TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1920, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

1 I*EH PRESS ASSOC Vl’iON . COPYRIGHT.! SUGAR WORKERS TROUBLE. AUCKLAND, August 21. Another hitch prevents the resumption of work at Chelsea sugar refinery. The men want assurance when they will be employed and an understanding that the company will not decline to again employ those men concerned in the strike. The men decline to return to work unless all arc reinstated. They state this was one of the conditions of their agreeing to arbitration. The Knitnngata’s coal was discharged at Chelsea to-day. The arbitration proceedings are postponed! till Thursday.

THE POTATO EMBARGO. WELLINGTON, August 22.

■ Mr Massey states that to-day lie received a cablegram from Dr Cockayne (an Agricultural Department officer) (who is in Australia investigating the matter of the Federal potato embargo stating that (Mr Hughes bad agreed to send an expert to New Zealand and if the expert reports favourably the embargo will be removed. BUILDING RESTRICTIONS. WELLINGTON, Aug. 21. The following is the statement issued by the Board of Trade regarding building after August 31 next: —“Persons who have not completed buildings which they bad in course of construction at June 30 (not then subject to permit by the Board of Trade) are reminded that permits will be required for the . continuation of such works after August 31. When the new regulations were gazetted, provision was made for “two months grace,” as from June 30, for buildings which had been begun before the issue of permits was in the board. Any person thus concerned whose building operations will go beyond August 31, must lodge an applica tion for a permit on the ordinary form with the local authority in the same manner ns for a new building. Prompt action is necessary now, as a safeguard against stoppage. A reminder is also given to suppliers of materials for the works in question after August 31, all orders will be subject to a permit. Before they deliver timber, bricks, or cement they must receive a definite statement that a permit has been obtained for the use of these materials. As a precaution against a misunderstanding, the Board of Trade desire to bring the position under the notice of persons whose building operations will become subject to a permit as from September Ist.

KILLED BY TRAIN. DUNEDIN, Aug. 23. Angus Shaw, supposed to have come from Canterbury, who left Dunedin by the Otago Central train this morning on bis way to take a position on a farm, was found dead on the railway line after the train had left Wingatui, having evidently fallen off and been dragged.

INFLUENZA IN AUCKLAND. AUCKLAND, August 20. Ten cases of pneumonic influenza have been notified in the Auckland Health District since Monday. Mild inuuenza is very prevalent at present.

T HEFT OF TAKINGS. WELLINGTON, August 23. An official of the Company playing ai the Opera House placed a bag containing £240 the night’s takings on a piano on the stqge on Saturday night While conversing with members of theCompany, and turning his back for a minute is disappeared. Yesterday a constable noticed two men di inking whisky in the street and money changing hands. Suspecting sly grog selling he arrested them and when searched £2OO was found on Henry Silk, a stage mechanic at the Opera .House and £6 on the other. The police were already looking for Silk who will.be charged with' theft.

BREAKING WINDOWS. WELLINGTON, August 23. The serious complaint has been madreeently of the wholesale smashing o. plate glass windows, numbers of which were wantonly broken. The latest instance was at G. Fowlds mercery shop in Manners Stweet, where a loud crash was heard and a pane worth £6O was found smashed. Later on J. H. Can. known in amateur circles was arrested, the police considering they have evidence against him.

CENSUS IN '1921. WELLINGTON, August 23. The next vensus will lie taken on the last Sunday in February 1921. An Imperial census of the whole Empire jvill be taken as nearly as possible at the same time, A FATAL FALL. WELLINGTON, Aug. 23. Herbert Male, aged 20, Junior Porter at Thorndon Railway station slipped while traying to close a carriage platform gate and fell on to the line. Two carriages passed over him anl he was killed instantly. £I,OOO damages. WELLINGTON, Aug. 23. Annie Olsen, was awarded £I,OOO damages for the loss of her son Albert Olsen, a telegraph linesman who was electrocuted while erecting a telephone line on Tinakori Hill. The Crown moved for a new trial on the ground that the verdict was against the weight of evidence and damages. REV. BROWN KILLED. DUNEDIN August 23. A motor accident occurred yesterday afternoon which resulted m the death of Rev. W. W. Brown, Presbyterian Minister at east Tnieri. Mr Brown left in his car accompanied by Mrs Waddell, wife of an east Tnieri school master about 2 o’clock to hold service at Allanton. They had reached a point where two roads join, when another car struck his c af. One of the back wheels of Brown’s car came off and the ear turned over twice, striking Brown, who died within three minutes of the accident. . Mrs Waddell was very seriously injured. Mr Brown was a comparatively young man, a native of Invercargill, took his course at Otago Uni versitv, and Presbyterian Theological College.

A MAN KILLED. PAHIATUA, August 23. William Hillson, aged 47, formerly a resident of Shannon, was killed on Saturday evening through falling from a butcher’s cart.

- SERIOUS ACCIDENTS. DUNEDIN, August 22. On Saturday Arthur G. Fulton, aged 24 a bushman, met with an accident at Tahapoka. A tree fell on him, fracturing his left ankle. He was brought to the Dunedin Hospital for treatment. John Archibald, aged 40, a coal minor, residing at Lovell’s Flat was crushed by a fall of coal at Dunlops mine, Lovell’s Flat, on Saturday. His back is badly bruised. He was taken to the hospital at Dunedin, where bis condition is serious.

RACING CLUB’S DEPUTATIONS WELLINGTON, August 23.

A private deputation interviewed the Premier recently on racing matters, Sir G. Clifford being the spokesman. As a result it is stated'"that the Premier assured the deputation that income taxation on CUfbs would not be retrospective. ’ Reference was made to tlie collection of both 24 per cent, on tote receipts an income tax, but Mr Massey could not promise a revision as all tlie finance possible was required. When the new Land and Income Tax measure was brought down there would be a re-ad-justment and the point might then be considered. The Premier was also asked to give assistance in the suppression of the undesirable element, Iclub detectives not being able to cope with it, and he promised to consult the Minister for Police on the subject.

A MAN MISSING. AUCKLAND, August 20. Tlie disappearance of a member of the Epsom tramway workshops staff named Lawrence Callaghan, is causing concern. Callaghan, who had been suffering from asthma, left bis home on Tuesday morning to go for a walk, and nothing has since been heard of him.

CARGO PILLAGING. AUCKLAND, Aug. 19. Cargo pillaging still continues. This morning, a pressman was invited to a warehouse to. see a case of goods for which a clean receipt had been given. It contained soft goods in cardboard boxes, and there was no suspicion that anything was amiss till half of the second layer of the boxes, which were placed on their edges, were found to be both damaged and empty. Further investigation showed that one of tlm iron bands on the bottom edge of the ease had been broken and the edges nailed down a'grfin. Evidently the band had been bent back at the fracture, and one panel of the case lifted. Then apertures hail been cut in the sides of nine cardboard boxes, and several dozens of good quality underwear drawn out. Apparently the panel was then replaced, tlie band renailed, and the case passed muster as int-ct. COAL SHORTAGE SUV ATION. WELLINGTON. Aug. 23. A serious position has arisen regarding coal supplies in Wellington. Three vessels are in port with 4000 tons aboard, are not being discharged, owing to a dispute on the waterside, relative to the discharge of superphosphate from a Japanese steamer. Trams cease running at 2.30 this afternoon, but resume at 4.30 and then run for two hours more only. The electric light for domestic purposes will probably give out at 9 o’clock to-night. The gas supplies will cease about 0 o’clock to-mor-row morning.

HOCKEY. CHRISTCHURCH, August 21. In a ladies rep. hockey match, Southland defeated Canterbury by 4 goals to 2. SALE OF GERMAN PROPERTIES. « AUCKLAND, Aug. 23. Tlie auction sale of D. H. and P.G. Properties at Nukualofa realised £711,110. Robert Conlporn of Suva bought tlie head station at Vivau for £15,200 and six other stations for £13,370, Niafoon properties for £6,590 and Ninaloputabu £4BIO. Burns Pliilp Coy investments totaleld £57,150. Tindall and Ross bought Tanpai station and one Vavau property for £13,960.