VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 April 1921, Page 3

VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS.

[by TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION] MUNICIPAL DWELLINGS. WANGANUI, April 22. Tho Wanganui Borough Council, by way of experiment, has completed tho erection of several municipal dwellings. The cost of a four-roomed dwelling, built of hollow concrete blocks is £745, and tho cost of a four-roomed dwelling, built of solid concrete is £698. The cost in both instances includes plumbing and fittings. A FOOTBALL FATALITY. CHEISTCHURCH, April 23. During; the Christchurch-Sydenham Senior Rugby match on the Show Grounds to-day, A. Aitken, a Sydenham player, received a blow above the heart and died on the way to the hospital. Aitken played because of a shortage in the team. During the first half someone cannoned into him. He was taken to the dressing room and became unconscious. He was a Canterbury representative in 1907 and 1908, and was married.

FOOTBALLER'S DEATH. CHRISTHCURCH, April 25. At the inquiry into the death of Aitken, a member of the Sydenham Rugby team, which occurred during the j progress of a match against Christchurch, the evidence showed that deceased complained of feeling unwell after tackling an opponent and retired. He received attention from a member of the Ambulance Brigade, but collapsed, and died before reaching the hospital. The coroner returned a. verdict that death was due to heart failure. He i further found that there was no rough play and no apparent breach of the rules. A BLASTING ACCIDENT. AUCKLAND, April 24. While blasting rock on bis property at Rangitoto to-day, Charles Nicholson had his right hand blown off. He also lost the tips of the fingers of his left ! hand, and had an eye injured. He is 35 years of age, married, with four i children, and is an employee of the Har- | hour Board.

GOVERNMENT POLICY. ; ' . WELLINGTON, April 24. ■ , | The Acting Premier has replied to ’ j representations from Mr 11. E. Holland, t | ALP., who lias complained of the cenj worship of certain boohs and pamphlets I which he claims contain the most valtt- ! able presentation of the case for con- 1 ! structive industrialism, and has also \ | urged the release of the imprisoned man. ! Sir FD. Bell, the Attorney-General, ! 1 j says that it is neither unlawful nor se- ’ : (Titious to advocate the wildest forms of _ | Socialism or communism, but it. is unI j lawful to advocate murder and violence j ns legitimate methods for the attainment i of political ends. ’I “The Government,” he says, “does ! not intend to interfere with liberty of ; speech or action. It does intend to prei vent, and will use its powers to prevent, ' violence and lawlessness. Its officers, I will, in accordance with a duty imposed I I on them by law, endeavour to bring to justice persons who refuse to comply , with that condition. The Government : will not establish the practice of exer- | cising the perogative of pardon in fn--1 vour of such persons, when convicted, " j where the possession of such literature I may be technically correct, but that, is i not the offence seriously contemplated jby law. The circulation of documents, j or the possession of a number of doouj ments, obviously for purposes of oirouI lation, is in itself plainly deliberate advoeacy of murder. Therefore, it i.s criminal and punishable.” > j INSPECTION OE COAL MINES. ' REPORT ON CONDITIONS. S' 1 e j WELLINGTON, April 25. e i During the recent conference regarde i ing the coal dispute, representatives of u i the Miners Federation asserted that | conditions of work in New Zealand col- | Jieries were unsatisfactory. The Under i Secretary of mines has since received a \j report on the subject from the Chief InI j fipector of coal mines, in the course of : which he says that during the past six II months lie has inspected all the princi--11 ! pal collieries of the Dominion, some 0 | more than once. In no case has he ’ i found a serious defect warranting a Jj j prosecution without further warning. ; Tie found the collieries generally satisi factory and in no case had the work- ' men’s inspector recently reported eonI ditions as had or “rotten.” . AT DUNEDIN, j DUNEDIN, This Day. Anzac Day is being observed ns a * holy day. The weather is dull and j ( ’. threatening.