TELEGRAMS

Hokitika Guardian, 8 June 1920, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

[.ran pbess association.- copyhiout 1 FLOODS SUBSIDING. • V ; TE KUITI, 'This Day.. 1 The Hoods are subsiding steadily. A 'fatality occurred at Honikiwi, the Bub. lie Works overseer—E. F. Dunkley—a returned soldier, while crossing' a swollen stream, being swept • from his horse and! drowned. The body has not been found. TRAINS GET THROUGH. / , TE KUITI, June 8. The iloods are subsiding. Trains got through northwards this morning. The back country roads aro extensively damaged, and slips are numerous.

HON. J-. G. COATES. WELLINGTON; June 8. Hon. J. G. Coates, Minister of Pub lie Works arrived at Gisborne this' morning,’ having travelled overland . fron Napier. ..The ftlinister describes the journey which was made during rain, as one of. the roughest he hag experienced. There' were numerous slips and trees .across the road, which the. Minister with a long handled shovel, assisted in clearing. Mr Coates was accorded a civic reception this morning after which lie received deputations . from various >parts of the district, as far no fell as Matakaoa county, East Coast, Hid Minister continues his over|aml ourney to Opotiki to-morrow. j ■/. IN EXPLANATION, • V > WELLINGTON, June 8. Tramwaymen assert, in a niemoranlum on the strike settlement, that the itr.ike arose from'an unfortunate misinderstatiding of a communication beween Auckland and Wellington, which ed to unintended action,, not in anyway irbmqditated, hut which subsequently iroved eontritry to any intention of the loniinion Advisory Board, and not in ccord with judgment of the local i'uion. Tlis precipitated the strike liefore same could he averted. $ oMMEM-mmc *»ae<n««w