TELEGRAMS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 February 1922, Page 4

TELEGRAMS

1 [IV —j'KJt .I’IIESS ASSOCIATION HARBOUR. BOARDS. PROPOSED LEG ISLA'FION. WELLINGTON, February 1. When th ft Harbours Act Amendment Bill was before the Legislative Council gir Francis Bell indicated the powers the Government intends to give harbour boards next session to do/ with the reclamation of mud flats. The boards, he said, would not be allowed, as wa s the Crown, under the present Bill, to part Avith the freehold of this reclaimed land, because it was the endowments of the harbour boards concerned and not, as in the case of mud flats vested in the Crown, the property of the people fig a whole. Further harbour boards would not be allowed without the approval of the Marine Department’s experts to determine what land should be taken from the sea and turned into dry land. The power would have to be very carefully safeguarded. Boards would be enabled to lease to private people for reclamation such part of the land vested in them which rvas in the harbour proper, and which actually and essentially, and not merely in the opinion of the board, was not required for navigation purposes. Boards would be allowed to grant renewable leases, but -would not be allowed to sell the areas.

CHARGE ,OF ROBBERY. WELLINGTON, Jan 31.

jPgrcy Carmichael, f;he second t man prrested fqr qlleged complicity in breaking and entering the Paekakariki railway rpfre.pbjnent rpgins, t takjng.a safe anfl stealing ,127 ,jsov-ereigns and £sl iu silver, was ,brought ; befqre -the Court. The pqiice intimated that inquiries were ,nqt yet .completed. iVcqused was .remanded. It is statecl that interesting ,developments ape expected .in connectipn with the case.

G;\rden;ers conference. ,CHRISTCi,U,RQH> February 2. A. Gprjipqers’ Union conference drew up rules for .thy New Zealand Gardeners’ Association of workers.completed, Q laipis -for the Dominion Award, qpd decided to take steps to retain .uniformity in the conditions of work for gardeners in the various industrial districts.

ALLEGED fraud. WELLINGTON, February 2. M r Justice Hosking gave judgment, in the c anteen funds case, Powles and others versus Mason, an action to recover £1227 plus interest for which defendant was alleged to have come under liability, by reason of fraudulent conduct.

The Court exonerated defendant of fraud Imt ordered him to pay for four tanks which had been supplied to defendant’s order at a cost of £34, and paid for by the canteens’ management tom m itt'ee.