DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 September 1924, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

fllT TELEGRAPH—PKII PRESS ASSOCIATION. T-.K BLACKBERRY REST. BOARDS PROPOSED. WELLINGTON. -Sept. 10. The Minister of Agriculture, Air Nunworthy has informed the New Zealand Farmers Cninn that the question of establishing Blackberry Boards, oil sim. udar lines to the Rabbit Boards, has been given consideration. The matter is to he gone further into, if it is found that the amendment in the Act made last session, as a result of invest.igntion work now in progress, has proven insufficient to meet the requirements. He hoped this will render it necessary to consider the question of Blackberry Boards only in connection villi the badly infested districts. CAR COLLIDES WITH. HORSE. OLD MAX IX.TURKD. HASTINGS, Sept. 11. While proceeding from Napier to Hastings last night a car occupied by W. Hay, .1. W. Norris, G. Thorne and ■George, collided wit It a horse ridden by .lack Iloilo, aged 60. Kollo was picked up unconscious with a cut on his head and he is still unconscious in the Napier Hospital. The ear occupants were uninjured.

, COAf.MITTED FOR SENTENCE. HASTINGS, Sept. 11. Claude Charles Brinsley, Branch Manager of Seouller and Co., Hastings, who pleaded guilty ol till* tlielt lif £895 Ills 8(1, tin* property of the Company, was committed lor sentence ;it the Supreme Court in Wellington. HOSPITAL SUBSIDIES AND PENSIONS. WELLINGTON. Sept. 11. The Minister for Health (lion Al. Pomnre) ascertained that, then* is no legal power to make a deduction from llu* subsidy in the Invercargill llospital, which was threatened if the Board refused to grant tin* matron a pension of £Hi:i per anuiliu. The Minster has. therelnl'e. agreed lo the Board's oiler at £sll lor lour years. It is understood that claims of this nature are reccivng the attention of the Cabinet. THE S.S. WA K ATI'. "WILL NOT RE REFLOATED. WELLINGTON. Sept. 11. The owners have deeided that- they •will nut attempt to relloat the Wakalu and sin* "‘ill he ofi'ered lor sale as she lies. SCULLING CONTROVERSY. HAMILTON. September 11. In view of the sculling race. Hannan versus Ao'-t. fixed for the 2-itli. Ill' Octolm*i on tin* Waikato River, a controversy has arisen in reference M the claim for tile Australasian title. Today. .Mr G. Ceruti, as I Secretary. publishes a letter from the New South Wales Sculling League, which in clfeci confirms the cable message ilaiming 1 hat AlcDev it t, is the Australasian < hanipinn.

Hannan, in reply, refers in 11. deals’ published interview on behalf ■of the Auckland Cuniniittee controlling the Ilanium-Alel levitt Itee on the Waitemaia. in which (’leal states that ..McDevitt admit led. alter Hannan had beaten him. that Hannan was the <-h:i lit J ion. deal, in • losing the interview. said he would like to inform Ce-i-titi. who was then in Auckland, that an able and reputable body wa.s ill existence and was quite capable of conducting tin Australasian Cluinipiuu.sliij's without Ceruti's assistance. THE TAUPIi RAILWAY. AN AGKKKAIKNT BEACHED. WELLINGTON. Sept. 11.

The projeel for building a inilwn.' fen in I:■ 111 til I’nt at ni u. *-. hull lit been reported upon b\ a Royal Commission, Inis now leached a satisfactory stage a- the result of negotiations between the .Minister fur Railways, the Railway Rn.-ird and lhi* Tnlipn-’l ntal'a Timber Cnv. The last named hits ufior.*d 19 miles of const I luted railway to the Boanl Ini L'sl..tt;subject to the < ouservat ion nl eeriain rights. and. aiter considerable dis.-ils-imi. tin* Cnv. a further aiineuneemeut that it would raise no objection to the Board building tile proposed tine il it could lie shown tlmt il would serve other tint It.*l* interests in the District better than llu* Company's line. This (imcession is expected to go a long way toward*, disposing the Stacies which have held Up the project for some years.

The total cost of the forty miles of new line and the relaying of the existing nineteen miles, with-fully noutnl 1-ads. «ill he. roughly. £3IM LOOM TWO STORKYKD lIOUSK DKSTBOV Kl>. OCCUPANTS’ NARROW KSCAPK. CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 11. When a lire broke out early this -morning in a two storeyed house in Ferry lload, the owner, A. K. Stevens, his wife and two children had a narrow escape. Stevens was iorced to -jump from the window on to the mol nf | lie verandah with one of the children in his arms. They were awakened |iv smoke and had no time to dress. A CHRISTCHURCH PROPOSAL. TO FORCE GOVKRNMKXT. CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. II A proposal that Mr L. M. Isili. M.l . should consider the question of resigning in the event ol the Government not agreeing to eleetrily the Lyttelton tunnel and then allow himself to he sent hack iriumphnntly unopposed and five of any promise to the Government, is made by Mr A\ . .Macliin, vice-president of (he Cantei1111rv ('handier of Commerce.