DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 December 1923, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[ijy TH.EOP.Arn —per mif.ss association J MR COATES' TOUR. WELLINGTON, December 18. Hon. ,|. G. Coates, Minister for Pub hv Works leaves Wellington this veeii tor Auckland. Before lie returns L"; v il 1 make a lour of the whole oi the North Auckland Peninsula to the North Cape. frozen meat. WELLINGTON. Dee. 18. The statutoiy meeting of the mw Waii arapa Frozen Meat Company was held to-day. Mr W. Hunt presiding. It was stated that for the past ten yen-, the avoiage ..input has been LOO circuses, and. if they could maintain thi- average, the works weuitl be profitable. Mr 11 tint was ele-t"d i hr,i. man of the Board. A!-L-EG ED THEFT. WKLI.LNGTON. Dee. 18. Johy Patrick O'Connor a well-known taimer. and Chairman of the Sclmoi (I'LiMiittee at Tiimi was charge: at tie Police ('mill to-day, with having -tel'n two .sheep, the property of Davi.l Hen;y Steely, a ueighhotiriiig farmer. Ait used revived his d, 'fence. He was committed for trial on hail of £2OO and two sureties of £101). Fined L'ls •it each of the two charges of having ill Li, possession sheepskins without oars. HICKSON MISSION. ROTORUA. He,. 18. The Hickson Healing Mission opened to-day. Over seven hundred personus sent ineir name- for treatment, two hnmlred and eighty being Maoris from all pari:-. One hundred ami

sixty Europeans were In al residents, ami eighty came from hospitals, and one hundred am! eighty Europeans came lion, outside. At the Maori (mi roll. I) 1 1 ini•n ii 1 1 u, in iho morning, Mr Hickson laid hands on about nun hundred and eighty visiting Europeans, and one hnmlred Maoris iron, outside. The number of Maori- prirou much greater than e" peeled. The remainder will L‘ irouted in-morrow morning. One immediate cure was reported” A lady injured hv a fall from a horse forty years ago. lor live or six vears could only hobble with two Sticks. She brought' tne-e to the t hurt li and walked aw ay without them. General feeling of uplift and hope prevailed. hut the authorities are chary of saving anything coiiceniing the results tilF they are absolutely piß'eil. in the afternoon Mr Hickson visited King George Hospital.

BOil FIRES OUT. GISBORNE Dee. PJ. Tim hii-li lire-, geiugally. have died ,},ln some ia-es the losses -have lice;: iom|eii-ated for h\ the good elear- ; c- eliect. 'i at ’I epr.ia. A mail and }.;- Wll* well* -e,, l lo lhe ho-pltal Sul1, lie" ,’ i-. in ihe effects ol smoke; al.-o ~ stali, II Imml w|m wa- injured by a icllmg linih, while lire fighting. SEAMAN DIES. GISBORNE. Dec. ID. \xel Peteisen, a seaman, of Ruin. w.,s injured in the. s|iine when divine 1',,,m a wagon at Wuipiru Bay, during IV I oi loading o( eratinii.s. He died on Monday. WEST PORT' ENGINEER DEAD. WESTPORT, PocomV: 1' O'htmiry - Julius Seftittick C.E • i i'>'* Iforough Engineer, aged. PJ DRY SPELL BROKEN. WEI-1-1 NGit iN Her. lm

J |,e dry spell has been broken by the h, aw min which . ommeuced earlv this mmning. Pp m !> “''T'-ck .5!) inches I.a . fallen, this being a le ■,• 1. it stii‘ raining, !.’ t Hid -o I. -ai i!y. ATHLETIC CIIAMPIONSIPS. W lil.l NGT'ON. December I s - Advice received that the Austra-la-ian Athletic (Tiampimiship.- he held iU | loha.rl on I'ehl.ril.iry idh and dm , lb.. \'<>w Zealand team leaving on Jannaiy 25. Thi- up els Januiuv W date -agge-ted by Oi|o|- the New Zealand ( hampmliIhips and as Auckland and Wellington are holding their provincial champion-,-l'ips on January IDtli the New Zealand At lilct ic Association has decided that the on I v way ~:tl wa- lo postpone D New Zeaiuml Championships ml , ~ \,,.| rala-mn. .'\iessr- Dav- ;. \V,),. ~,( st(, vw right have been appointed >e|eclol- ol the N •>'■ E* e law! Lain.

MILK COMMITTEES DILEMMA WELLINGTON. December IT Councillor W. 11. Bennett. Chairman of the Milk Committee informed the County Council last night that bottle- ordered Iron, tlm British -Maker- ( in eonformit V with the Council s decision to deal with English firms) bad come to band but were not xtandtp.e trial of the washing and stcrlilziug machine wherein fifteen per emit wore broken. Tlie shipment was thus a huge failure and tlm Council might lo net a hurried replenishing supple 1,-,/m America. The trouble with i! i, > In it t‘i\ iio\vi*vur. was ilutl uu' nmluM-s would not tin* total content of llmir hollies; thus Dm Council could not ho sure of ‘'“"iplying with provisions ot the food and Drugs Act. RAINS IN CANTERBURY. CHRISTCHURCH. Dec. 19. Heavy rain from midnight continu'd nearly noon, tlm fall ranging , ver an inch in lhe city l«> ~,,-h rm! a half in Urn country diswhere the crops, particularly ir,reii feed, were greatly benefited. Tlm fail was genral and was haded as , .. .s'llvatioi; of the country which was , arched. The weather at noon was sunny.