DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 October 1924, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

[nv TKLKCJItAril —rat IT.KSH association. KI Id. Ml) HV KICK. NEW PLYMOUTH, Out. 1. Through being kicked on the head by a horse a hoy named .Herbert David I’ittam. aged eleven years, was killed at Midhirst, near Stratford, to-night. He died within five minutes of the accident. THE MARTIN CASK. ALLEGATION ACAIXST TK.\CHKK. ACCKLAXD, Oct. I. The (Irammar Schools Hoard, alter discussion in committee on the .Martin ease, resolved to hold an inquiry, open to the press, into allegations made by the parents of pupils that an assistant mistress at the Kpsmn School has abused her posit ion hv lolltieneing the religions views ol one of her ptipilx, Margaret .Martin. The inquiry will he held on .Momhiy. The principals in the ease are to be requested to att.nd to give evidence. The teacher ill question applied for and was granted two months' leave ol absence on account of ill-health. a medical certificate being torwarued with tlie application.

MANSI VUG I ITER CHARGE. IXYKHCAKGIfd.. Get. 1. As a sequel to the death of the hoy Harold Jsiiwont Cole, who died as a result of injuries sustained through being knocked oil' his bicycle by a motor-car, the driver ol the latter vehicle. Leonard .Mount Huddle, dairy farmer, ol Tislmry. appeared at the Police Court this afternoon charged with manslaughter. He was remanded till Tuesday. Hail was allowed in the sum of £ fill).

XHW CRICKET COACH. AUCKLAND, Get. 1. Captain Badeuek, coach to the Wellington Cricket Association, arrived from London by the Port Caroline today. lie is L’f years of ago, and in his prime as a batsman and howler. lie expressed the opinion that the English team to play Australia was the best available, taking last season’s form as a guide. .Much would deoend on the i aptaiimy. but having Cilligan as skipper there was little to complain about, (lilligan captained the team in all the tests against South Africa, and if the men retained their form he expected them to lie equal to the best Australia eculd licit!.

HMV, ,|. A. HUSKING. AUCKLAND. Gel. 1. The death is announced of the Lev. ,). A. 1 Disking. Methodist minister at Gtalmhu. aged .Y2 years. lIP entered the ministry in !8!)l. and served at (’hristehureii, Dannevirke and Kltham before coming to Olnhnhn two and alialf years ago. llis wife died a year lie leaves live children. VICE-REGAL KAlt EWELLS. SOUTH ISLAND TO UK. WKI .KINGTON. October I. Their Excellencies have arranged to leave Wellington oil October (! in order to pay a number of farewell visits in ihe South Island. They will stay in Inveien-gill from October 7 to October 10 and will pay a visit. In I’.lnll' mi October !>. Short vi.-its will he paid to Mat aura, and (lore on October 111 on the way had; to Dunedin where their Kx: clleiic-ics w ill stay until October 11. 11l addition to other engagements in Dunedin his Kxccllcncy will lay Inundation stones of the new Denial School and of the New Zealand and South Seas .Kxhihition.

On October 11. bis Kxcelleiic.v lias promise.I to lay the I'e.undal ion stone of tile Oaniani Sake ions' Memorial. During Id; vi-.il to Tiicoril. Odd-oi-li i I l.'i. hi. Kvellem-v will open Ihe inw Sailors' list building. On Odole-v Iti short farewell visits will he paid t : Temuka and Ashburton, on the wav to Lin ixtehnreh. where their KxcelIciides w ill stay until t letnher 21. In : • -!' 1i t ion to civic. Masonic and Xa\,- I.eagie- I n m-j ieii- in Christchurch 1 will I— a Illy S' mil end Girl tlniile-* i n !!\ mi ltd 'b--r I'*- and hi . K\ elleiiev will In- -eut-.-rtained by .In(’■hristdiiireli Clc.h and the Royal Colonial Institute.

On Sunday afternoon. Oetolicr 10, hi' Excellency lias arranged In unveil the Klle-aiiere (' unity War Memni ial,

at I ee-t in. T'l'i-ir l-'vei ,'leiieiex will return L Wellington on O. tuber 22.

IxNC't tURAG INO TALENT. AUCKLAND. OH.,her 1. “A hoy or girl does not have to belong to the aristocracy to obtain a position in the New Zealand I’uhlie Service.” said Mr T. W. I’ovnlon. S.M.. addressing members of the Auckland I-ra itch of (he Public- Sendee Association at their annual reunion. “A man who has a bright hoy.” he continued, ‘can plate him in the service knowing that social position stands lor nothing and that he will he judged on his merits, Tf the hov or girl has brains he or she will ri-e to D'e ton. I know several men in the servie" now earning salaries id' JCdOO and £OOO a yen' who as liny:; hardly owned, a soil ef olidhe--. Our Government is out to get the very lest men in ils departments till mat tor how poor their parents are and they give every encouragement and in the end a pension. A nation’s wav to progress is to nni.Mirage its talented individuals; for is if net the brilliant .geniuses who

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