DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 December 1923, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[BY XELIiGHArn —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

THAMF.S !I A RBOCH BOAHD. THAAIFS, Dec. 5. Out nf over seventy applications lor L 111.• position. Innii ell pans oi the dnmi 11 ion. All V. K. Sanders, at present assistant- secretory t> tlie Dunedin Harbour Hoard lias been appointed Secretary of the Thames Harbour Hoard, lie commences lie duties on Gth. .January. I >1 VOUCH (I I! AMT.I). lIA.MII.TOX. Dee. A. At the Supreme Court, .lames Hear aas granted a divorce from Annie Hear and the i o-respnudent. Albert Fduard (Irejrorv »ns ordered to pay C'Gt'o (lamaees. Kvitleiice was ftiveu that Gret'ory Went as a boarder and the husband discovered him and the wile in compromisin'.' circumstances. Until denied misconduct, the wife suyino that her husband was very cruel to her and in two children of a previous marriage.

!! \D! U M TREATAIENT. THE WELLINGTON AUREAL. WELLINGTON, December 5. About 125110 has so far hc-mi collected for the local radium fund and special cllorts are being made to c-omph-te tile ten llioti-and ic-j nil • c l he I ore ( h i i.stlu as. T his fund i- to cover the Wellington district, extending over the lower half of the North Island. AlnrlInuough am! Nelson, hut in a number 111 eomitiy di-triets tin- collections have not yet stalled. S; caking at a puUie me-ling recently Dr. Cameron vva- able to give actual evidence of cures of cancer ellVeted by radium and la- c-mn-luded that the purel ir.se of a supply was both a good insi: - a nee policy and a good investment. Dr. Stuart, Nd-m. added that evriy year a hundred pels.ills died c.l earner in tne district. \Yl:c:-:o -urcoma was a most deadly form, this di-ear-- yielded in radium, ninety-right- per cent being c-tiied or relieved. STATION-MASTER DEAD. DANNKYIRKE. Dee. 5. Obituary. -C. li. Ih-11. stauonmaster at Dannevirke and representative ol the lir-t division on the Railway Appeal Board : aged l-T. DR I! I. A : K MORE'S OFFER. ( II!! IST ( III'RCII. Dee. A. |)r Bltiekmore. Supi-riiitemli-uL of lhe Cashmere Hills Sanatoria, slates in euiini'Cliun with the evlilorinl suggesiioiis in the Christchurch papers, that if rei|Uested by the Government, lie would lie able to investigate the Xpalilinier treatment during bis overseas iioliday trip wliic-h In- i- about to linden akr. LYTTELTON HARBOUR CHARGES. CHRISTCHURCH. Dee. 5 The Lyttelton Harbour Board has received a long report from its engineer on port charges but decided to make no change. Several speakers criticised the high railway charges and the subject was referred to tin.' I a.iuerbnry Urogress League for report.