TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 April 1921, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS.

I VifLEQRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION] ' RECEIPTS FOR FINANCIAL YEAR, WELLINGTON, April 14. The gross revenue received by the I various receivers of land revenue for the ■ financial year ended March 31st was £1,734,147. This amount shows a very substantial increase over previous years and exceeds the 1920 figures by £281,79q. For the past six years receipts have bedn as follows: 1916, £1,286,524; 1917, £1,241, 366; 1918, £1,212,242; 1919, £1,246,815; 1920, £1,452,352; 1921, £1,735,14. The increase is due principally states the Hon. D. H. Guthrie to the more extensive purchase and settlement o. lands.

The gross receipts for the year under tho Discharged Soldiers’ Settlement Act amount to £1,229,492, making the total sum received by the Department last year £2,963,639.

I WORKERS’ DWELLINGS, i REGULATIONS GAZETTED. WELLINGTON, April 14. Regulations under , the Housing Act 1919, are gazetted. They provide inter alia that every worker who desires to acquire a workers’ dwelling shall make application to the Housing Board on a prescribed form, and a declaration in support of his application. The application is to he accompanied by £l. Every applicant shall, whdn he agrees to purchase a dwelling under the conditions specified by the Housing Superintendent enter into an agreemdnt to purchase the applicant shall pay to the superintendent the remaining portion of the deposit required by the superintendent in accordance with the Act. Should tho applicant desire to withdraw his application at any time, the whole or any part of the deposit paid by him may, at the discretion of the Board be refunded. Provision is made for the sale transfer assignmentlease, mortgage or other disposition of the whole of the purchaser’s interest in a dwelling, subject to the consent of the Housing Board.

AN ESCAPED PRISONER

AUCKLAND, April 14

j The prisoner George Vincent Keys, {who escaped from the quarry gang at -lit. Eden prison on Saturday was still a 1 at large at latest advices. After a : brush with a warder at Titirangi on Tuesday evening, when he put his pursuer hors do combat with a kick on tho body. Keys has managed to keep I out of sight of his pursuers in the thick scrub of the Titrangi district, and there is a feeling that under tho cover of dark- ; ness last night, he slipped through the ! cordon of pursuers. ! SHORTAGE OF TRUCKS. i WELLINGTON, April 11. j A shortage of railway trucks is so l i ously delaying many vessels in WellingI ton. Coal boats atro affected most. I Some of the bigger vessels from oversea ‘ i ports have been detained so long that | the patience of the shipping companies iis almost exhausted. o*ne boat arrived 1 i recently with just over 5000 tons of | coal on board. Under ordinary eirctimj stancso the vessel should have dischargj eel her cargo at a rate of 1000 to 1500 j tons a day, and it should not have boon necessary for her to remain fti port longer than live days. Actually, the rate of discharge was about 450 tons, a day, and tho delay probably involved a sum of £450 a day. Tile delay in the | case of other vessels lias been even more | serious. j Tli e Railway Department’s freight service seems to have collapsed completely within the last few weeks, stated one shipping authority. “In most cases the men are paid while they are waiting for trucks for us, and this is an expensive matter.” ELDERLY MAN’S SUICIDE. WELLINGTON, April 17. Peter Hatton, a miller, an elderly man of independent means, and wellknown in Wellington was found hanging in an outhouse, attached to liis residence in South Wellington this morning. Deceased had been in illliealtli. 110 was seen by bis wife shortly before ho took bis life. Subsequently lie was found to be missing, and a search being made Miller was found hanging from a rafter with a scarf round his neck. DUNEDIN HARBOUR COLLISION. DUNEDIN, April 17. A collision occurred in Victoria , Channel on Saturday between tho Otago Harbour Board’s old pilot launch | and the Huddart' Parker steamer Wes- c tralia, outward bound for Melbourne. The launch, which was subsequently j towed to Port Chalmers, was in charge j of Mr McKenzie. It was used as a j pilot boat for many years. She is now , in the service of tho Harbour Board j engineering department. Sho was j. badly damaged and now lies awash 1 alongside one of the punts at Port Chalmers. After the collision occurred Mr McKenzie was assisted on board tho Westralia, and subsequently landed before the vessel left tho harbour. | Tho Westralia suffered no damage and , continued her voyage. j