TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 February 1921, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS.

[by TELEGRAPH—PER PRESS ASSOCIATION]

KAURI TIMBER

AUCKLAND, Feb 9

An increase in the price of kauri timber has been sanctioned on the recommendation of the Board of Trade. Hitherto approved kauri has been sold at a lower price than totara or rimu. WAIWERA’S SMALLPOX CASE. AUCKLAND, Feb 9. Tli? steamer Waiwera, which has j been in quarantine via Newcastle on January 3lst from England via Newcastle and Sydney (owing to a case of mild small pox aboard) has been released. The patient has practically roj covered. There was no recurrence of , the disease on the vessel. i RUNAWAY MOTOR-CAR. | THE WELLINGTON INCIDENT. 1 CLARKE DECLARED INSANE i WELLINGTON, February 7. As a- sequel to four persons being injured by a runaway motor-car in Mani Chester street on December 23rd., Charles Joseph Clarke appeared at the Supreme Court to-day to answer a charge of having caused actual bodih harm. The defence was that accused was insane at the time of the occuirenee. After hearing evidence, including that of medical men, the jury returned the following verdict: —“We find that the prisoner was insane at 'he time of the commission of the offence, and we declare that we acquit him on account of his insanity.” The following riders were added:—(l) Regarding the granting of licenses we think that steps ought to be taken by the City Council before granting a license to instruct applicants that a medical certificate ought to be produced; (2) we also thinit that stops ought to be taken to see that the speed limit is reduced in the busy streets of the city.

In answer to his Honor, the foreman of the jury said that the speed 'unit in the city was sixteen mile an hour. ! His Honour said that he would communicate the matter to the Minister ( f Justice. The verdict of the jury c.is reduced to the special form provided y the Act, and the prisoner was ordered to he kept in strict custody at the mental hospital at Porirun during t 1 c pleasure of the Minister of Justice. VIEWS OF .LABOUR. AUCKLAND, February ■).' Mr Hills, President of the Industrial Association, said the Association up to the present had met labour amicably. They were trying to lift industry to >- higher plane and when the occasion arose they would ask the view of Labour whenever they wanted it

AN OVERHAULING PROCESS

WELLINGTON, Eob. 7

Sixtv school inspectors and training college headmasters will meet the Minister of Education in conference tomorrow to discuss an unusually important agenda. “This Parliament of Education,” remarked the Hon C. J. Parr to a representative of the “Lyttelton limes,

••will he asked : What are we gel tin from the primary school course 1 Is the result as satidaetuiy as that of twenty years ago in the way efficiency in teaching the ‘three RV. Is our system producing results which meet the needs of modern conditions? These are some of the practical questions requiring an answer and theie is the point of reducing the school age from sixteen to twelve, and the postprimary course. I also want the advice of experts on the training of backward pupils, an authorised list of standardised school hooks, methods of inspu lion and the difficult subject of sex instruction in the schools.”

SOLDIERS PROTESTING. HAW ERA, Feb f). The Returned Soldiers’ Association motioned protesting against the proposed dis-establishment of the Second Queen Alexandra's Mounted Rifles and the Eleventh Taranaki Rifles Regiment 01 , the ground that the Second Regiment was the first volunteer regiment and the Eleventh is the only rifle regiment in the Dominion and first New Zealand Volunteer Regiment in action in the late war. It was further stig--1 gested that no regiment that lias been on active service is dis-estahlishod.