TELEGRAMS

Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1922, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

[by TELEGRAPH —PSR EilESfl ASSOCIATION] BANK OFFICERS’ GUILD: WELLINGTON, Jan. 27. During the last few days the executive council of the New Zealand Bank Officers Guild, comprising 37 , delegates from different parts of the Dominion, has been attending the third annual conference of the Guild.

The election of officers resulted:— President, Mr W. B. Williams (Wellington); vice-presidents, Messrs L. H. Wilkie (Auckland), J. Shaw (Palmerston North), K. G. Butters (Christchurch), G. 11. Davies (Dunedin), executive committee, ' Messrs P. Newton (Union Bank), A. G. Henderson, H. J. King, W. A. Pavitt, J. W. Bright (Bank of New Zealand), W. I'Y (Houston, P. D. Menard (National Bank' of Australasia), H. A. Templar (Bank of Nw South Wales), W .C. E. Rohmer' (Commercial Bank of Australia). 1 BRITISH SEAMEN’S FUND. j WELLINGTON, Jan. 27. j At a meeting of the executive of the ' War Relief Association, the New Zealand Society of the Acknowledgment of Debt to British Seamen’s Fund submitted its annual report. The Advisory Boat'd has sent ft P' ter requesting that the association should act as tnlstees of the fund by investigating their local cases under some system of reciprocity as exists between Dominion war relief societies. Mr M’lntosli stated that Mr Tripp I and himself had conferred with the body in regard to their suggestion. They had a really large sum of money, £IBO,OOO, and did not know what to do with it. Mr M’lntosh thought the association could help the fund in seeking people and investigating claims

from their own records. The body had seenied pleased with the idea, and lie requested the speaker and Mr Tripp to act as trustees, which tliey consented to do. The whole work was to be

dealt with by a committee, rj. Mr Aldridge, R.S.A.: We have spent 3 money from our fund for their cause h already. > r Another member said that seven apis plications had been received since ,v Thursday morning. The chairman thought they were doing good service, and that no one would be better able to deal with the > matter than the association. It was decided to appoint Mr M’ln- • J tosh and Mr Tripp to confer with the body again. WOMAN KILLED BY TRAIN. » WELLINGTON, January 30. Mrs Hinds aged 32, was killed at Kaiwarra on Saturday evening. She intended to get off there and found the train was leaving and attempting to jump off was dragged under the wheels. Three carriages passed over her and through the train pulled up at once, as the guard saw the incident, she was dead when extracted, badly mangled. She was the wife of a. labor- I or, and leaves two children. | At an inquest on Mrs Hinds, the | Coroner found a verdict of accidental j death and that there had been no negligence oil the part of anybody. BRIDGE RE-ERECTED. WANGANUI, January 30 The restoration of Wheruakura railway bridge, is sufficiently advanced to allow trains across slowly, the first , train to do so being Wellington to New Plymouth express this afternoon. INDECENT LANGUAGE. GREYMOUTH, January 30. William Baldergtone, Secretary of Blackball Miners Union was convict- ] ed to-day and ordered to pay cost,on a charge of using indecent language at Stillwater Railway station on 9 December 6th., to Frederick Charles \ Elliott, manager of the Blackball Coal fl Company. J CHANGE OF VENUE. DUNEDIN, Jan 30. 1 Justice Sim granted an application by the Crown for a change of venue of tli t , James Hayne charges of abortion. The application was opposed on behalf of 1 - Hhyne. Tho trial was fixed for the en- • suing sittings at Christchurch.