DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 October 1923, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

[BY TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] A FISHERMAN’S PLIGHT. DUNEDIN, Oct. JO. A Moeraki fisherman named Charles Sproulo had a sensational and hazardous experience. He had. been out all night in a motor boat and was returning towards Moeraki when he was suddenly hurled from the c-abin by explosion and when ho picked himself up the boat, was afire from end to end. Though severely burned, Sproulo fought the flames and hoisted sail in an endeavour to reach the shore. Unfortunately the wind was adverse and the thun'es had full play on Sproule’s face and arms. He stuck to the tiller and managed to reach the rocks under Moeraki light, where the boat collapsed and sank. The occupant was tended by the light-keeper and taken*to Palmerston South hospital. IMMIGRANTS ARRIVE. AUCKLAND, (let. 21. The steamer Dorset, which arrived front Southampton yesterday brought ;f,7 third-fins passengers, of w hom ‘2d I wer assisted immigrants, who came out under the nominated system. A short stay was made at Pitcairn Island, where all tho inhabitants were in good health, A MAN KILLED. OAM ARC. Oct. 22. The body ol a man, believed to he that oi Hugh ('. Ross, a returned soldier, ol Central Otago, was found near the railway line beside the Onmaru trotting course at d.JO this evening. Hihelieved Hint he was endeavouring to get on a train leaving the racecourse, when lie fell under the wheels. The hodv was badly mutilated. Death "0* appareiHlv instantaneous. SI.Y-OROG SELLING. AUCKLAND, Oet. 19. lu the Police Court, Alfred Newman and his wife. Mary Newman. Wert charged with selling liquor without a license at their lodging-house. Newman as fine.d £dd with the alternative ol a month's imprisonment. The woman was convicted and discharged. EARTHQUAKE AT HANMKR. lIANMKK SPRINGS. Oct 19. A sluup short- earthquake was recorded at 11.2 d a.m. POWER FOR WELLINGTON. WELLINGTON, Oet. I!). Although tin- Minister of Public Works is of opinion that hydro-electric pt wer w ill lie available I rout Mnngahao in the middle of 1921, outside ol>sotvers hold contrary opinions. The Mayor ol Wellington declared at a meeting ol the City Council that the Mangahoa hydro-electric supply would not lie available for the city until the end of next year. It was supposed to or-ready in .June next, but that could hardly he. From information he had received from Air Cable, the Color Electrical Engineer and Tramway .Manager, lie had every reason to believe l.haL the Cilv’s new powerhouse at Evans Bay would he ready at least by .Easter. Asas it was doing now, that would enable the Electric Light and 'Tramways Committee to gel over the difficulty that it had to contend witli at the present, time. CENSORSHIP BOARD OF APPEAL. DUNEDIN. Oet. 19. Loral booksellers approve of the proposed Beard of Appeal in roimorticui with the censorship nt literature as providing pro]let- protection. Thu representative of Whiliomhe and Tmilhs stall'd that booksellers had been uiiow,.d to sell Miss Kt tit- Rout's -‘Safe Marriage" at their own risk, being liable to prosecution at any time. I hey had to stock such hooks lor students who v.v'-c being inereaJnglv taught about sex problems. Presumably now il would he part of the Appeal Board’s function to say whether such books should be told only to students and nurses. ,\ leading medical man stated that generally reading bonks which prvtcnded to give Leaching in >ox matters were pernicious in tlu-ii cited. on the young.