DOMINION NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume 103, Issue 17411, 25 May 1928, Page 8

DOMINION NEWS.

ROAD UP MOUNT EGMONT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) STRATFORD, Thursday. The Minister of Lands, lion. A. D. McLeod, arrived at Stratford this morning. After lunch he received a deputation which asked for the reinstatement of the grant made in 1920 for metalling the road to the Mountain House. Mr McLeod said he could not promise that a free grant would be made. He thought a system should be instituted under which the park hoard would know definitely what subsidy would be granted on money raised by local efforts. He would confer with the Minister of Public Works on the matter.

THEFTS AT WELLINGTON. WELLINGTON, Thursday. Frederick Hunt Ilardgrave, aged 29, a carpenter, pleaded, guilty in the Magistrate’s Court to-day to the theft of a.gold chain and locket, valued at £O. He was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. Accused stoic from a house which he entered by a window. Francis John Snow, charged with the theft of a wireless set and accessories of a total value of £4O Ids, and with obtaining clothing, jewellery and goods to the value of £O2 4s 3d by valueless cheques, pleaded guilty, lie was ordered lo he detained in a Borstal Institute for three years. He.had been previously in a Bortal Institute for theft. ' ' CHIEF JUSTICE’S ILLNESS. WELLINGTON, Thursday. It was announced late to-night that there was no improvement in the condition of the Chief Justice, Sir Charles Skerrett. NO COMPENSATION. DUNEDIN, Thursday. The Arbitration Court was occupied to-day with hearing the case in which Henry James Healey, waterside worker, claimed against John Mill and Co., stevedores, for damages in respect of injuries alleged to have been received while working on the steamer City of Bath. Mr Justice Fraser gave a majority judgment of the Court in favour of defendant, on the ground that plaintiff, being under the influence of liquor, had been dismissed by the superintending stevedore prior to the accident, and had therefore no right on board the vessel at the time of the mishap. Mr Monteith dissented from the majority verdict, holding that the superintending stevedore had made a mistake in regard to the identity of the man who was dismissed. Judgment was entered for defendant. DUTY ON COCKSFOOT. | • AUCKLAND, Friday. Strong -disapproval of the suggestion made, to the Minister of Agriculture by a Canterbury deputation advocating -that, a duty of Id per*' Jb should be imposed on imported cocksfoot seed, was expressed yesterday at a meeting of the Auckland Seed Merchants’ Association. It- was decided to forward a letter to the Minister embodying Hie views of the association on the matter. The letter points out that farming methods have changed to the detriment of the cocksfoot market, and argues that Danish seed is fully as pure as the New Zealand supply. However, the association agrees that the imported seed should be stained, to distinguish it from the local.