VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 July 1921, Page 4

VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS.

TELEGRAMS.

[ry telegraph—per press association] WAR MEMORIAL. DUNEDIN, July 4. | The Dunedin City Council recently ; invited applications for designs for a j war memorial, and 63 were received from New Zealand, Australia, and - Tasmania. The assessor was Mr Ed- j mund R. Wilson, architect, Invercargill, j He has awarded the first prize of £2OO t 0 Prouse and Glimmer, architects. , Auckland; second, £SO, Reginald Oliphant, Heretaunga St., Hastings, dm assessor also honourably mentions de- | signs sent "in by G. F. Mmmings, Wei- j iington; W. Gray Young, Wellington; \y. M. Page, Wellington ; and IT. A. Westonholm, Napier. WOOL SALE. WELLINGTON. July 4. The fourth wool sale of tlm season took place at Wellington Town Hall to-day, being held with the co-operation of the British-Australasia Wool Renlij sattion Association, which limits the I quantities offered and fixed minimum I reserves. The attendance was good. | and bidding brisk. There was little I variation in prices from those realised jin May. The catalogue comprised | 10.173 bales. Tt is estimated that 00 i per cent of the wool offered was disoosed of. America- was little interested in the last sale, and again was inconspicuous the principal competitors being Bradford and the Continent. i DULLER MINE FATALITY. j WESTPORT. July 4. A trucker. George P. Jack was killed in the Westport Coal Company’s Ironbridgo mine at one o’clock this afternoon, through being caught by the coal tubs on the haulage road. MINISTERIAL EXPLANATION. WELLINGTON, July 1 In the early part of last mouth an article appeared in the “Lyttelton Limes” drawing attention to discrepances in tlio amount of the Customs receipts as set forth on the one hand in the Monthly Astraet of Statistics, and on the other hand in tin- “Gazette.” and asking for an explanation. The article also drew attention to discrepan- | * ics in the railway returns.

“T have looked into the question so tar as the Customs Department is concerned.” stated th c Hon AY. Downic Stewart, Minister of Customs, to your (orrespomlent. “and L find that the explanation is as follows:-

“The Customs Department in its returns published in the “Gazette” shows : lie act ual collections for each calendar month, that is, the gross fetal collected at all ports up to and inclusive of the ’ast day of each month. These are obtained by telegraphic returns, On the other hand, the figures which appear in tip, Abstract of Statistics, and which arc supplied by the Treasury, repre- ; cut the net revenue entered in the Treasury hooks for the month. As tit Treasury books in Wellington arc clos'd on the last day of the month, with the exception of the third month of each quarter, revenue collected during die last week of flic month does not reach the Treasury books until the following month. The reason for the separate publication of some of the Departmental reports published in the ‘Gazette’ is that they give more detailed information than it is possible for die Treasury or the Monthly Abstract 1 o publish. “The Government Statistician informs mo that almost exactly the same problem arose recently in Canada where trade figures were published hv different, Departments. Tt would certainly 1 )( , metre satisfactory if the information was all published from one source, and the matter is being looked into with a view to obviating the present discrepancies.” A CASE OF BIGAMY. WANOANTTT. .Tune 30. At the Magistrate’s Court to-day, ayoung man named Phillip Timothy Paul wax charged with bigamy. The police stated that accused went through the form of marriage with a young woman at Wanganui and after living with her for two weeks, left her. Accused was arrested at Wellington where his wife resided. Accused pleaded guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court ■ L "Wellington for sentence. AN HOTEL CASE. TE AWAMUTU, June 30. Mr TT. A. Young, S.M., to-day refused i re-hearing of the case against Anderson. of the To Awnmutu Hotel, whose license was recently endorsed in connexion with selling liquor after hours. The ground of the application was that the endorsement entitled the mortgagee to foreclose, with disastrous consequences. The Magistrate, in refusing the application, quoted a decision of Air Kettle S.M., and two decisions of Air S. E. McCarthy, S.AL Mr Young stated most hotels were subject either to lease or a mortgage with a clause respective to foreclosure, and if all these were exempted very few would remain subject to endorsement. The defendant was protected against forclosure by the Mortgages Extension Act, which gave the Supreme Court discretionary power.