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Hokitika Guardian, 5 July 1922, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

The secretary of the Dominion Sportsmen's Association announces that there were 80,7502 signatures to the petition to Parliament praying that a commission to be set up to go into the question o', legalising the bookmaker. This is considered most satisfactory.

V| i Harle Giles has been advised by the Minister lor Labour that, owing to retrenchment his services as a Conciliation Commissioner will lx* dispensed with at Auckland. His place will he taken by Ml I’. Hally. The Minister expresses his 'appreciation of the faithful and successful manner in

which Air Giles carried out his duties

Mr N. D. Hood, who has been appointed, Chief Surveyor of Ships, Chief Inspector of .Machinery, and Chief Examiner of Engineers for the Dominion, joined the Marine and Inspection of Machinery Department in February, 1903. Air Hood received his initial training in the School Engineering Works at Nelson, during which time two iron vessels wore constructed there the s.s. Wakatu and the sailing-ves-sel Uno. In 1880 Mr Hood went, to X-otfiind. and for several years was with tho well-known firm of shipbuilders Messrs Alex Stephens and Sons. He then entered the Union Steamship Company’s sendee, in which lie spent thirteen years, when lie accepted an appointment with the Blackball Steam Ship Company, and for the last five years of his connexion with this firm held the position of superintendent engineer. Since entering the Public Service'Air Hood has had charge of the Nelson and Canterbury districts respectively. and latterly, was Assistant Chief at Head Office. Mr 11 oo<j has always taken a lively interest in the welfare of the incinliers generally of the engineering profession, and was in 1902 president of the Australasian Institute of Alarine Engineers.