DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 September 1923, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[by TELEGRArn —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WORKERS’ COAIPENSATION ACT. WELLINGTON. Sept. 19 In reply to a deputation which waived on him urging the extensions of the Workers’ Compensation Act, the Alinister lot Alines and Labour said that he could promise nothing as the whole matter would have to be investigated in connection with the promise he made to Afr Howard. Ai.P.. when that gentleman submitted a hill to Parliament. He proposed that the investigation should he commenced in Felirti ary next. AfAN DISAPPEARS. ASHBURTON. Sept. 15. Leonard Hodgson, aged thirty-six, single, employed hy Air Langley at Rakniii, yesterday left his bed, where he was confined with an injured leg. and disappeard. A search so far has been unsuccessful. The police are <.<>-operating. WOAI KN’S CONFERENCE. AUCKLAND, Sept. IS Tlie Women's Conference to-day passed resolutions urging a farm homo for degenerates ; the raising of the age of consent to IS; protesting against tile publication of tbo objectionable details of divorce and illegal operation eases; the giving of a wedded mother an equal guardianship of the children with the father; that a site for.- a women's reformatory he acquired ; that those convicted of sexual offences lie given the option of indeterminate sentence on a special farm home, or de-sexualisation, followed by one year’s detention on a farm. They urged the Government to give effect to the Y.D. Commission’s report, and made recommendations that a. scheme for rented houses, as well as purchased houses,' be introduced.

UNFA YOUR ABLE WEATHER. .MASTERTON. Sept. 19. The weather is windy and showery for the final match of the New South Wales team against Wairarapa and Bush Unions to-dnv.

FLOOD DAMAGE. WH A KATAN'iK. Sept. IS. A tall ol 3.85 inches ol* rain in foi tycigllt hours to seven o'clock this morning. resulted in the rivers in many places overflowing, the hunks and submerging the lowlyitig country. The roads suffered ((insider-a bin damage. It is dnuhtlid whether traffic connection will he established to outside places today, owing to slips and a bridge being washed away in Waimana Gorge obstructing traffic. There are similar conditions on the Whnkatauc-Rotonui road. Rangitikei river overflowed at Thornton, tile water acne- i lie mad being too deep for motor traffic.

EOUNI) DEAD. AUCKLAND. Sept. 18

Louis Buttigieg, ex navy man, 85, was found dead in a gully 200 feet lielow- the cemetery bridge this morning, having fractured one leg ami sustained injiliies to his head. A letter on the body indicated he had been troubled in his mind idiom something. MOTOR HEAD LIGHTS. NEW IM.YAIOUTH. Sent. 19 The .Motor Trades Convention this morning discussed headlights and ]':issed a resolution recommending the Council to olitain paitieidars of the Californian system, and if they were considered satisfactorv to request- tlie Government to adopt a similar system for New Zealand.