DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 September 1924, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[ilT TELECRAPH —rER TP-ESS ASSOCIATION

UNION ACCOUNTS. WELLINGTON, Sent. 17

A deputation from tlie Trades and Labour 'Council Federation waited upon the .Minister for Labour to protest against what the Federntiyon took to he the proposed set, of regulations in regard to the keeping of the accounts, and minutes of the Trades Unions throughout the Dominion. After hearing the deputation, the Minister renliod lie was very pleased to meet the deputation, aitd to hear what it had to say in a letter covering a r irculer sent out by the Labour Department to the Unions, lie pointed out there was no will'd about regulations at till, no word whatever. The Unions were iu-t invited to continent on the attached procedure a.s to keeping accounts and minutes, suggested for adootion by the Unions throughout New Zealand for the protection of their own members. It was a perfectly courteous circular. There was no que-tion of regulations. It was merely intended to furnish suggestions as to the best method of keeping account- and minutes.

Air Parr explained the idea was to have a set of model hooks, so the financial position of Unions could he easy to determine. He spoke of a nimt|,er of cases of defalcations from funds.

JUVENILE OFFENDERS.

WELLINGTON, Sept. 10

Replying to a deputalion from the women's bean; h ol the New Zealand Labour Baity, the Minister of Justice said legislation was being drafted providing for children's (units and general 1 rote-lion of the iutete-ts of juveniles who commit erime.s. Air I'arr said the ordinary judicial tribunal was not at all suited to deal with < hildroli’s offences. lie hope;! to he able to inti' diice a Bill this session. The children's court would he presided over hy .sceciall appointed .Magistrates, and would lie held at juvenile homes or receiving homes. Theie would he no publication of the proceedings. The policy of the Justice Department nowadays was a policy of mercy rather than of probation. He proposed to appoint child welfare officers in conne'tion with the Juvenile Courts some of them women. .MOTOR CYL LIST FATALITY. DI'XFDIX, Sepl. 17 A man named Louis Sotiqucl, aged about 2-7, was found lying beside a motor evcL' on .Mount Cargill Road at 7 o’clock ibis evening, having collided with a milk cart, lie was conveyed by a taxi call driver to the hospital, but expired before arrival. A XFW VENTURE. OIL COY’S PROPOSALS. WELLINGTON, Sepl. 18 An English Oil f oy. which is operating in New Zealand ha, secured an area of twenty live acres at .Miramar whereon il is erecting a plant, including a tank for kcro-cii • an I motor spirit : also canning work, and tin and Lex making factories. TI e expenditure thereon will amount to a quarter of a million, neeessilai ing additional wharf aeeoinmodatiou so that the total capital expenditure will probably reach 23211.(1111. Till' whole of the firm’s oil busine-s will be handled I null \\ el ling-

1, ii. The oil will he- brought in large tank steamer,, (lumped into the reservoir, at .Miramar, and then eased and boxed for distribution. About four hundred hands will he employed when the business i, established at its f'.'.ll rapacity. WIRELESS lIRMAIK ASTI.ML C(l\ FRNMFNT LEGISLATION. WELLINGTON, Sepl. Hi ( niitrol iii r r wireless dealing and !,,, ail, i-l him i, i iiiilained itt an amend men! to ihe Pel and Telegraph Art nit i. dure-T 1 1 v Oovertior-General’s mrssa ge to-day. (!a and alter April I next ..raid's m wir Jess equipment are t ) lie licensed by lie .Minister of Telee, aphs. They shall keep a l ull record i • |" all sales, and names and ntldrev'es ,it' purchasers Power is giv n t.i vnke licenses and the penalty lor a I.reach of the provisions i- not exceeding. 279. Clause 3of the measure states that the portion ol dealers lees and license Ins lor wireless installations may he paid to persons or companies who agree to undertake a broadcasting serviee. For ibis purpose the Postmaster-General is authorised In enter into an agreement with any person or i oinpauy for a period not oxeerJili" five Veal'S, subject to periodical

renewal lor a similar term, it being a condition dial recipient ol lees undertakes dining the currency of the agreement to maintain a hinndca.-ling service to the satisfaction ol the Minister. ' The term broadcasting i, delined to mean transmission by wire|,.,S ol unproved pingrummes ol entertainment, instruction or informalion „f I '-ii era I interest capable of being receive" l.v : .|.m.iatus for use of wloeli licenses have been issued. Bower is given to prescribe by regulation licenses for operation of wireless outlit,. which may he classified acri.rdj M e to tlmir purpose, location Irma broadcasting station or other relevant consideration; and tlm regulations prescribing the fees to he paid in re-peet of the broadcasting service may dillercutiate as between licenses and classes of licenses.

DK.VUI lfv KXI’IIWIVE. DI'NFDIN. September 18. the i.uiue-t on Thomas Mann, a rahhiter. aged 18. a verdict was returned that while temporarily insane he met. his death hy discharging a hgth explosive. Deceased lived at an old mining .amp near P.anfnrly. 'I be deuce showed deceased had ignited a ipiaui it v of explosive and had then laid Id. body across it. The uunk was .'down away and only the leit shoulder head and legs icmaincd.

A* ICE-REGAL. STRATFORD, e'ept. 18 The Cnvcrmii'-General and Lady ,1 ellic'ie were larewelled here tins murning hy the Mayor. Council and an enthusiastic gathering of over a thousand. The school children were inserted on the station hy the A lee-lt''-gal patty. COLE. AVAN'CANI I. September 18. At golf this morning the round re>ulto»r’in Latham heating Beaveii one up at the twentieth. Co'S heat A\ dliams live and three. Powdrell heat Willoek one up. Saundrs heat Knight four and three. Gohliiighnm heat l’arkes one up at the nineteenth. I)',Mod.in heat McNeill three and two, 11 arid son heat Afehlrum three and tflie Hussey heat Parsons two and one.