TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1920, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PH- PI'.ZSS association—rnpyirioSt. 1 OFFICIALS CHARGED . CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 26. Frederick John Needham,, manager of the shipping department of the New Zealand Refrigerating Coy., and Claude Smellie, shipping clerk in the employ of the same company, appeared before Mr McCarthy, S.M., at the Lyttelton Courthouse this morning on the charge that they did, by negligent act, to wit. by loading on board the' steamer Tainui at Lyttelton, ,certain benzine in' leaking receptacles and ■* improperly ’towed, thereby endangering the safety - of the said ship, contrary to the regulation made under the War Regulations Act, Frederick William Partridge, manager of the Vacuum Oil Coy. at Christchurch, was charged that he did, by negligent net, procure loading on board the Taiqui at Lyttelton, leaking receptacles and improperly stowed the ~ same, thus endangering the safety of the ship. The charges were made by the Marine Department, Defendants asked that the case he remanded, and Captain Marciel, Government Marine Superintendent at Lyttelton, stated that the Department made no objections to granting of remand. The Bench consented to remand, sini die, RESTROSPECTIVE CHILDREN’S, ALLOWANCE'. ■ WELLINGTON, Jan. 29. Applications for retrospective children’s allowances, which were approved of last session, are not being received by the Defence Department as freely as expected, despite the fact that details of the scheme have been widely published. The wife of any soldier (or guardian of his children) who has not received the maximum rate of the children’s allowance (Is 6d a day) for the full period of his military service is advised to communicate immediately with the Officer in Charge, War Expenses, Wellington, it being necessary to clear up all cases to which the grant is applicable as expeditiously ps possib|e-

FOUND DEAD. WELLINGTON, Jan. 7. An elderly woman 'was Found dead in a room in a house ip Abel Smith street on Monday. She has been identified as Emily Webster, alias Cprbett.

UNIVERSITY DEGREES. DUNEDIN, Jan. 28. The University Senate resolved that recommendations of the Board of Studies regarding establishment of a diploma of social science should be referred to a committee to consider the possibility of reducing the proposed prescription report to the April meeting of the Senate. A committee was appointed to repprf fliis session on the question of a diploma of education. The entrance examination Vxmimifte<Ldid not recommend the Senate to extend the provisional matriculation beyond the case of soldier students. With the object of promoting in New Zealand a better knowledge of the French language and literature the Arts and Commerce Committee recommended that a travelling scholarship in French be offered every year, commencing this year, of the annual value of £2OO, tenable for two years. This was adopted.