TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 January 1923, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

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FREE LABOUR. OAAf.ATtU, Jail. 10

Work commenced at Puketiri freezing works this morning with free labour and is proceeding satisfactorily. SEAMEN’S THEFT. WELLINGTON, Jan. 10 David Mack ay, seaman, pleaded guiltv to the. theft of eight rolls of serge, valued at £lOl 14s 3d, the property of the New Zealand Shipping Company. The serge was taken from the steamer Suffolk and sold to a detective posing as a tailor. Accused was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. CHEMISTS CONFER. WELLINGTON, January 11. The fifth annual conference of the Pharmaceutical Society ol New Zealand. which is being held in conjunction with the Australian Society, opened last evening with a public reception by tlie Mayor and lion. Parr (Minister of Health). The conference represents three, thousand five hundred chemists in Australia .md New Zealand. caring for a population ol six million people. Mr A. 15. Hailey (President of the Australian Pharmaceutical Society) replied on behalf of the visiting chemists .

A SHUN TER. KILLED. CHRISTCHURCH. Jan JO. John Roniil’acc. a railway shunter, and a married man had both his legs and several ribs fractured through being run over by a. truck on the Lyttelton railway )lnsl. night. He. ..succumbed to his injuries. He was riding on the cow eateller of an engine, and. whilst unhitching a truck in what is known as a slip shunt, fell oil. the truck passing over him. A LIBERAL TRIBUTE. CHRISTCHURCH. Jan 10. The “Lyttelton Times’’ this morning says: On the occasion of his retirement, well-earned by a strenuous, useful and brilliant career in the forefront of Ids profession, we feel impelled to pay tribute to Mr Selig’s unlading courtesy, and to his innate kindliness which ha ve h< Ipod to make newspaper relauionships in this city extreme!, pleasant.