DOMINION ITEMS. EX-SOLDIER’S DEATH.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 May 1924, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

EX-SOLDIER’S DEATH.

BV TELEGRAPH PRESS; ASSN'., COPYRICHT. TAUPO-TOTARA RAILWAY. TIMBER COMPANY’S OFFER. AUCKLAND, May 10. The conference between the Putaru-ru-Taupo Railway Board, representatives of the Tnupo-Totnra Timber Company. various timber owners, and Government department representatives, which was hold in the Auckland Chamber of Commerce has concluded. A promise of £oOO for preliminary expenses of the board was made by a number of the timber owners. . Mr F. Ct. Dalziell, on behalf of the Taupo Totara Timber Company, s i ' bis company was prepared to sell the ] 0-mile section of the line at valuation subject to having running rights as now, and covering an additional output. His company would pay for these running facilities at scheduled rates equivalent to those that other timber owners were paying. It was impossible to specify just then wliat these running rights-were to lie. That was a matter for experts, but ns the company would bo running its own rolling stock he took it that the rates would not he the same as those charged to timber owners without rolling stock, the running rights would have to he guaranteed. The company would expect that the security would he a charge on the line. Mr IT. Fricdlander, chairman of the Railway Board, said there would he the additional .security of Is per 100 ft. of sawn timber. It was estimated there were 800,000.000 cubic feet of timber and this on a royalty basis represented £IOO,OOO.

Mr Dalzicll: ff you give us the line and the rate of Is per 100 ft that would lie qiutc sufficient. The oiler of the Taupo Totara Timber Company will be considered by the board shortly.

REV. ALEXANDER, GRANT. DANXEVIRKK, May 17. The death has occurred of the Rev. Alexander Grant, aged 78. Mr Grant was a former Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly and was for over twenty vears in charge of Knox Church, Dannevirke. ADMITTED TO PROBATION. WELLINGTON. May 17. Iu the Supreme Court to-day Frederick Joseph Fanning, a well-known land agent, was brought up for sentence for fraudulently converting (.TOO to his o\\ ii use. It was stated that a friend had repaid the money. Mr Justice Chapman, in admitting accused to probation for two years, said that prisoner had gone through a lot of trouble, but had brought it on himself by drinking bouts. If the prisoner misbehaved himself during bis probation period, lie would be severely dealt with.

WHITE CROSS LEAGUE TEACHING SEX HYGIENE. WELLINGTON. May 17. A meeting of delegates to the White Cross League was bold to-day. Dr. .1. S. Elliott presiding. It was explained that seven districts bad been sol up in the North Island and seven in the South. It was decided to set up a Dominion Council, which was instructed to add to the Council at the earliest possible moment women members. The question at issue for the (oiife;eiice was what form oi instruct ion should lie given, and by whom by parents. teachers, or special travelling in. structors, male and female.

The lion. ('. J. I’a it wrote regretting that lie was unable to be present, and wishing the movement every success. The following resolution was liiiniimously adopted : "Thai the Minister of Education he requested to lake Mens to have sex hygiene elfieienlly taught to pupils of our primary and secondary schools by tile utilisation of existing machinery, as far as possible, and. where this is not possible, then by the appointment of specially seleited and trained experts, for prelerenrr medical men .mil women, luit in any ease to provide for the efficient training of specially selected teachers in sex hygiene, and to make provision for all approved instruction in sex hygiene being given iu all the schools in the Dominion, and that the names of the appointed instructors be submitted to tbe Dominion Council of the White’ C'.oss League lor its approval.”

TiTIJI.E IN SCHOOLS. THE VOTE OF SCHOOL TEACHERS. WKM.I.XCtTOX, May 17. Referring lo the Press Assneinlion telegram from Wellington dated May 0 regarding the. taking of a vole of School teachers on the Bililc-in-schools question hy a private individual. Mr .). Prudhoe, of Cliristchun h. who says he is the person referred to, lias "written to the Educational Institute, explaining his reasons for the action. Tie cl.dins that lii.s action is justified hy the fact that.in July, 102!!, the executive was asked hy the Wanganui branch to take immediate slops to have a vote hy all teachers, and that as far as he is nwnre no vole lias boon taken. There was therefore no possible chance of the executive granting a similar request from himself, and. even if g:aided, In* could not assume that the vole would ho in the form desired - the form that especially would elicit the opinion-, of teachers on the question of repealing the secular proviso. Mr l’rudhno .says that no organi-a. {ion has anything to do with the tailing of the vote, he being solely responsible for it. The voting papers are to he treated as confidential and will he kept ill a safe until they are to lie dealt with, lie proposes to ask the President and Secretary of the Justices of the Peace Association to act with him in opening and counting the papeis. It | the executive withdraws its advice to numbers to refrain from voting, he will accept its nomination of any two other Canterbury Justices as scrutineers.

GISBORNE, May IP At the inquest concerning the death of James Alexander Jessup, of Whatautu, evidence was given thill deceased while on active service*, was shot in the head, and had since been eccentric. His widow gave evidence that deceased disapproved of his children attending a dance oil Friday, and on the following morning he was found dead on the lawn, with a pea ritie alongside. The verdict was that death was due to a gunshot wound, self inflicted, while temporarily insane.