TELEGRAMS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 February 1922, Page 3

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FREEZING WORKERS’ DISPUTE CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 15.

Tlie dispute between Borthwick, Ltd. and their employees at the Belfast freezing works has been setttled. All the men will resume to-morrow morning. A compromise was arranged through the Labour Department which advised both parties, and acted as mediator.

DROWNING FATALITIES. INVERCARGILL, Feb. 15,

"The police were advised to-night that while a boat, containing two men, was crossing the Orcti river to Otatara, it capsized. One of tlie occupants, a nian named Cullian, reached the shore, but the other, Ackers, is missing, and it is feared that he was drowned. Two constables have gone out to search for the missing man. AUCKLAND, Feb. 15. Tlie body of Oscar Seaderg, fisherman, who was missed from a. filshing boat on February 7th was recovered at Campbell’s Bay. TEMPERING THE WIND. AUCKLAND, February 16. Hon Parr in the course of an interview to-day, said the reduction of teachers’ salaries would lie on a slightly graduated scale, beginning with a reduction of ten pounds and rising to fifteen pounds maximum. The secondary and technical school teachers will be relatively oil the same plane.

A SAD CASE

AUCKLAND, February 16,

Alfred Craig Hansen, aged 63, committed suicide in the police cells by tying the strips of his shirt around his neck. At the inquest Constable Allen stated the deceased was committed at Charleston to two years detention at Rotoroa Island. When ho arrived at Auckland railway station the prisoner attempted to jump through the window. He was placed in an ordinary cell. He deliberately knocked his head against the wall and was removed to a padded cell, wearing only his ( .«at, trousers and shirt. His boots with laces were removed. Twenty minutes later lie was found dead with two pieces of his shirt- around his neck. The Coroner returned a verdict of death bv strangulation. ’ BLENHEIM February 1(5. William Rodgersoii, about 50, a married man, suicided this morning by shooting himself with a levolvei. He had been ill-health for a long time. FALL IN WAGES PREDICTED. DUNEDIN. Eeb. 1(5. At tlie Arbitration Court. Judge I‘laser this morning remarked that there was likely to be a fair drop in wages during March. Later, however, he remarked it might, be that the reduction in money wages may come at the beginning of winter, and it was to be Imped this would bring about a corresponding reduction in general prices. They were told it was wages which wer,, keeping up the cost to consumers, and that profiteering was gone. If so, it was hoped that any drop in wages would he followed by a cost of living drop so as to balance.

A DEATH AND AN ACCIDENT. DUNEDIN, Feb. 16. Peter Mulder, a watersider, aged 50, married, .fell dead in Customhouse Square. F. R. Willon, a visitor from Oamaru was found lying alongside the railway line at St. Leonards last night, with his head gashed and unconscious. It is surmised that he fell from the express or a, local train earlier in the evening. From a steamer ticket in his pocket lie appeared to have hooked a passage on the Paloona for Melbourne f'e is recovering. .