DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 May 1924, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

[by TEI.EGRAPn—rER PRESS ASSOCIATION. TAILORED Sun'S. AUCKLAND, -May 2(5. A deputation from the Combined Tailoring Trades interviewed lion Anderson, urging legislation to prevent the sale of factory made suits as tailormade. Union Secretary Maosarn said lie thought fifty per cent, of the suits sold as tailor-made were made in factories. Mr Anderson said he intended to do something in the matter in the coming session, and would confer with the parties interested on his return to Wellington. They must protect the pulie as well as those engaged in tiie clothing trade.

BOAR BIND ROUSE DESTROYED ROTORUA. May 2G

Between Iwo and three yesterday m iming Ihe Armidale Boarding House of twenty-six looms, the owner being Mrs Ciirkeck, Inn occupied .Mrs K. 1 Listen and a cottage adjoining, owned by W. E. Ben net i and occupied T. fl. I’arata. were burned down. The cause of ilie lire is unexplained hut it began in tile Armidale kitchen. The occupants all escaped with very little. The hoarding house furniture was saved and the boarders saved part of their effects. I’arata’s furniture was uninsured but was mostly saved.

There was no water available as the supply was turned off oil account of connecting new pipes to the main. The Brigade made an excellent save of the nearby building of Hamilton House v.ith blankets and sacks wetted from street channels, working on the roof for two hours. Heavy rain fell tlurinjr tin* fire. The insurances arc umtsi-eitainable. but it is reported that there are sixteen hundred pounds on Armiikile.

-13-1 IOUR WEEK COMMENCES DUNEDIN. May The railwaynnui’s !S-hour week came into operating this morning in the trallic iiiainteiianee branches, and «a“ accepted philosophically. There i - apparently no inclination hc-v i- in Christchurch, to discuss leaving the A.S.R.S. its it protest again'! ■National Executive’s failure . Ihe position, apparently. i- that the M.tfkc men will work a (>->lsiv week cl / hours and a half day ol -I hours. \i Hillside work now coinmciirc.s •: <. i ; a.m. ceasing at five instead ot Irnni 8 to LAO.

MOTORIST CALLED. WANGANUI. May 2G. .Magistrate Barton this afternoon sent to gaol for fourteen days a funnel named Samuel Robinson, on a charge of being drunk v.ldle in charge of a motor ear . Thomas Harley, licensee of Chavanuess Hotel, was convicted for exposing liipior after hours, and fined S' lo and the license was endorsed. YOUTH FOUND BURNED. WANGANUI. May 2(>.

An inquest was held this afternoon oil the body of Ashley Watts Willi.seroft, aged lt>. who was found dead on a farm at Ahiiahu on Friday. The evidence showed the deceased was out pig hunting, and did not return home. A search revealed the hotly. Lolly hurtled, lying near a stump with a gun alongside. The body was burned from the ankles t.o the ms-lc. Tim carbine ull i < -1 1 deceased v. as using had a >irap tied round the front, of the iriggei. and it is thought the guard strap evidently caught, something when the deceased was climbing the tree stump and discharged the riHe*. No wound was found’on the body. A verdict of death from shock, due to the premature discharge of a ritle and burning was returned. FOOTBALL ACCIDENTS. PA 11 fATI’A. May 20. Prank Day. whose parents live at Makomako. broke bis leg here playing football. S. .McLaren, a married mail, met with a similar accident at I’onga--1-011. This is the third case ol the kind this season. A referee , Mr Siddells. at Pahiatua had the small bone in Ins ankle broken, lie was assisted from tlie Held. A section of spectators at llukantii look umbrage at "Referee O Dca r dering a player oil for striking another, and hooted him. The game was described as having been very rough. RUN OYER BY GOODS TRAIN. Cl 1151.3TC1 I rltC'l I. May 25 A shocking fatality occurred near l.oiigbiirn railway station on Saturday evening, when Harry ( hnrlesvot ti*. of Tiakitnhuna. was run over by a goods train during shunting operations. Tlie engine driver first became aware that something, was amiss when the engine bumped over deceased. Clinrdesworth we.s quite dead when extricated. He was a labourer, a married man with live young children. EIRE AT DUNEDIN. DrXF.niX, -May 2d. At four o’clock on Saturday a! tornoon a lire occurred in two dilapidated sheds in Stafford Street, occupied by Chinamen. A woman named Jennie Miller was rescued just in time, and was removed to tlu- hospital suffering from severe barns. She was reported to-day to be still dangerously ill. accidentally shot. WANGANUI, May 24. A«lviro was received this inoniinjx that AY. AYiiliseroft. aged eighteen, had been found dead at To Tnlii. Apparently lie was accident ally shot whilst pig shooting yesterday. The boy was missing yesterday and a search was made but bis body was net found until this morning.