TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1918, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

j [per press ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT. 1 SINE; DIE APPEALS, TIM A IM!, -May 15. Fil'ty-four First Division reservists whose ape pa Is Iw dboen adjourned sine whose appeals had been adjourned sine ! die, came before the Military Board again to-day, when a lot were again adjourned sine die. Seven were adjourned I o lateii sittings. The remainder were allowed to July 29th or August. 12th. FINED FOR FRAUD. TIMARU May 15. At the Supreme Court a charge was laid against a Dutchman, Willie do Winter, of obtaining about ,£6O from John S- Rutherford of Albury, by falsely representing a quantity of cotton materials as Irish linen. . Accused was found guilty and was fined £6O. 1 TOWN PLANNING. WELLINGTON, May 15. At the annual meeting of the AVeL : lington Town Planning Association, a re solution was passed expressing the opinion that New Zealand should be re- ’ presented at the Town Planning Confcr- ’ once to be belt’ at Brisbane in August, and that the Government should bo asked for a subsidy towards the- exi pense. TESTIMONIALS FOR SOLDIERS. ! WELLINGTON May 15. . Before the Defence Commission, M«- , jor Bartlett, Deputy Director of Base i Records, gave evidence on the subject . of the conduct sheet made up and given a man on discharge. Under the regulations a man had to have 2£ years’ , service to entitle him to a- very good 1 character and with less service he could only get a good character. The Chairman asked: “Do you think that fair?” L Witness: “Not entirely.” 1 The Chairman said the trouble was that a man who went to the front and got shot, in a couple of months and came hack, could only get a “good” certificate, while a man who served on a soft job for 2£ years coiild get a “.very 1 good” certificate.

SHOOTING CASE. TIMARU, May loth. At the Supreme Court here, an aged man, Charles Boves, charged’ with shoot ing with intent a Maori named Boko at Morven was acquitted. Boko and another were drinking in Boves’ hut and refused to leave. Boves got a revolver to frighten them away. lie fired one shot at the ceiling, and accused stated, next tiling Boko hit his arm, and caused a second shot, which accidentally hit Boko in the neck. LIMBLESS SOLDIERS. SCHEMES FQR THEIR. WELFARE. WELINGTON, May 15. The Minister of Defence has received some letters from officers of the Expeditionary Force, dealing mainly with the treatment of soldiers in hospital. General Richardson states a scheme for dealing with limbless soldiers turned out a great success. The men are keen, cheerful and hopeful as to their future. He is now organising a big scheme of education for the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, which will apply to men in hospitals as well as to all tit men in units. The object is to encourage men to devote spare time to improving their minds and making themselves better citizens.

Colonel Parkes wrote that there shortly would he dispatched to New Zealand three mechanics under Sapper Cook who have received instruction ns to the best methods of artificial limb manufacture. He hopes before long to hear not only of the repair, but the coin pletp, manufacture of artificial limbs be ing completed in the Dominion. Sir James Allen said that an Allied Conference was to be held in London iu May, and New Zealand would he represented by General Robinson anu ,Sir Thos Mackenzie.