DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1923, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[nv TEEECJrath- —PER treks association.] A CHRISTCHI'IiCfI MESSAGE. CfIRISTCHTTIt. Aug. 29. At a meeting o| the Returned Soldiers’ here, the following radio message was sent to .Mr Massi-v : ".Mass meeting of Returned Soldiers and war pensioners held here to-night, expresses its heartiest thanks and appreciation of t..e War Pensions Act Amendment Rill, and the Discharged Soldiers' .Settlement Act Amendment Rill. We stand with you for united British Empire. Anzac.” ELECTION RESULT. WELLINGTON. Aug. 20. The Electoral Committee of the New Zealand .Meat. Producers' Board, comprising the delegates elected by the sheep I'ariners throughout .'the Dominion. held an election to-day lor the purpose of electing three prducers representatives on the hoard, consequent upon the retirement of Messrs ■). C. N. (irigg (Longbearli. Ashburton). J. S. Jessep (Wairna). and William Perry (Masterton). The three were re-elect-ed. SI'ROEON DEAD. A.SHRCRTON. Aug. 29. _ Obituary.—Dr Ronald \ ulekiiuiu. Go, a skilled surgeon, who lor some time past has been associated with the Governmeut Life Insurance Department. DIES CYDER ANAESTHETIC. (YIRISTC YllT.n. Aug. 20. Cyril (lorstan, aged HO. a single man, died under an anaesthetic at the Public Hospital, while having teeth extracted.

CLOSE CON El NEM ENT. CHRISTCHURCH'. Aug. dll. Thomas William Ellis, who escaped custody front the Christchurch station on Saturday night was sentenced to a month’s close conliiinicllt. the A aglstiato recommending that he should serve his full term of live years for ftrgerv. Ellis put forward the defence ~| insanity, hut a medical witness said that lie was acting the part and required careful watching. attempted arson. WOODY' 11.1. E, Aug. Alt. An attempt was made la-t evening to set lire to the post office. Notices were lorn oil' hoards. and lit. and pushed through the posting slots. The postmaster discovered and nut the lire out. Few letters, il any. were destroyed. DEATH FROM HEART FAILCRE. CHRISTC'IICRCII. Aug. JO. William Pullen, a tetired railway employee, after buying railway tickets for himself and daughter, to liakaia. joined his daughter in the carnage icmurking, "I am puilYd” and immediately leaned hack ill the seat and expired. Pullen was a widower, "in under treatment, for heart di-ia-e. SITTINO CONCLUDED. (YIRISTC IH'RCII, Aug. 39. The Arbitral ion Court lias concluded its sitting and leaves for Wellington to-niglit.