DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 June 1924, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS

HV TEI.KfiRAI’H —I'll ESS ASSN.. COPY 111 CUT. YOUTH HANGS HIMSELF. GAM AIM'. June IS. The police have been advised that a youth. Vernon McLennan. IC>. hanged himself on the Ben Avon station yesterday. SUNDAY GAMES. WELLINGTON. June 18. A protest against the Education Board's by-law prohibiting games on school grounds on Sunday was made bv a member. Air White, at to-day's meeting. .Mr White declared that the Board should not dictate to a- commit tee, who objected to being treated like children, lie pointed out that Snnd.av might he the only dav available in Millie localities for the young oeople to play tennis for instance. Mr White moved that the by-law be rescinded. Tliis was seconded pro forma but all the members except Mr White voted against it. AGAINST KXBOItT Ol- TIJIBF.U. WELLINGTON. June 18. Sir F. I’d!, opening the Doiniiiier Conference on the ii'c ol building timbers, said that lie hoped the prohibition ol export ol timber would lie by Statute instead ol ()rder-in-( oinicil. He trusted that when the present abnormal demand for timber slackened, people would resist tin* grant of any demand, for export. The ijouutry's timber must lie conserved for the Dominion. It was this ciiuutrx s hoi itago not that of the world. BOWER BOARD. GISBORNE. June 18. The first election of members of tlio Poverty Bay Electric Bower Board was field to-dav, when for Gisborne Boroiuih Messrs I-', it. Ball. 1. Mil field. G. Wildish and T. Todd were returned. Other members of the Board wore elected unopposed, comprising three lor Waikohu County. Messrs C. IL Riidge. B. •!. Iloldsworth and O. A’. Russell and four of Cook County, Messrs F. 8. Bowen. .1. Corse. A. C. Steele, aid C. If. A\ illiams. SB LIT BANK NOTES. CHRISTCHURCH. June ID. Several split hank nates have hcen circulated here recently, mostly in Hie evening, when if i' hard to detect the brand. A COLLISION.

ITKKKOHK. June 19. \ trap containing Alexander Mcßoltbic collided last night, hetween Auckland and Pukckohc. with a motor cycle ilM( | side chair. Wcslev Kitson aged ill,out on the cycle suffered a compound fracture of the leg. ( Itiuile W'cbb. sixteen, in : li“ chair was bruised mid unconscious. Mcßobbie is brui-e i mnl siill'eriog from -hock. Webh and Kitson were hospitalled. A SKRIOI'S FINDING. ARISING FROM FIBF, KNOLIR) AFCKLAND. June 19. Air Hunt S.M. delivered judgment on the recent fire at tin City Markets, lie found it started in the premises occupied by the Fruit Case Cov. at L a m on April nth. and was caused by t . defective install:, tun. ol be elect m li.rht sv.stetlt. Three other defect., wit found in the installation any; one o which might have caused a tie. • would have done so sooner or late, u magistrate was satisfied that the i 1«. and regulations under the 1 nblte nk•Vet lor the safety ol tile lives . ltd pm petty of consumers of electrical citeig. had 'not been properly observed in n district. -