TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 July 1920, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

I -'v u eiiHss assoc Vi ion .—corvtuuH’i'.j MOTOR FATALITY. WELLINGTON, This Day. A distressing fatality occurred late on Saturday night involving the death of a middle-aged woman,'Miss Blanche Saunders, who was crossing Lambton Quay when she was run down by a motor ear driven by T. C. A. llislop. Deceased apparently did not see tile ear until it was close to her. Then she Restituted and made as if to cross in front of it. She again hestitated and stepped back. Ilislop swerved his ear to one side, and then to the other, endeavouring without avail to avoid a collision. Miss Saunders was taken to the. hospital, but her life was pronounced to he extinct.

TIMARU NEWS. TIMARU, July 4. A proposal is in hand to pr, ■•• do loiai hydro-electricity for Fnirlie. At tho annual meeting of the 'School Committeo’s Association, among the remits carried were- “That greater attention should bo paid to 1-lie teaching of grammar; and that the salaries at present are inadequate to attract the best, youths to the profession. A protest was made against the Min. ister’s decision that an up-to-date heating system he supplied only to new huildin’gs, which debars sound brickbuilt schools for many years.

PASSENGER DISAPPEARS. * AUCKLAND, July I

A saloon passenger on the Monowai S. Thacker, a boot importer of Gisborne disappeared frorii the Vessel this morning while on the voyage from Gisborne to Auckland. He-was last alive at one o’clock. He was missing at four a.m. A UNION FINED. DUNEDIN, Tlds Day. Mr Bartholomew S.M., gave judg. ment to-day in a case in which the Inspector of Awards brought an action against the Dunedin branch of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers claiming £IOO penalty for a breach un_ del* the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. It was alleged that defendants, during tli e currency of an award took proceedings \vith, the intention to defeat thp provisions of tlic Award, in that they instituted proceedings to prevent work being done by piecework at Reid and Gray’s works. The Magistrate held the defendant union did take proceedings with the intention of defeat ing clause 19 of the Award and gave judgment for a, penalty of £2O.

BOARD OF TRADE. WELLINGTON, July 5. Mr George Wilson, a retired Wellington business man, has been appointed a member of tho Board of Trade. The period of the original appointment 'expired Some time ago, since then certain rearrangements have been in progress. PUBLIC SERVICE SALARIES. WELLINGTON, July 5 Thro Prini/o Minister stated some time ago when the adjustment of wages and salaries in the Railway Department had -been ,-completed, that ho would direct the Departmental Committee to make a recommendation for bringing (lie rates of pay in other braiDehes of the public service into |ins. This committee has now been set up consisting of tho Public Service Commissioner, tho acting head of the Postal Department, the Generaj Manager of Railways and head'of the Treasury. The Committee, which is working with All* Massey as Minister of Finance, lias commenced its duties a«d is making good progress,

j FINANCIAL, i WELLINGTON, July 2. | There is a good deal of speculation j as to the terms on the which the <*ap>i till of the Bank of New Zealand is to be increased. The shares changed I bands at £26* 3s 6d, . but buyers are ! now offering £25 17s Gel. Market gosi sip favours the. belief that the shares j which are all now £6 13s 4d (laid up, 1 will be written up by £3 6s 8d each. ! and made £lO paid up, and they wf|l I then be divided into top £1 paid up I shares. This, of course, is merely mar- '■ kct guessing, and what is mutually pi°- ! posed is being well guarded as a secret, I The prosp'ects of money advancing t<> I comparatively high rates seems ineviiS able, and yet some companies expect ' I to get money at 6 per cent, and 6) * per cent. 11l Australia the States have : to pay high rates, and is is anticipated 1 ! that higher rates than arc ruling now 1 j wil,l prevail. -Money is dear every- ' I where at the moment, except in New : j Zealand, and it would he foolish to be- * I iieve shat the rates can bo kept down ’ here for any length of time. The liari deninn* of money is the great hope

! ~f bring the world back to nonnm. j Apart front the United Kingdom and the United States, the redemption of the war debt is not to he expected by the nations. On the contrary, there are bound to be substantial increases, and that will be the case throughout Australasia.