TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 May 1921, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS.

I [by TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION] | I BREAD-WEIGHT DECISION. ' AUCKLAND, May 7. A reserved decison by Mr E. C. Cutten S.M., in a case in which Walter Buchanan, Limited, bakers were charged with having sold bread, the weight of which at the time of sale was less than was presented. The Magistrate said a curious feature of the case was that the seller represented the loaf to weigh lib. 14 ozs., and it weight lib. 15| ozs. The prosecution contended that the , defendant must be presumed to have represented the loaf to have weighed 21bs. The Magistrate said the defendant represented the loaf to weigh lib 140z5., which if not a statement of its prej cise weight, was a precise statement ' of its weight and as the whole object of the Act was to prevent loaves being sold of less weight than represented surely it could not be a breach of the provisions to sell a loaf weighing more than it Avals represented to weigh, it might or might not be that the defendant is selling loaves represented to weigh only lib. 14ozs. at the price fixed by the Board of Trade for a 21b loaf and was not complying with the requirements of the Board of Trade. That however was not the question before the Court. The information was dismissed. i\ AND T. REVENUE. WELLINGTON, May 7. The Post and Telegraph revenue and expenditure figures show the total revenue last year at £2,589,364, and the expenditure at £2,554,087. There was an excess of receipts of £35,277. Thi r s is £60,636 less than the ostirnaite. Ordinary telegrams showed a falling off of £500,000, and urgent telegrams were £IOO,OOO less. Press telegrams showed a slight increase. The telephone exchange increased by £31,000.

! UNEMPLOYMENT. ; WELLINGTON, May 8. Reports just received indicate that a fairly large number of men are coming into the city from the country districts who are seeking, but are failing to secure employment. It is .stated that the farmers are cutting down the numbers of their bands and also reducing wages. A nmnbter of men have therefore left the farmers’ employment, thus further swelling the ranks of the unemployed. A MOTOR CAR, FATALITY. CHRISTCHURCH May 9 A fatal motor accident occurred yesterday on the road on the opposite side of the hartiour to Lyttelton. A family party were returning from Diamond Harbour to Church Bays, when the car suddenly swerved and went over the side of the road, falling several hundred feet. The driver, Robert Hunter, a farmer at Amberley, was badly injured, three ribs being broken, and Mrs Lackley Aster was killed. Other members jumped when the ear was momentarily held up by a wire fence on the road side and escaped with minor injuries.

DISMISSING HANDS

CHRISTCHURCH, May 9

A deputation of returned soldiers informed Mr Leadley, the local secretary of the R.S.A., that returned soldiers employed as casual hands at Christchurch goods sheds have been dismissed while immigrants are retained. The matter has been Drought tinder the notice of Hon. Mg' Guthrie.