VARIOUS DOMINION ITEM.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1921, Page 1

VARIOUS DOMINION ITEM.

TELEGRAMS

BY TELEGHAPH —PBESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. RACING COMMISSION. AUCKLAND, April 19 The Racing Commission is hearing evidence in Auckland. It will leave for Hamilton on Thursday, proceeding fhence to To Kuiti and Wanganui. A LABOUR SET-BACK. WELLINGTON, April Casting up the results of the Wellington School Committee elections, it appears that there is a heavy set-back awaitihg the official Labour candidates when the municipal elections provide the tort of the ballot. With the sole exception of Te Art where the 'Labour ticket was returned, fehool committee candidates of that colour received poor support from householders. In the working class districts, Wellington South and Berhampore, the Labour candidate failed to secure election. The voting at Berhampore showed that the most favoured Labour supporter was thirty vote below the fewest successful candidate. Free school books and the reported reduction of the education estimates were the chief topics discu&ffed. “Cannot children obtain free school hooks now ?” asked a householder of the Te Ato school district.

“They can,” answered the chairman of the committee, ‘‘but parents naturally object to the method by which those free hooks can be obtained. 1 object to paying for every book used by my children in school, bfot I object more to the idea of going to the headmaster and saying I am too pool' to buy this book. That form has heed used to kill the demand for free school hooks, and it has killed it dead.”

fireblight DANGER. MINISTERIAL inspection. CAMBRIDGE, April* 19. The Hon AV. Nosworthy, Minister of Agriculture, accompanied by Messrs J A Young (Waikato), and R. F. Bollard (Raglan) M.P.’s and an orchardist expert, visited the Waikato yesterday. He met a topres'entatiye gathering of farmers and inspected the hawthorn hedges between Tamahere and Cambridge. The Minister motored many miles. The farmers emphasised the point that the destruction of hedges would mean an enormous expense and reduce the country’s output. In the evening «T large meeting ol farmelg was held at Cambridge. A resolution was carried that a protective belt should he formed north arid south of Waikato so that the hawthorn hedge might he saved in that area. Mr Nosworthy gave a sympathetic hearing and promised to confer with his colleagues to see what could lie done. R.S.A. AND ELECTIONS. WELLINGTON, April 19. Tn view of the coming municipal elections the executive of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association passed a resolution requesting the various associations to adhere to the constitution of the asociation by refraining from active partrepation in municipal politics.

A BAN ON CIVIL SERVANTS WELLINGTON, April 19. It is announced that tho Public Service Commissioner will not allow leave to Civil Servants to assist the deputy returning officers at the municipal elections. Such leave has been granted in tho past. The Commissioner, however, does not believe that the principle of allowing Civil Servants to assist is a sound one, particularly at a time when there is a certain amount of unemployment.