TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 January 1920, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

■ |P<ift PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPVUIO.VT,! | HOUSING EXPERT. AA’ i K]JLINGTON, January 15. Mr P. H. Graham, Architect, of Gisborne, has been appointed Housing Expert under the Housing Act of last session. The appointment is for two years, at a. salary of a, thousand pounds a year. Mr Graham will lie in charge of the practical side of all the housing work carried out by the Government.

THREATS TO KILL AVITH AN UNLOADED RIFLE. DUNEDIN. Jan. 13. r An undischarged soldier named j Leonard George Robertson, who appeared to be suffering from the effects of excessive drinking, took charge of his mother’s shop 82 Bay View road, this evening, and emphasised his threats by a demonstration with a rifle. His mother took to the street in alarm, and Robertson proceeded to take charge | of the street by means of a rifle. j Constable Milne came on the scene,

and in spitie of repeated threats from Robertson, who promised sudden death to all and sundry, dashed in and got hold of the rifle.. A violent struggle ensued, in the course of which Robertson’s arm was broken. Subsequently it turned out that the rifle, which had played so prominent a part in the proceedings was not loaded.

UNIVERSITY SENATE. DUNEDIN, Jan. 13. The Senate of the University of New Zealand will meet in Dunedin, on.the 21st inst. Under ■ ordinary circumstances the place of meeting this year would have been Wellington, but, in view of the jubilee of Otago University t, was agreed at the last Senate Assembly at Christchurch to adjourn to Ttunedin. . Tlie committee to deal with the !)<?- r ember examinations, the matriculation examinations, and the University scholarships, will meet on Monday.

COLERIDGE ELECTRIC SUPPLY. CHRISTCHURCH, dan. 12. The long-hoped-tor 50 per cent i»-<-rense in the amount of electric current available from Lake Coleridge supply lias come a step nearer in. AVHen Lake Coleridge was harnessed in the first place preliminary provision was made for « supply of 16,000 h.p., but only 8 000 h.p was provided at the commencement. Then early in the war period orders were placed for the necessary irenerating -machinery and pipe line's for the provision of a further 4,000 h.p. ‘ The turbine for that third pipe line is now in place, and the balance of the generation machinery is on the water, but the pipes' have not yet been shipped. However, a cable,gram has now been received from the Hig i Commissioner stating- that the manufacturing firm in Glasgow hope to have the pipes completed by March. In that case, and always providing that shipping is available, tlie last of the material should be landed here-by the beginning of winter; but probably it will be the end of this year before the current is through .to Christchurch. No additional transmission lines will be required. For mouths ■ past the Public Works Department lias been refusing applications for current, so that tlieie is not likely to be a surplus for any lengthy period after the new supply is available. Tenders are now being prepared for the supply of pipes and machinery to bring the supply up to the >ull 16.000 h.p., and tlie probability is that the second extra 1,000 h.p. will follow very closely after the first.

MAK URA’S TRIP. DUNEDIN, This .Day, The Mnkura is not proceeding to •.Sydney this trip. She remains at Auckland fo.r a week and then returns to Vancouver.