TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 February 1923, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

[ay tei.eoa.trit —per press association ; RAILWAY CONTRACTS. ! WKI.I.IXCTOX, Keb. 7,. | With reference to Alt Witch's complaints regarding the letting ot loco-. motive contracts, and spending largo •sums of money outside the Dominion. ; the Minister of P.idwavs says it- has i been previously explained that the 1 purchase price of tin- engines under! order in Cleat Britain is thousands ol pounds less than they could he munll j factiired lor here. Mr Yeitch has id-| so linen previously informed that tlit* j (iovernmriit had no option hut to placet a contract for Id A.it. locomotives abroad .as during the period (here! acre neither men nor iron and other material to construct them in New. Zealand. The importance oi these <n- I gines would not atfeet the position at , the Xew Zealand Hailway Workshops, ! as that, programme will keep the whole of the shops busy for the next two) years, while Price Bros have still liil locomotives to deliver under a contract that will take three years to complete. POISONIXO OK FAMILY. CIIHISTCnriJCH. Keb. d. The poisoning of the family at ■ North Xew Brgibton was contracted at the evening meal on Friday, when! the food eaten consisted ol bread and , butter, milk, Mam- mange. stewed I fresh apricots and tea. Xo meat or | linn.'d |o***l was* eaten at the meal i ■J ill- i llcel- if the poi.-oim.g were not 1 lelt until early on Saturday morning, and the whole family became seriously j ill. At noon all were in such a sori- j oils condition that a doctor was called: in. He ordered their removal to the. hospital. The first to succumb tot poisoning wore the two youngest children, twins, ami the next youngest. I .Maud, died yesterday afternoon. An- , diew, the youngest surviving, is in a j critical condition, and the remainder of the family arc all seriously ill. j |)r Telford. local Officer of Health, j 1 hi he ’ samples oi all the tooil in* . will L . --lysed ! |. ( i Tw -4;.. 1 ■ '>'iitc-'; ih ” ”| l v ;