TELEGRAMS. VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 May 1921, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS.

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RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION

A ROTORUA REQUEST

AUCKLAND, May 18

Tlic Board of Education considered a request from Rotorua to give effect to a resolution carried at a meeting of householders that religious instruction should be given in the State school there. The chairman, Mr Banks, said he was in favour of this course where a. committed and a district meeting were unanimous; On a vote five were for and five against. Tho chairman said that the question should be decided by a majority, and declined to give his casting vote. Things, therefore, remain ns at present. SUPREME COURT. AUCKLAND, May 20 William Joseph O’Dyer, who admitted obtaining £74 by valueless cheques, was sentenced at the Supreme Court to three years’ imprisonment. A "BOAT ACCIDENT. GISBORNE, May 20. • During the progress of salvage operations at the schooner Hnnnui, stranded on Waikanae beach, this morning, a boat capsized in the surf. Another boat that put off to its assistance also capsized. It is reported three men are missing. THREE MEN DROWNED FURTHER PARTICULARS. GISBORNE, May 20. The drowned in the Hunnui fatality are; Captain Charles Anderson, master of the Huanui, married. His wife resides at Parnell, and four children. Captain Adolphus Martin of Gisborne, married with, wife and family; James Hadfield, a waterside worker, married, of Gisborne.

Salvaging operations commenced this morning, a line being set ashore from the tug bfaroro. A boat conveying the line containing four men capsized in the surf. Captain Anderson of Huanui immediately launched his boat from the shore and when it reached the locality of the other boat, about a quarter of a mile out, it also capsized, throwing the three occupants into the sea. Two of the men swam ashore, reaching the sand in an exhausted condition, Anderson, who was handicapped by heavy sea boots, bung on to the bottom ot the lxmt, but was turned over several times by the waves and lie disappeared. Meanwhile two of the men from the Karoro's boat succeeded in getting ashore, but Martin and Hadfield. who had been clinging on the bottom of the boat were washed away as it overturned in the surf.