TELEGRAMS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1922, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

juv tklkui: u-ij— run miKss association J POLITICAL. NELSON, July 14. Mr A. Gilbert, President of the than:!: r of Commerce, has been unanimously elected the Reform candidate i tlie Nelson seat. TIM AR P, July 11. M r •Pltiliu R. Needham announced Ins intention to contest tlie Tomukji electorate i s an Imlep mlent l.iberali a belli- lamin' lie. Mr Needham is a native id' this district, having been Bui n a' Waslulyke near Timaru. Last lection he set out lo contest the Palmers'ton North scat as a l.ilieral--1 .almur, but withdrew to avoid a triangular contest.

11 OSl’l T AI. CONE ER KN (' E. WELLINGTON, July 14 At the Hospital Beards’ Ccmference i t WcHiiig’oii a remit from Otago proposed the amalgamation of hospital b.nulls gene: ally throughout New 7.eah.lid ic v the treatment of consumptives with a view to pooling the capital cost and maintenance thereof in imrtien to the- ratei'Me capital value c:f the disease. I),. \ Yi'le’tlin -, Director-ici'ii-eral of Health, offered to pool the [ u.jilt'i Department’s two institutions j.,' the North Island into a national scheme to enable hospital boards lc> ,i„iil with c-oiisi.mp ion no a national basis. The i-lwitninic of the A. ueklaml Hospital Bmud refused W commit Am-k----to the sc’ic fur til" two Islam's, but said til v would c-misicl. r a scheme i-• r e-ich Island. It was deeiileil to submit a sc heme to hospital boards for i-ilisiilora' urn. V I.K’-.KIXC E!l!l > . SYDNEY, July 1 1 s .1,0 J.er 7.bemama bound Irom /p. . Diver to Bluff lias arrived in Sydney The crew assert that the vessel has been leaking badly and the.' claim that the decision to make tor Sydney followed on a chputatum \v them to the music r. , ~ , , The manager of Bntriek and t ompnnv. owners of the Abemnma, states that the vessel put into Sydney neeause a sail was lost in a blow an • the vessel was leaking a little. Let wits licit seriously damaged.