DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 July 1923, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

| liV TEJjKGl’.Arjl—l’Elt MESS ASSOCIATION.] LOAN FOB- EDUCATION'. j AUCKLAND, July 18. ! Tlio Board of Kducation lias decided, to approach the other Education Boards to agree to ask the Government to raise a million pounds for education purposes. Secretary Bardie stated that since HUG the average attendance in the Auckland district had increased from forty to fifty six thousand. Mr M< l’hail complained that li e local inemher of Parliament had more irtflueiue with the Department than th-j combined weight oi the Edm a'.io.i Board. The Chairman. .Mr Baidu-., said that the I)epartmoot, as a waole, treated the Auciilnd Board well and tho Minister for Education was good to them. A SCHiVS EXI’Ei! IEX( E. AUCKDAXI). July IK. The .vutr Omaha dragged her anchor at Great Barrier during a heavy gale cm Saturday niglu. The steering gear .jammed. Thirty tons of lirewood were jettisoned. On Sunday at 0 a.in. site .struck a rnek ami damaged her centrehoard and drifted on a sand-hank. She lion ted soon on the rising title and drifted 2d miles during the night and miraculously entered Omaha llurhour without mishap.

A I'l’f.KS FOB KXPOIiT. AA'KI.I.INGTOX. July K>. .Mr AYatei's. tlie Government Bioloei.it. roiiiinentiiig on tlie recent report that isolated tipples in cases sliipped to I. union had lirotvn heart, explains that liis investigations show Unit the disease is due it: part to lack of oxygen. lint the susceptibility increases rapidly with the degree of ripeness, so tliat a few mature fruit in a ease may he affected while others escape. The closeness of the hoards and the nature of the wrapping was likely to affect the conditions in favour of the disease. Australian apples are less liable because the temperature is rapidly lowered ami the consumption of oxygen by the fruit is promptly reduced. Ventilation in the May ships was greatly improved, and apples were shipped in a strikingly immature condition. ACCUM'iXT A .MYSTKUV. AA'()01)V! I.f.'K. July IS. ! A hunt four o'clock yesteiday afternoon an iii'i ident occurred on the AYoodville siile of th • Tkdhma Bridge when n. ear driven hy the agent of the O.ine Alilking Alacliine Cay., (allied away a eon-idorahle portion of the fence and crashed AO foci, a straight drop into the river. T lie man was hadly hurt, and sent to the hospital.. The cause of the accident is a mystery. lull probably a collision with allot her ear. ( AKi’KXTKB.S AND JOIXI'.BS. Al't'K LAND. July IS. .Mr Justice Frnser in the Arl:itnitinn Court, said the Court does not view its reeoiiiiiieiidation.s as unalterable, hut it fully grants that the Court is aware that bargaining lias taken place at a lilt cling of the Conciliation Council, and for that reason it mtr-i he absolutely satisfied that a genuine mistake had I cell made anil that the danse objected l i was mil inserted as ipiid pro (pin lor some'bine; conceded hy the opposite pai tv and rcingnised that they are not lending, hut the C'.uirt docs not wish 10 imperil the usefulness of Concilia i ion Council., by lightly disregarding their rei'omiueiulatiuiis. The Court cannot he satisfied with a mere statement by an agent that the assessors had made a mistake merely because they agreed to Koomthiug which the Court would not ordinarily agree to. li. however the recommendations are self eontrade--ji.r.v or ambiguous or are ultra vires lhe Court deals with them in its own discretion as it thinks proper.

The Cii rpeutcrs and joint'll award will Ito delivered in n few days.