TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 November 1919, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

,VKll CRESS ASSOCIATION.- —COPYRIGHT.j * WELLINGTON, This Day. TOWN PLANNING. s The Executive of the Federated Town s Planning Association of N.Z. is ..sking J each candidate whether he is in favour of a Town Planning Act being pass-id ' next session, making provision for modem methods of town . planning being adopted to all lands and works throughout the Dominion, including the Crown’s. STOCKTON MINE' FATALITY. A DEPUTY KILLED. WESTPORT This Day. James Shearer, a Deputy in Stockton mine was killed by a fall of stone and cool at one o’clock yeserdav. He I'n--1 gered till five. He was married but has no family. A departmental inquest ' will be held to-morrow. I • - : BUTCHERS STRIKE. AUCKLAND, This Day. The Butchers strike shows little change. A few more shops being opened and the Union evidently hopes to get the slaughtermen to join them. ' The two men arrested in connection with disturbances yesterday were before the Court and remanded till the afic.r- j noon. I INCOME TAX FINE. GISBORNE, This Day. At the Magistrate’s Court, J. McCol, a local contractor, was fined £25 'for refusing to supply information to the Income Tax Department. On. three othjer charges he was fined £2 for failing to make returns. ANTI-GAMBLING. CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. A meeting of the Council of Churches decided to submit the following question to candidates for Parliament.— Whether in view of . the phenomenal increase of gambling through the totalisatbr, the candidate would resist proposals for any enlargement of totalisator opportunity; also whether he would support the legislation for the suppres- . sion of hook-making, especially by making books an illegal 1 , calling, and the . use of telegraphic telephone and postal \ services for gambling transactions illegal. | OBITUARY. WELLINGTON, This Day. Obituary,—Lady Atkinson. BUILDERS CONFERENCE. i WELLINGTON, This Day. J The New Zealand Federated u /’- j ers and Contractors Industrial Asso is- j tion of employers are meeting to-day after a lapse of three years owing to the war. Delegates were present from a majority of the leading centres.