DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 September 1924, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSN’., COPYRIGHT. SAILOR. DROWNED. DA BOA VI I.liK. Sept. <!•• Harry Darling, -to, n deck liaiid on S.S. Aotea. was drowned at Rnawai wharf this morning. Particulars show that the deeased jumped on a scow alongside the wharf to tie a bpat up. when he missed his footing and fell into the water. The tide was at half Hood, running strongly. The mate on the Aotea saw the accident and gave the alarm and a boat was launched from the Aotea with all speed, hut when it reached the spot where he was last seen he had disappeared. It was a very dark morliing and although the limit cruised round for some iiltie no trace was found. The police were despatched later on in the morning from Dargnville to continue the search. Deceased had only been on the ship a fortnight. It is believed lie formerly belonged to AVliangneri,

NEW BORSTAL IXSTEITTIOX. CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 8 The lion (. .1. Parr, .Minister for Justice, announces that In' coll templates using some ten thousand acres of light C rown lands in the Xortli Island lor a new Borstal institution.

WOMAN’S SUICIDE. AUCKLAND, Sept. 0. At the inquest on the widow. Emily Blanch Blott. who was found dead in her residence til Balmoral Road, the Cormier returned a verdict lluit death Wits due to gas poisoning, self administered. while in a depressed condition. A son of the deceased found her on the Hour, dead, covered with a rug, and with a gas tube, connected with a gas jet, ill her mouth. til RI„S’ SCHOOL DESTROYED. MARTON. September 0. The Xgata.wa Girls’ Diocesan School, a large wooden building, was doSjJty.vod hy lire early cm Satuiday morning. Very little was saved. The origin of the lire is a mystery. The insurance is not available. The gymnasium and bungalow tire safe, LABOR CANDIDATE. AVEI.LIN’GIOX. September 7. Mr Walter Nash, secretary of the Xew Zealand Labour Party, has been chosen to contest the at the next general e!e tiou in the Labour interest. SHIP FIREMAN’S DEATH. THE CAPTAIN’S ADMISSION. AUCKLAND. September ti. An impiest eoieerning the death of .lames Mayo, a ship’s fireman, whose body was found with a bullet Wound in the head in Auckland Harbour, hist May. was concluded yesterday, when an open verdict was returned. Detective McHugh stated that the Captain of deceased’s ship admit tod that he had drawn a revolver on the night of the nth. of May, as some men used lilt hy names and refused to leave the ship. Witness added that no shots "ere heard on the night in question or while the vessel was in Auckland.

Medan! evidence was given that there was a small bullet in the deceased’s neck, near the angle of the jaw. Death was due to drowning, following on a bullet wound in the head which in itself, would not have proved a latal injury. It could not have been sell-inllietod.

PROPOSED OIL WORKS. WELLINGTON, Sept

Ihe British Inioerial Oil Company CX.ZA, Ltd., is establishing extensive storage tanks and plant near the Alirama r "hart in Wellington harbour. I here i- to lie laid a pipe line which will convey hulk oil from the new "hart which is to lie built to the big works now being erected on the Miramar Hat. some distance up from the I iii«mi Compilin'- i rude oil -lora--e taut.

He- >.. .1.. ~..,1. i„ i„. th- n-u plant, uhieh with the Mniiige tanks will cover the best, part of till acres, will he the preparation for and tinning or harelling of benzine, motor spirits, kerosene, and other power and lubricating oils. The I'uion Company's tanks are storage tanks for fuel and heavy crude oil, and the shorter pipe line, which leads from, the .Miramar a hail to those tanks, serves the douhie purpose of currying hulk oil to the tanks Irom tankers, and later feedin-' it out to oil-burning boats or oil I hulks. Oils which are pumped up from the new wharf to the Imperial Company's new works, however, will lie carted out in tins, harrols, etc. A capital expenditure of nearly £300,000 will he involved in these winks, ami about 300. men will he permanently employed in tin-making, ease-making, etc., when the industry frets under way. Practically everythin- hut tin' oils themselves will he manulactured locally, materials hemp: imported in hulk and landed at the new wliarl. The cases will come out, cut to size, hut not made up, from the company's own forests overseas, and will lie slammed into case shape by a special plant in the time an average handy man would take in sorting nut- the nail he would start wiih. Wellington will thus become the central point of the oil receivin'' and distribution; trade in the Dominion.

IXn.IT.XZA. Airck'r.Axn, Sept, 5 While (iilds or cases of common inllucnza have been rife in Auckland during the past month or so, the position is mild compared to that of Waimato, where it was reported yesterday there had been on authreak of pneumonic inlluenxa. Inquiries made at the local ollices of the Health Department show that, far from acute cases of inllueuza being prevalent this winter, the season had been a mild one, the returns bein'; very low. Since January the number of cases of pneumonia reported to the department totalled seventeen, and last month’s contribution was four, of which two were country cases, one city and one .Mount Eden. Of these cases there were two deaths, and the department considers now that the winter is over there is little likelihood of an outbreak of pneumonia such as is mentioned in the south. In no instance has there been reported a case of a whole family being laid up, and the position generally is particularly satisfactory.