our months’ gaol on each charge yesterday, the sentences to be concurrent. Air Page, S.AI., said that the Probation Officer in his report did not recommend probation and he had come to the conclusion that he was not able to grant it.

“You arc an old rascal and should have done to you in person what you did to the dog,” said Air Mosley, yesterday morning at Christchurch when convicting ami fining John Owen Rowe, a retired farmer, of Spreydon on a charge of committing an unreasonable act by tethering a collie dog behind a fast-moving vehicle and so causing the dog unneccsary suffering. He was fined £4.

The new railway extension from Millers’ Flat to Roxburgh was opened by the Hon. F. J. Rolleston on Thursday, before a representative attendance from the surouuding district, which include**! 500 people who accompanied the Alinisterial train from Dunedin. It is 23 years since the line commenced to creep west from Lawrence and the total cost has been £550,000. The completion to Roxburgh communication with all the South Isgives the fruitgrowers uninterrupted land markets.

An Ashburton message states that the ratepayers rejected a proposal by the Power Board to raise a loan of £90.000 to be allocated as follows: £70,000 for reticulation; £lO,OOO for the installation of equipment for consumers; and £lO,OOO for the purchase of equipment sale or lease to consumers. Of the 4142 electors on the combined borough and county roll only 1595 voted, as follows: For the proposal 884; against 697. As a threefifth majority was required the proposal was lost by 65 votes.