TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 April 1922, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

[BY TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION]

BURGLARIES IN WELLINGTON. VERY LITTLE SPOIL. WELLINGTON, April 5. Each day sees some fresh burglary ! reported to the police, but although \ operations have been directed mainly against business houses, and several safes have been blown open with explosives, the burglars have been rewarded with very little in the, nature-of spoil. Two fresh cases were reported to-day. List night some person or persons paid a visit to St. Mark’ Church and succeeded in blowing open the safe. Their work was in vain, for there was nothing of value in the safe. Another place to receive a call last night was the Union Steam Ship Company’s office main attention being paid to the local office. Drawers in all parts of the office were prised open by the Lurglars. When the local manager arrived this morning he found his office strewn with papers. The total sum found by the marauders was ninepence, this being taken from the typists’ room. The theory advanced is that those responsible for the visit secreted themselves in the building prior to closing time, and made their exit by a side door.

LAWN TENNIS. VISIT OF N.Z. MEN’S TEAM. abandoned. WELLINGTON, April L In view of th G fact that four members of the original men’s team have notified the New Zealand Lawn T c nni s Association that they are unable to make the trip to New South Wales, the Management Committee has reluctantly decided to abandon the men’s visit this season. The ladies’ team of four players have all accepted, and will leave from Wellington by the Manuka on 13th. inst.

AN OTAGO MILLIONAIRE. DUNEDIN, April 4. An Otago man who has been in the district during most of his long lifetime, generally working hard, is the heir to a Scottish estate, shortly to be administered valued at considerably over a million sterling.

AUCKLAND RESOLUTION. AUCKLAND, April 6. The decision of the I’, and T. Officers' Association to affiliate with I he Alliance of Labour was the subject of discussion at to-day’s Auckland Chamber of Commtrre luncheon. The following resolution was carried: ‘‘That the Association or t lie affiliation of any of our public service bodies with sectional organisations, such as the Alliance of Labour, would he subversive of a good Government and opposed to public interest,, and that the Government he urged to take all possible steps to oppose such affiliation.” The following amendment was rejected, only the mover and seconder voting for it: ‘‘That the Chamber of Commerce Committee take the necessary steps to interview representatives of the P. and T. Department in the Auckland province and discuss the matter before passing so drastic a resolution as asking the Government to practically dragoon them into-reversing the course they have pursued.” The mover of the amendment alone dissented from the resolution.

ODD FELLOW SHIP. CHRISTCHURCH, April 6. The Oddfellows’ Conference passed a resolution that a deputation comprising representatives of all the Friendly Societies should interview the Premier, with a- view to having the Provident Act amended in the direction of allowing exemption of €SO for each child of a member of a Friendly Society when assessing the parents’ income, similar to the income tax exemption already in force; also to withdraw from participating in the Government’s after discharge sickness scheme, pertaining to soldier-members, and to repeal a resolution of a former conference authorising the keeping of an after discharge sickness fund account.