DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 September 1923, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

- j_BY Ti:i.KGItAl'JJ —I*KK I’ItESS ASSOCIATION.] .MIGRATION DELEGATION ARRIVES. AI'CK LAND, Sept. 10. The ISi-itisli Oversells Migration Delegation arrived liv the Niagara to-day, (.'(insisting of Stir \V. Windham, Miss G. Rolls. .Mr .J. Wignall. M.P., and Major Gcneaul Wauehop. They were met hy Mr J. llislni), Under-Secretary for Interna! Allairs, and Mr IT. I). Thomson, Under-Secretary Tor the Immigration Department, and Messrs Savage and Jordan. Mbs.!’., represented the Labour Party. Mr J. Rnrtell met Mr Wignall who is looking after the interests of the Labour Party. A member of the party. Mr T. B. Smith, representing a grid dtnre interests, will arrive in New /calami shortly. Major-General 'Wauehop is watching ex-soldiers’ interests and will get into touch with the Ii.S.A. in the various centres. As Tar as the Labour .Party is concerned. it is understood that they do not oppose immigration, provided stiflicieut safeguards and precautions are taken against the drift into towns. m: buck return*. AUCKLAND. Sept, ID. |)r P. 11. Buck, who attended the Pan-Pat ilic Congress in Sydney returned by the Niagara. MR, HICKSON ARRIVES. AUCKLAND, Sept, It). Mr J. M Hickson arrived hy the Niagara from Sydney this morning and teas welcomed hy Bishop Averill and Rev prank Cowan. Lit an interview he said he did not care to make any reply to criticism hy a section of the Australian press, or to enlarge particularly on the bodily healing aspect of his mission. The cures had been too numerous to select any example. He wanted to emphasise this was a Christian mission. EIRE IN THEATRE. TE KCITT. Sept. 10. A tiro broke out at 11 -GO on Saturday night in the operating room of the Empress Theatre, destroying nine thousand feet of film and doing considerable damage to the electrical appliances. The blaze was first noticed ;hy two natives who burst open the door of the theatre and made good use of the tire lighting appliances. They sut'cedcd in Idealising the oiuhieak on til the brigade arrived. The enu.-c oi the tire is unknown as the usual precautions were observed on the closing of the theatre. There was, no one ill the building «f Hie time of the oulbreak.