TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 August 1920, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

j £i*eu press associate./N. —copyright.] ' PUBLIC HEALTH. OAMAICU, August 4. After considering the provisions o: . tlie Public Health Bill, North Otagi , Hospital and Charitable Aid Board ret solved to advise the Minister of Public i Health that all public health work, 10. cal and general, including precaution! in respect to infectious diseases and insanitary dwellings and other premises should no the hands of existing branches of the Health Department and not the local authorities. ; RACING CLUBS AND TAXATION AUCKLAND, August 2. In the course of his address at the annual meeting of the Auckland Racing Club this afternoon, Mr H. T. Gorrie, vice-president referred to the twelve months past as being one of the big figures all over the Dominion. Auckland clubs had paid into the ’treasury during the year £53,086 from the totniisator, £954 n land tax, and £IO2O in local rates, a total of £55,000. The total amount of revenue derived by the State from the totalisator and paid into the Treasury from the whole of the Dominion amounted to the huge sum of £414,053 and of this sum, the Auckland Racing Club contributed just on one-eighth. A recent deefson given by Mr Justice Chapman made racing clubs liable for tlio payment of income tax and that they should be exempted from the payment of this additional tax. The contribution of nearly half a million of money to the Treasury by the racing and trotting clubs should he con. fi?:A'iUd sufficient. If thio collection of income tax for the past four or five years was insisted on it would’fall hardly on many clubs that were not financially strong, as the whole of their profits had been paid away either in stakes or in effecting improvements. At all events, the collection should not be made retrospective. SUPREME COURT. DUNEDIN, Aug 4. The circumstances concerning the death of Qlive May Pyle, aged twenty, who iv as found dead in a house at South Dunedin, occupied by Helen Glegg, an elderly woman, were further inquired into in thp Supreme Court to-day, when Glegg was charged that on or about the 28th -May last she murdered the girl in question. The accused pleaded not guilty. The case is proceeding.

ATMOSPHERIC NITRATES. WELLINGTON August 2 Some time ago Mr Massey stated that during the war period, the British were not possessed of as much information as the Germans with regard to the best methods of collecting nitrates from the atmosphere, by the use of water-power. His statement was contradicted. Since then lie lias been in communication with Lord Moulton, who is regarded as thy leading authority in England on the question, and who was consulted by the Peace Conference. Lord Moulton states: “Firstly, during the war period, the Germans were in possessing of more information on the piapufqeiiue of nitrates from the atmosphere than the British, because they worked on. a largo scale with the Haber process, which was in us e nowhere else, and which was their main source of supply. The British were compelled obtain their supplier from Chili, but the cyanide process, which is the second most important method known, was u'sed by them tp a small extent, although it was unsuitable, owing to the amount of power required. Secondly, the Haber, process has now been mastered by the British, and is being installed on a very substantial scale. They have made very great progress in knowledge during the past three or four years, and it is doubtful whether they are now inferior to the Germans, although the latter have the advantage of much experience in practical production.”

A RECORD BULLOCK. CHRISTCHURCH, August 4. A Dominion record price for a bullock £204, was paid at Addington saleyards to-day. The animal weighed 3056 H>fc

OTIR.\ DEPUTATION. WELLINGTON, August 4 A deputation of Otifa Tunnel workers met the Hon. J. G, Coates regarding the wages dispute. The men complained that the wages of 14/- per day were 1/less than outside and also objected to the engineer sent to arbitral?. Tho Minister said the men had not tried the offer of a contract rate. The men replied they would try if guaranteed £1 per. (lay, Tig, deputation is unfinished, owing to a Cabinet meeting . HON MACDONALD. WELLINGTON, August 4. Hon. W. D. S. MacDonald (loader of the Opposition) is leaving for Te Aroha to-morrow for a rest. Mr Wilford will act as temporary leader of the Party.