TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 July 1920, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

Icek raises assoc ll ' 'now. —corvaiGHT.j RAILWAY OFFICERS’ DECISION. DUNEDIN, July 21. in connection with the referendum recently taken by the New Zealand Railway Officers’ institute, on the question of acceptance or otherwise of the report of the Board which sat in WSI- - to consider the Institute’s claim’s in regard to salary and conditions of service, it is understood that, although the exact figures are not yet available, it is certain that there will he a large majority in favour of the acceptance of the report.

THE WHEAT SHORTAGE . TIMARU, July 21. At a meeting of the committee of the Chamber of Commerce specially convened to consider the wheat shortage. Mr Newman, Manager of the Farmers’ Co-operative Association stated that some local mills must close down about the beginning of October for lack of wheat. After a discussion, Mr Newman moved a motion urging on the Government tlie desirability of taking steps at once to economise available supplies by increasing the percentage taken from the wheat by the miller, and encouraging the larger use of potatoes in bread, and if it was deemed necessary to introduce some system of rationing. TlWs was carried unanimously. Another motion was carried urging the Government to do everything possible to get the Australian embargo on the importation of potatoes removed, otherwise much of the large crop will go to waste, to the great loss of the growers. CLAY PIGEON CHAMPION. MASTERTON, July 21. r Jlie clay bird pigeon championships of New Zealand was won by Duncan Eraser of Masterton. S. Glennie (Gis borne), and E. R. King (Huntly) tied for •second places. INFANT’S DEATH. WELLINGTON, July 21.

A young woman named Agnes Elms Mcpham was charged in the Magistrate’s Court to-day with having on June 9th. murdered her infant male child. The body of the child was found among some blackberry bushes neaJohnsonville. Dr Hector, who made a post mortem examination, said that, the infant had been asphyxiate! through a piece of tape being tied roujnd its neck. The .'accused when seen by Detective Andrews admitted that she had given birth to a child, some time during the seoond week in June and that she had placed the body in the spot where it was found Accused reserved hep defence and was committed to the Supreme Court for trial. An adjourned inquest on the infant was held immediately after, when the coroner returned an open verdict A SUDDEN DEATH. WELLINGTON, July ?1. A watersider named Edward Bloomfield, a married* man, with three children, died suddenly on the steamea Paparoa, in port, late this afternoon, He had just come up from the hold where he had been working when lie collapsed. He was picked up dead, and bleeding profusely apparently from an internal hemorrhage.

PROFITEERING. WANGANUI, July 21

It is understood that an interesting prosecution will take place at an arl? date in connection with a case ot alleged profiteering. It is stated that a farmer in the district sold his wheat as compelled by regulation at 7s 7d a bushel, and it is alleged that the wheat was subsequently sold by the purchaser at 12s. a bushel to local grocers.