DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1923, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[by TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] TRUCKS TN HARBOUR. CTTRI.STCHURC.iI. July IC. During shunting operations at Lyttelton to-day, seven railway trucks having too much way on. jumped the buffers on the No. 7 wharf, and fell into the harbour. Until they are salvaged. vessel- will not he allowed to use one side of the wharf. Mean thefts. WELLINGTON, July IT Complaints are rife of thefts from football grounds. One player recently had a new suit stolen from the Wellington College pavilion and on lour successive Saturdays articles have been taken from the Scots’ College ground and similar l hefts an- reported from other playing areas. All RIM*: IN GOOD CONDITION. WELLINGTON. July PC Private advice- state that the second shipment of cattle have arrived at Melbourne in excellent condition with a loss of less than one per met. The report in a Melbourne paper that some of the first lot died of ihirst is scouted. The real cause was a chill after (rucking. The buyers in New Zealand speak in high terms of the manner in which tho Railway Department loaded and delivered Hu* beasts to the ship’s side.

NON-SUITED. OAMARU. .Inly IS. Mr Bundle S.AI., delivered judgment to-day, in the case of the Inspector of Awards, v. (This. Alexander S.vmon and other members of the Executive of the Watei siders’ Federation at Oaiua.ru. non-suited the Inspector, in the case where I lie Executive were sued for not compelling men out of wink to accept eei tain work offering. This upsets a Wellington recent decision.

MUNICIPAL CONFERENCE. < HJiISTCIiI ECU. July iS. The sixteenth biennial municipal conference.* opened with an attendance of 29 delegates, presided over by Air Fleshcr (.Mayor ol Christchurch). A motion i.ii sympathy with the relatives of .Sir Win Fraser was carried. Mr Fleshcr m uch urning lhe delegates said it was the first lime tho c.oni’ereiiee had been held outside ol Wellington. lie believed it should be annual and go round. Air Flesher reierrecl to the valuable work of Canterbury Progress League which was the envy of other provinces, and lie called on the President (Mr W. K. Mi Alpine) to welcome the delegates. Mr Ail-Al-pine outlined the luiiclious of the League. which renivseiited one hundred ami twenty bodies, on whose behalt he welcomed the delegates. Responses were made by Mr Baildou (Deputy Mayor of Auckland) and Puphy (Mayor of Dunedin ). The Chairman referred to the need of a new handbook, as the existing handbook was live year-: old. The following remits were carried:

Mount, Albert —That the law he amended to provide the entire cost ol rolls required for electric Power Boards Ik* defrayed hy Hoards.

Flunedin—Urging the increase of the State contribution to Fire Boards lor the protection allordcil Stale property, and also fixing the end ol the I-ire Brigade's year at Alareh 9) si., with a demand on local bodies during .March. Mount Allien- That she Health Act lie amended to | reveni milk deliveries. A I-'oxton remit, fixing Fire Board contributions of insurance companies at sixty per cent, local bodies ; ( t t Dirty und Government- at ten. was lo t. A remit from tin* Sa nita ry inspectors Association urging that all i .'impotent persons in the Municipal Corporations Act should he defined as holders ol certain certificates, was lost. Hamilton That license lees by hotels be reviewed.

Christchurch and -ix other boroughs —That the expense of a. successful h im poll be paid out of loan mom', s.

COM Al ITT ED FOR SENTENCE. WANGANUI. July 18. Ernest, Albert Turner pleaded guilty to-day to three charges of sending bogus telegrams at Chrisichureh last November in the name nl .lames .Silldells to three Wanganui residents requesting them to wire various sums of money. All three responded and the aggregate amount Turner received was 225. He also pleaded guilty to a charge of forging the receipt for a money order telegram from Blenheim. Turner was commuted to tho Supreme Court al Wellington tor sentence.