DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 July 1923, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

[)IV 1 W.XSGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] THE BURWOOD ASSAULT. CIIRISTCTIURC II July I. A man with aliases was arrested at a house in New Brighton late this afternoon on a charge ot having committed the assault, on (lie young woman at Biinvoiid recently. The police visited the house this morning and found the man had gone. They took possession ol a large automatic pistol and then went to Bottle Lake Hospital where it, was thought the man was working. When they got there they found he had received information of the police pursuit and had lied to the scrub in the neighbourhood. A search was then hegon. A party of ten constables was di-pati lied from the city Inn for a long time it was impossible to find any trine ul tiie man. Late in the afternoun instead of staying in the scrub and availing himself of its cover the man lu-oko away at a spot about a mile down the road from where he was seen, and lie made for home. It was near here that he was arrested by Ifclcctive Bickcrdike’s party. TELEPHONE ( II \RGF.B. ( HRTQirin Bi ll July I. Ai a meeting of the Caiilerhuiy IT<>-gi-ess League, the new scale oi increased telephone- charges eame in for severe criticism, and it was decided; “That this meeting protests against tlif> telephone charges being increased, as now proposed, without the criticisms in the League's report being Lilly anfiniiir time ago the League soi. up a committee to go into tin- ptoposed charges of £lB and 28 respectively for business and private connections, and after a thorough investigation, the Committee came to the conclusion that the charges wore unwarranted. The report ired with universal approval all over i lk* I)' minion, hut the Governmentignored it. CONUII.IA'i lON ( nUNTIL. TIM ABU. July -1. ■flic Conci’it'ti-m Council conipl'-ted it sitting in Timarti to-day. 'I luce disputes were heard between the General I.abourers' Union and the Builders and Contractors, the Borough Council, and the ('minty Councils. A total agreement' was reached in the builders’ dispute. providing tor an increase in w'.i-m-' of a penny farthing per hour, and also in I he Borough Council's case, tlio iii' j Will" two poiire farthing ].<»?• hnt.r. The County CouiKil uns refeiTorl Arbitration.