DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 April 1924, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

BY TELECKAI’IX—'PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. OLYMPIC GAMES. AUCKLAND, April 19 C. Purdy, t] jo boxer, left by tlie Ulimaroa to-day for Sydney, where lie joins ihc Australian boxing team. INFANT SCALDED. DUNEDIN, April 20 An infant, Joan .Maureen Barton, aged one year and nine months, was admitted to the Dunedin Hospital on Friday evening suffering front extensive burns, and died on Saturday afternoon from the injuries received. At the inquest to-day a verdict that death was due to -shock following on burns caused by falling into a basin of boiling water was returned. The Coroner added that the mother had done everything possible. WHITE ISLAND GUANO. AUCKLAND, April 20 -Major A. G. Kent Johnston, representative of the White Island Sulphur ■ and Fertiliser Company, Limited, is visiting Tanranga. Ho states that a contract had been let to Messrs Henderson and Pollard, of Auckland, for the construction of quarters for the men to he employed at White Island, and this work will be commenced in about a fortnight. As sooji as tjie buildings are erected the contractors will proceed to hag guano, of which there is a large quantity ready for shipment. At the same time tjie sampling and analysing of the mineral deposits will he prosecuted. Major Kent Johnston states that there is no truth in the reports so widely circulated that high wages will he paid to men to be employed on White Island. As a matter of fact, all work is being arranged for on a contract basis. A U STB AI ,lAN FJNANCIA h DIFFICULTIES. WELLINGTON, April 22. Sir H. Beauchamp, wlm has just returned from Australia, says that be had heard several times of the financial difficulties with which Australia was confronted, hut he had no idea they were so serious or such a source of embarrassment to traders and financial institutions. The crisis is due to the determination of the Note Issue Board to do all in its power to stop the inflation going on for some years past. This inflation is due'to the various Governments embarking upon all kinds of schemes, involving large sums.; employers paying high wages, combined with less efficiency; the enhancement of land values both in town and country, and the reckless extravagance of all classes of the community. Tt is time to call a halt. In the six years coming, 450 millions of loans mature and have to be provided for, which will tax tbc brains of Ministers to the full extent. Bankers are cutting overdrafts right and left.

“A DELIGHTFUL TIME.” ’WELLINGTON, April U) One of the passengers for Sydney by the Marama on Thursday was Dr John T. .\Jiller, D.Se., editor of the “Character Builder” and principal of the Human Culture School, Los Angeles, California. Dr Miller will probaby be slaving six months in Australia, visiting all the principal cities. He then goes to South Alrica, where he lias introductions to the Prime Minister (General Smuts), and will stay a month or two tlioi'e, alter which lie proceeds to England. He will make a slay of two or three months in ihc Old Country, and will return thence to America, reaching Los Angeles about a year from now. Dr Miller told a “Times” reporter that he bad bad a most dcligtliful time during his six months’ stay in New Zealand. “J never was treated better in my lile'than by the business world in New Zealand,” be said, “and 1 am very well satisfied indeed with the results of my trip, which I trust will not lie my last to your fine country.” FRAUD ALLEGED. WELLINGTON, April I!: . At the .Magistrate’s Court on Tin-. day before Mr W. G. Riddell, S.M a fanner named Parlane Ross WaLer, was charged, that being the grantor of an instrument by way of seemity to His Majesty the King, by selling the chattels affected to defraud too grantee. vhief-Dcteetive Kemp said the accused had been arrested cm warrant on tlio complaint of the Receiver ot La ml Revenue. The charge was in respect to 35 acres of crop. The chief-detective stated that the accused had been arrested on the lonicell route to England, and asked that if bail was applied for, it should he subs! an tin 1. Mr W. E. Leicester made an application for bail on behalf of the accused, and it was granted in a bond of £IOO, or two of £SO. LOCAL BODY LOANS. WELLINGTON, April 19 Consent has been given to the raising of tlio following local body loans: Wairarapa Hospital Board, £15,000, for capital expenditure; Ngaruawnhia Borough Council, for erecting municipal buildings, £9000: Taradale Town Board, for electric reticulation, £9000; Thames Borough Council, for opening up and equipping a quarry, £SOOO ; ’Westport Borough Council, for electric reticulation (£23,500), for financing intending consumers (£3000), for “street improvements (£3000). -ix per cent per annum has been fixed as the maximum rate of interest that may be paid by the Petone Borough Council on a loan of £2200 "for repaying existing loans. The Wairarapa Hospital Board is allowed to pay up to GV per cent for its £15,000 loan for capital works.