TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 November 1920, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

IPE II PIIBBB ABBOOUXION. COPVBIGHX.] PUBLIC SERVANTS. CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 2. At the general meeting of the Association of Superannuated Public Servants, the following motions were carried:—“That this meeting regrets that the Government is not more explicit in the information given to the Association as regards the £IOO,OOO granted to meet the cost of living, or as to how far tho amount would go. The Association was pleased that the Government had seen fit to make the increases retrospective as from April Ist; That this meeting strongly protests against the Government giving a small sum to superannuated servants in New Zealand at the present time in the shape of a bonus, instead of recognising the just claim of all superannuated servants for a permanent in. crease to their present incomes, until it has been proved that any lesser sum now fixed upon will be commensurate with the amount granted at the time that the Superannuation Act came into force.”

A FATAL FALL. DUNEDIN, Nov. 2. This morning, a tiler, named Joseph ,L Durham, one of a party of workmen engaged in constructing a new building at Henly Dairy, Factory, fell from a fifteen foot scaffold to the concrete floor below, and was killed instantly. I The inquest showed that the cause of I death was concussion of the brain fol- ! lowing a fracture of the base and vault of the skull. Deceased was 33 or 34 years of age, single, and had served' with the sth reinforcements returning to New Zealand in April 1919. i DROWNING ACCIDENT. GISBORNE, Nov. 1. - The police received information tonight from Hick’s Bay that a returned soldier, named Frederick Trenne, aged about forty years, employed on the new freezing works, disappeared from j a party fishing off the rocks near Hick’s Bay on Sunday. It is presumed he was washed off the rocks and drowned. Search parties are now out. - A DROWNING FATALITY. GISBORNE, Nov. 3. Further details of the Te Araroa drowning show that Frederick Trenne, a returned soldier of four years service, employed at Hick’s Bay freezing works as carpenter, went out with four com- ' panions to fish on the rocks near Matakaoa Point on Sunday morning. He was missed by his companions on their return home as Trenne had not arrived and on Monday morning over one hundred men from the works went out and , searched the Coast and neighbouring hills, but no trace was found except a fishing line still in the water. Tlie sea near the point is treacherous, and Trenne had been warned not to venture too far out on the rocks. He was unmarried and forty years of age and came from Auckland. His mother is thought to be living in Adelaide. j PAPER COMPANY’S DIVIDEND. I DUNEDIN, Nov. 2. I The Directors of the New Zealand Paper Mills, Ltd., at a meeting to-day resolved on the payment of an interim dividend of four per cent, for the half year ended Sept. 30. SOLDIERS PROTEST. HAWERIA, November 3. The 'Returned Soldiers Association adopted a resolution strongly supporting the Wellington Returned Soldiers Association’s! protest against pardoning military defaulters on Armistice Day. A copy of the resolution will he sent to the Premier.

FIVE YEARS’ GAOL. DUNEDIN, Nov. 2. At the Supreme Court to-day, Matthew Bradley, ex-City Councillor, of Dunedin, 52 years of age, was charged with committing a serious assault on a girl under the age of sixteen years. The jury, after an absence of forty minutes returned a verdict of “guilty.” Justice ; Sim, in passing sentence, said that in view of the fact that the | accused took advantage of his position as the employer of the prosecutrix, he would inflict the maximum penalty of five years,