DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 January 1924, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

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INCREASED WAGES WANTED

DUNEDIN, January 28. Tile Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants passed a resolution unanimously urging the executive to ]ire.ss for an immediate increase in wages mv"ittg to the increased cost of living. ALLEGED THEFT. CHRISTCHURCH. Jan. 23. R. D. Martin (ex-Union Secretary) was charged with the theft of £lOl Is. i'7(i 8s and £l9 11s ltd, moneys of the Canterbury Bakers’ and I’usLry Cooks' I nion. The police, replying to Counsel's statement that restitution had been made, said several other charges would he made lie fore the case was gone on with. The affairs of four other Unions had yet to he gone into. A remand was granted till Friday, on hail fixed at £201) and two of £11)0. There is a possibility of the ease going for trial at the coming session ol the .Supreme Court. PICNIC HOLIDAY. CHRISTCHURCH. Jan. 23. Lyttelton jivatersiders decided to take their postponed annual holiday to-day, consequently there was no response to a call for labour, and no work was done at the port. A cargo of Nelson fruit by the Cygnet is liable to damage, as part is consigned to Invercargill. The Shipping Coys made a. complaint to the Labour Department. that picnic day was selected without the consent of the companies.

DRUNK. CHRISTCHURCH. Jan. 23 Allred James Massey, a second offender for drunkenness, pleaded in extenuation to the charge, that he met some friends celebrating Bill Massey’s corning hack trnm England, and goi drunk. Massey who did not claim any relationship with the Premier, said h<’ had a job to go to in the country. The .Magistrate refused leniency and imposed a fine of forty shillings, and issued a prohibition order. BATHING FATALITY. DUNEDIN. Jan. 23.

Leslie Gibson Marwick, a deck hand on the river steamer Chitlin, was drowned while bathing, in Ihe Mol.vneatix at Ralchit'ha on Saturday. Deceased and Joint Thompson, another deck hand, were bathing together and (he latter seeing deceased m trouble, toned him nearly io the hank when Marwick grasped his wrists, Thompson hahing to free, himself. Procuring a life licit from a man on the hank Thump-on I. but Marwick had sunk. The body has not been recove rci I.

POLICEMAN DROWNED. DUNEDIN. January 28.

A police constable, Martin Gordon Smart, single, aged 2d. who joined the lorce in December, |!>2.‘L being coni innoii-.lv stationed at Dunedin, was inaml in the harbour this morning. Hilling the past week he had been on night duty. In- heat including the wharves. He was seen at 1.25 a.m. by tin- night ii a tcltniaii. "hen he appeared normal. At I .-15 a.m. Sergt. Dunlop

lias expecting to meet him on the ivharl Put found no trace of him. The body lias found in the water some distance Horn the Yictoria Wharf. It is snr-nii-cd th- decea ed t ripped and fell into tii hcrbuur.

\ I- A'i'At. DIYE \ | t. ‘KL tN D. .Innuni a 28 y ii: cl pat tick I Lupin, aged ISO, a it:.i, i-Tf-d iu.il). nits drowned while < ru—- ,, • th,- Ti’omki ir o' cm Saturday . , Me iva- aiv.ni:: a friend u? CT: ' CIVI !l Lewis ill I'OSS 1.0 .1 < 1 H'l’ '\ .:m Im ton!, a ?i H at the oars air l g rib..a; J ai'.J Doc!.']:: di' iyt after ir ILs vcm] a.don raw him wading aslu re hut- wi.-cn Lewis drt’C'd to t’io Doohci bad not appeared. Hit, I, -,-Jy war subsequently found in '■hallo" water. TWO DROWNING*. 11 A.M I LTON. Jan. 28. A drowning fatality occurred at Horseshoe Lake near Frnnktim ..n Sunday afternoon, illicit a youth, Robert Leighton, aged U years, -on ol K. Leighton of Erankton, lost Ids lito. Leighton was swimming with other bids at the lake and heeame separated Irnm his companions who were occupied in launching an old limit. Leighton disappeared without warning. His clothes were found on the lake side whore he undressed, and it was concluded he wadroivned. The body was recovered this morning. While taking his customary daily blithe in the water race of llorahora power house on Sunday morning, a labourer, Albert Tomlin, about 10 years, was drowned, lie was alone at jho time and no one saw lum ili-nppoat. The body was later recovered. The deceased was a married man and lived with his .wife and two children neai the power house extension construction works, where was employed. He was a recent arrival from England.

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