DOMINION. ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 July 1924, Page 4

DOMINION. ITEMS.

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OAALVUU WAII MEMUULU

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The Board of Goevrnois of the AYaitiihi High .School to-day accepted a tender oi £II,‘JOG for the erection ol a Hall ol .Memories in connection with the Gloat War.

BABBIT;SKINS. DUNEDIN, July It. A visit to the Dunedin stores in which rahhitshins are laid out ('■**■ the fortnightly salt! give a. vivid impression as to the importance of this trade. Jn Brydnne Hall, for instance, about thirty-five tons of skins are lying in Knitted' bean:,. The total value is estimated tts the best part of £110.011(1 mid this is only ;i fortnight's arcuinuhttion. Shins come to .Dunedin from till parts of New Zealand. Every shin has to he separately handled for grading. There may he forty grades in one hag. W.UAI ANA’S AIA LLS. KXV*I.AX AT IOX BV CAPTAIN. AI'C'KLAND, .Inly 11. Captain C. .M. Andrews, master of the steamer Waimana. whose mails were found to he pilfered when she berthed at Auckland, math l the followiii).?. statement to the ‘•Star”:

“With reference to the article le metliml of carrying mails, as far ss the same relates to the s.s. Waimana, 1 wish to point out the following facts:

“The notification of the mails to le received at Liverpool was for (18 hags parcel mail, and it is the custom for this ilass oi cargo (for such it really is) to he carried in such a position as to he available for discharge immediately alter arrival at destination. At 9.30 a.in, on .May filth. These 98 hags were received and placed in Xo 2 hold the general cargo there having been finished previously. At 11. 1-7* a.in., just on the point of sailing, when all cargo spates except Xo were lilled, 317 hags of letter mail were brought down, and as the steamer was then ‘singling up’ there was no other place available for mail, as no notification had been received previously, so tlml space could have been reserved. “According to the waybills, yhv li is the only description tln* ship’s nflicials get of the class of mails received, there was no mention of registered mail, and it was only on the examination nr Auckland that we became aware of registered mail being there. Had it been known That lags of registered mail were included in the letter mail tho.se would certainly have liven separated and placed in the strong-room, a small space on hoard cargo ships not large enough for a big mail."

BHODITTfOX OF BACON*. WELLINGTON. duly 11. Commenting noon the display of bacon at the Wellington Winter Show Air K. W. Goiringe. instructor in swine husbandry to the Agricultural Department, took exception to a recent report that Danish breeders favoured the large black breed, which gave a larger carcase than any other breed. .Mr (lorringe declared that this was altogether contrary to fact. The Danes, lie said, do not favour the large black breed, which has a distinct drawback owing to its being subject, to what is known in the trade as “sci'iiy cut" or “black brllv." a most objectionable feature. The Dimes, ns n matter of fact, ago in for the large white breed, crossed with the native or l.timlrace

sow, trout which their reputation as bacon producers lms been built tip. The large white has a reputation lor producing the long. :.r carense. It i- well known that the large black when crossed with the others greatly assists in producing the required length. In New Zealand farmers were being advised to adopt the large while Berkshire or'middle white cross, also Tamil ortli-Merk.shire or middle white ero.ss. ; Irimi which the splendid exhibit at th" Wellington Winter Show was obtained.

TAUANAKI Ol 1. FI If! D> J.TD Wellington, juiv ii

Shares in Taranaki Oil Fields. I rd.. tlie new eomnany which is to start boring operations at TYrata. near Inglewood, will probably he issued to the public in Australia next week. Information regarding i lit* allocation of ‘■’hares to'New Zealand is not vet availaide. It is liudcl’Mnod that the direi foi's are the lit lion W. A. Wall, of Alelhiniriii*; Air Thomas Baker, of Abbotsford: Ur Colin Fin-or. mining engineer. Melbourne, tin* lion David John Gordon. A1.1..C.. Adelaide. Co pi. Sir I*retlerick Geo:go Waley, Sydney. AIY A. E. Drum*, pciroli.it. Sydney, and Mr A. W. Donald, morelian!. \nckland.

POISONING. TI.MAH I‘. .*iuli- M

.John Beattie, of Nightcap-*, wliili working at .Mount Messing, hecauic 111 on I‘i’iday and died at Pleasant Point this morning. At an inquest a verdict "its returned that death was dim to syncope, the result of acute poisoning.

TWO PILES. DUNEDIN. July 11. Piles in Keith llalnsay’s timber mill and in M'Luchin u and Wright’s timber yard, Dunedin, on Saturday night smacked strongly of imeniliarisiu. Later a young man was attested in connection with the former lire. The damage done was slight. BIGAMY ADMITTED. AUCKLAND, July U. Urederick Clnreme t.eslio Player, aged JO, admitted a charge of bigamy at the Police Court, saying that, been lire he first married under an as.sinned mum*. Ik* ennHutled Ids liutiTiagc was nut legal and that he could marry again. Ethel May Player gave evidence that accused gave her ta understand Ids first wife, Annie .Maud Gorman. was dead when she married him <>n March 29rd. 1921. In a statement to the police, accused said he was tin* son of a woman named Player, but at the age ol five and a-lialf was adopted by Mrs Gorman at Wellington. Ifc was at forwards known as Sidney Gorman. and then married Annie Evelyn Maud Duxtnn at Wellington on May 26th., 15)09. He laid separated from her in 1908, and had not since seen her until he saw her in Court a week ago. lie admitted that on the second marriage lie described himself to the registrar as a bachelor. He was committed to the .Supreme Court for sentence.

EMBEZZLEMENT. AUCKLAND. Julv II

(• lull wi ii Douglas Connell.. a land •infill, on nine charges ol' unlawfully converting to his own use moneys lie ealleeted, totalling; £J7. was placed on probation for two years.