TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 June 1922, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

[by TEI.KGI'.AI’II — I’KIl IMtESS ASSOCIATION] DUNEDIN NORTH NOMINATIONS. DUNEDIN, June FT. ,I’vgg (.Liberal), Clarke (Independent Reform i, and Munro (.Labour) have been nominated for Dunedin North. A SHUNTER KILLED. DUNEDIN. June 12. Thomas Mc.Uullan, while employed shunting in the railway goods yard early in the morning, stumbled and Jell while attempting to step on to the cowcatcher attached to the engine, his head getting beneath the cow catcher. His neck was broken and head badly smashed, lie leaves a wife and large family. MOTOR car AND (HO COLLIDE. PALMERSTON N., June 12. At Shannon on Saturday night, a motor ear and gig collided. AA illiam Davidson, outplayed at Mangahau, the occupant of the ear, was struck by the shall of the gig and seiiously injured. 11, Mclntosh of -Makerna, was severely, cut l.y glass. Both were taken to Pa Ime i stun North hospital. SOLICITOR IN TROUBLE. AUCKLAND. June 12. At the Supreme Court. Henry E. Eliott, solicitor of Opotiki, who was recently lined .CUM for failure to get his accounts audited, was called upon ui the instance of the Law Society to show* enlist' wliv ho should uol !><' struck off the mils. This is the second offence alleged against the defendant ol the same description. Justice Stnngei let the matter stand over for a month, to give Elliott a chance to .settle l"e costs of £ls 15s. He remarked the. a recurrence of the lapse might see the offender' si ruck nil' the mil '. MINISTER OF EDUCATION. WELLINGTON June S. Interviewed with regard to the bars expressed hv the Auckland Edina Imu Board that he intended to abolish education hoards throughout the Dominion on the ground of economy, the Mmislei for Education (the Hon C. -I ■ larr) said that so far as he was concerned he knew nothing of such an intention. “The position in regard to lo< al educatDual goieminent,” he added, “stands just where it did before. Nothing fresh has happened. 1 know nothing whatever about the newspaper artio.es which are alleged to have been inspired. The Auckland hoard seems U> he rather afraid of its own shadow." Asked whether there would he any Imb-lailion on the subject during the centin <r session the Minister said: I think 7t*extremely improbable, 1 mve never concealed my impression that an overhaul of educational machinery in regard to local government will sour time he necessary, but the present is, certainly not the time fur it.

RETURNED SOLDIERS’ ASSOCIATION. AA T ELLINGTON. Juno 9. The annual meeting ol the Dominion Council of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers Association, continued its sittings. The president, IB igadier-Gcnc-ral Sir A. H. Russell was in the chair, The Organisation and Constitution Committee brought up a report o».'. a number of tho remits. The committee reeommende.l that certain remits he struck out. “Yoiir committee feels.” continued tho report, “that reasons for its action are self-evident. In its opinion it is highly desirable Ihnt the constitution, which has been subjected to radical alteration year by year since the inception of the ussoeial ion, is now in such a form that it should he lell as it .stands so as to ensure the smooth working of (ho assoeinl ion. The alterations pioposod were all of a minor nature in many cases, in .the opinion of vour rnpuuittee, and would not have been well received by a large section of the council.” The committee also recommended that the council reaffirm the desirability of continuing the district scheme of organisation as at present provided for in the rules, and that no alterations whatsoever he made in the constitution this year. The committee reported that it could not' make a recommendation regarding affiliation with ’the British Empire Service League.