DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1923, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[UY Tr.LF.GRArn —per press association.] CITY KXOI.XEER BEAD. W EDDINGTON, -June '2?. ()!iituary .Mr \Y. 11. Minton, City Engineer. at the comparatively early age of 10. Up has bet'll suffering for si me years from an obscure lung disease which baffled all medical knowledge. Mr .Morton came from Melbourne in 1900 and was looked upon as an extremely capable mail in I lie position lie has held ever since. XATIOXAI- 15.'XK. WEI.ITXC TUX. .lone 20. In reference to the cablegram suiting that the profits oi the Xational Bank totalled £.‘’70.807. tile Bank slates that the prof is for the lntll-year amounted to £123,710, and included in the total profit was £112.121 brought forward from the 1 n vinos year. The amount is £1(1,1)011 more than lm tar previous veilr. hut the Bank has had the li e 111 £17)11000 of now capital. Oil. EC I'M.. \Y E 1.1.1 XCT OX'S KXTi:i: BRISK. WKI.I.IXCTON. -Inne 21 Wellington as an oil lind port for hunkering makes a lorward slen as from to-morrmv. 'I he lirsi oil tanker, tie Orowaiti, chartered hy the l niou Coni pan v lo William (orry and Sons, the Great British cm l and nil hunkering eoiieern, is dim hringing SlOil tons o, ml fuel Which Will he discharged in t„ oil storage tanks at Miramar. These tanks were recently purchase 1 hy the Inioii, Company from the Yaettum Oil Company. They will hold 1,07,1,009 gallons, hut have not had a pint of oil discharged into them, and the Orowaiti's shiunient will he the lirsi to In- pumped into I hem. '1 he importance lo Wellington of this enterprise i- t hat visiting steamer- hurtling oil fuel can put into the purl lor supplies, can lake them at Miramar whart or draw l hem a limiting • *>l store ;t ( j 1 1, , anchorage lor steamer-, or take in supplies from the Adderley alongside the w liar I' while loading or discharging of cargo is proceeding. Whatever method is pursued in the hunkering of oil-htirning ships the laet remains that thi' laeililms ihai adl exist from now onward will make M rlliugion a port oi greal coiivenmui".' lin shipowners in oilier llian Xcw /ealand trades, whose ve-els require to take in oil fuel. The Orowaiti also brings 20,(10(1 eases

of pri rol for Wi'llinotoii. rill': pool! op i>rnkdin. IM'NKIMN. .lime Numerous oi'is ol t rayie need. in ordinary cireumsl nneos hidden from (ho knowlodise of nil except tlio.-o diroot Iv concerned. ootno mtdor il:o nulioo of tho ollieors of tho Salvation Armv in tho porlormance *>l their dtitio-.. Two t'tlM's. picked ill I'nudnin from ;i litrtjo iiiitnher, woro rolnioil to n reporter to-day bv l'.n~i"it 1 nom-.s. "An old mail. sat your-, c-i ace. was missed,'' said tho i'.iisii";, "ami a visit was paid to Ids room. Wo found him sittiuo over a liandliii ol lire. 110 wawoarino ins oao and to|ooat, .wt his face and hands woro liltio v.l li cold, lie was deal', and did m l hoar his daoyhlor explainin': that her lather was ( io proud to lot iinyott- know how they lived. I’mil throe months liel'oro >ho had nianayod with (ho money I rout three days’ oiennmo wceklv to make t lie iiotistioti spin mil each motil It. Then the father had a stroke and she could not leave him.’ "The second in-.'.” proceeded I'.n--*iell ( oninhs, "cone.utis a tnotlter wilh yonno children ahum her. Her husliaml has licen many months in hospital, and Iter lathy has ul-n hi on Ittkeii there. She a-ked ns to In-In her In eel warm nndorelulliiny and he-its. as the children all had such i olds, \\ lien the children came to the ollieo to he lilted their feel wore s,, civon-d with hrol; ui chilblains t hat n w a imp 1 sihle to try hoots on.'" CRKYMOI"I'II I'd'RRI.ARY AN Alt I! K.ST MADK. (H'KY.MtM'TI I. -I line -27. During the early lionrs ol yesterday a liurtdar entered the premises oeenpiod by Sli,'11111(111 and (lien, halters, and nls t those oi' Rose. Imotnmker, takinir from the til! in the former shoti £8 los. and about. Ills front the till of the latter premises.. To-day the police arrested William Allred (Aril Rose tor alleged hreakino and entering. Rose was remanded till Monday next, hail heiny; allowed. artisans of TO-MORROW. WKI.r.INO'I'ON. dime -Jll. A point 1 oueliiu o the eflieieney (if tin tradesmen of the i'utun. was mentioned ill the l.ejlishtlive Council yesterdav hy the Hun (!. -I. Oarlaml. who saw! lie thouolit ennui'll was not heintc done on the technical side of education. Ho wanted to sc- hoys so Weil ((Utililied when they lelt school after four veal's at a leehni'.al schntil as to he tilde to {to straight to a moehanie's shop, and tlial they should account as second, and not as lir.-t year apprentices. He wanted these hoys to he able to oo into the workshop and earn the same money as hoys who had boon there two years. In Ids opinion we were not oi-ttino the rijiht class ol men at tin* head of the schools, and if wo <:oL the rioht men ho was sure we could turn out in four years hoys who would he worth their second year s salary. He had no (ptarrel with the Minister lor Kduratioli in the iliatlel'. htlt "allied n chanjic in the system to enable Ins sU-'oe-tion to ho tint into olloe'. Tho lion do!,ti Ran' -aid that when ~ l,ov applied at certain places lor a j,,1, h,, tt a- tisked if lie had been to too 'technical school, and if he said he had Ik was told he was nut wanted. Ihe reason was that the people at the head oi the technical sehoe.l had not been at the trade for some time, and the boy was tatfoltt methods wl.ich were not m line with present day ivi|tiu'emenl'. The hoy was not wanted because- he ban to unlearn mm-h of what he mi l tamdit. With a buy wlm was v.nr.sum at a trade he could t‘lo well by n«.m>r j"

11,0 t.'< hnii-.»l sclm.il at niirlii. Ml" I i I,.amine; ilic theory m addition to t He | prticticiil siilc "t his t rado. i ursi> ni'.vo. j TIM AIM . dune | rnhert stearic, simile. was found in a hut Ml Makikihi this mornm-i. the circumstances i>’ ml 'I- - 111 SKCII KTAIi V AUUKSTF.D. l-I.KMiI.IM. June -7. Carth Holiort Fill, of the Ha-.,!. 1. Town IV.,rd. i .» rr ‘':^ Vi-'K-r-'a\ <in a chary:’ of -I,■ 11i;_r -I- ’ 1 |s 0.1. t!i,' property el the Hoard. I'onsiahle Mitchell in applying for a rcnian'il to July ti indicated that- further eha rye- were pending. \ lomam! was iirnutod. had beitit; allowed of L'dOO and two securities ot a sill'-i!-*r airnmui. I‘OST.M ASTKK (.11 Alifd'.D. AfTKI.AND. dune -h t, the Police Court. John Joseph Harrison Cove, a yonmi *»«"• "'»* charged that on Oetoher Tnk.omu. he made a IM>. *l™^ Bank withdrawal receipt with the into,,, ion that .. should he acted upon as oeuuine. and that, hemy: the postmaster at Tokaam, on October -(Hi,. Iti-jo. he dill steal .sums ot CJ00, and Cl 2d, the property of the Government. Thojiceusedjva^^nandetl.