TELEGRAMS.
fPBU 'PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT
AUCKLAND GAS SHORTAGE. 1 AUCKLAND, September 3.
A severe curtailment -of the gas pres- i sure has seriously affiedted the various ■industries depending on that eommo- ! dity for power or heat. 'Restaurants ■mostly served ovorthing cold to-day in- 1 chiding drinks. Several announced they' •were closing, until the gas supply was back to Tiormnl . 1
BOXER’S LITTLE JOKE. GISBORNE, Sept. 3. A fine of £25 \vas Inflicted by Magistrate Barton to-day on Les -Gieeson, the well-known Australian -professional boxer, for giving a false alarm of fire from a residence in which wedding festivities were being held.
FUNERAL OF HON MACDONALD. GISBORNE, Sept. 3. The funeral of the late Hon W. D. S.. MacDonald was one of the largest ever •held in Gisborne, the whole district from Napier to East Cape and Tnuranga being represented, as well as friends from Wellington. The body arrived! from the South this morning, ,and was taken from the steamer Araliura to the Presbyterian Church, where a service was held. The pallbearers were Messrs Ngata, Forbes and Hockley (M embers of Parliament), Wildish, (Mayor of Gisborne), Matthews (Chairman of the County Council), and Tullock (Chairman of the Waikohu County. The mourners included Hon Nosworthy, Mr T. E. Y. Seddon, representatives of Government Departments, and members of every local body in the Poverty Bay and Bay of Plenty districts. Tire motor cars in the cortege extended almost a mile, and the route from the town to near Mnkaraka Cemetery was lined with people. RAILWAY APPEAL BOAIUL INVERCARGILL, Sept. 3. The sittings of the Railway Appeal Board were continued to-day. • Decisions were reserved in the cases of J. L. Jacobson, (stationmaster at Edendale), and W. Hartley, (goods clerk at Invercargill), against being superceded in the 1913 D classification list.
A MEETING. DUNEDIN, This Day. The Grand Lodge 1.0.0.1. is advised that a meeting of the Grand Lodge of Australasia will be held at Dunedin, commencing on October 20th next.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19200904.2.3
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 4 September 1920, Page 1
Word count
Tapeke kupu
326TELEGRAMS. Hokitika Guardian, 4 September 1920, Page 1
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in