TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1922, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

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AIR RAID SUFFERERS

RELIEF OF CHILDREN

WELLINGTON, April 20

Further news has come to the Prime YiUlster from the High Commissioner I of good work for children who suffered from shock which was made possible by New Zealand contributors to the fund for the relief of sufferers in England from German air raids. Seven children are being provided for out of New Zealand contributions at the Heritage Craft Schools at Cliailey, Sussex Of the first seven little ones who were taken charge of five have now left school and have been replaced. One girl was greatly benefited by treatment lint was too ‘•mutual” to be permanently cured and has been returned to her mother. Another girl, paralysed, has gone to an. advanced school to be trained in fine needle work. Two elder girls have been provided with situations and one bpv, wlio bad a shattered leg amputated, has been transferred to an advanced school. The children who have taken the places of those who have left school are all equally deserving cases. In connection with the charitable work that is being done at Cliailey, the London ‘ Times” oil last Trafalgar |)ny published an allegorical poem, “The Alastcr Shipwright,” by RearAdmiral R. A. Hopgood, C. 8., illustrated by Lieut.-Colonel Harold AVyllie, and dedicated to all who served at the Heritage Schools for crippled boys and girls at Cliailey.

UR EWER A LANDS. WELLINGTON, April 20.

Alcssrs Harold Herbert Carr and Raleigh John Knight have been appointed Commissioners for the purposes of the Urewera Lands Act.

The function of the Commissioners is to carry into effect the scheme of consolidation agreed upon between the Government and the Urewera Natives with regard to the respective Govern- ' ment and Native interests in the Urerewa country. For carrying out their task the Commissioners are entrusted with considerable powers. They are lenipowered. for example, to effect! where necessary exchanges of Crown land for Native lands, to decide in which cases equity requires that a sum of money should be paid in connexion with consolidation or exchanges required to cany out the scheme, and to deal if need be with <mtside areas owned bv Natives.

(lISBOBXK SKAT. OISBOBXK. April 21. Mr Wilford, Leader of the United IA hern I and Labour Party to-day selected Mr (‘I corgi; Wildish. Mayor, to stand for Hishornc scat. AV.ATKU KD BITTER. OISBOXRE. .April 21. At the Magistrate’s Court the Ok it i j Dairy Uactorv was charged with solling hatter containing a greater percentage of water than allowed hv the 'Foods and Drugs Act. The Magistrate Air Barton, said the evidence showed an excess of 1.24 of water. lie imposed a penalty of £2o. j i P. AND T. ATEX. i AUCKI.AXD, Anril 21 The Auckland section of the P. and T .Officers’ Association, 200 being pro- 1 sent, passed a resolution to-night with only three dissentients as follows:—-’ “That while reaffirming our loyalty and allegiance to the King and the . constitution, this meeting expresses j its absolute confidence in its absolute confidence in the executive of the Association in endeavouring to come to 'an lamieablo 'settlement, and will strongly support it hi any action it may see fit to take.” TYPHOID AT AUCKLAND. AUCKLAXJ), April 21. Sixty cases of typhoid have occurred in Avondale Mental Hospital, and there has been one death. Xo notification has been made as the asylum is not under the control of the Health Office. Nine Iresh cases were reported in Alt. Albert to-dav.

FATAL ACCIDENT

AUCKLAND, April 21. An elderly woman, Mrs Clara Vickers, aged (i2, died at tlu* hospital as a result of being knocked down by a motor, in Ponsonhy Road. Her busband, George James Vickers, a joiner and a resident of Grey Lvnn, is an inmate of the hospital. ... i IMMIGRANTS ARRIVE. ! WELLINGTON, April 21. The largest draft of immigrants yet j to arrive from the Old Country is due j at Wellington next Sunday evening by j the Waimana from Southampton, j There are on board, all told, 931 passengers, who include 757 nominated pas- | s.ngers and 1(57 ex-imperial soldiers, the latter coming out under the Overseas Settlement Scheme. There are 337 men, 234 women, and 353 children. The nominated passengers, according to custom, have been guaranteed employment by their friends, and the exImperial soldiers also have positions awaiting them upon their arrival. The immigrants are representative of near- j Iv every branch of industry, and in- J elude riveters, mechanics, electrical on- | gineers, farm Inbourerr, miners, print- j ers, fittes. sawyrars, and weavers.! The Immigration Department has all I arrangements for the arrival of the I newcomers well in hand, and the friends of the immigrants have notified the ; department that they will meet the j new arrivals either at Wellington, or at j other ports, or at stops along the line, i Of tin' nominated immigrants 257 are men, 207 are women, n’nd 293 are 1 children. There are 259 immigrants for Auckland. 215 for Wellington, 93 for Lyttelton, and 85 for Dunedin. To Westport there are coming no fewer than 93 of flu* Waimaua’s draft, of whom 72 are nominated immigrants. There are also 25 immigrants on the ship for Grevmouth, eight for Pieton,