DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1924, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

BV TKLF.OJUPR —IT.Ha3 ASSN , COPYRIGHT. PUBLIC SERVICE. V LLLIXDTOX, November 10. Mr i. 1!. Robinson, resident electrical engineer of tin; Public Works Department. I lit mil ton. lms been appointed to a .similar position al Christchurch. Mr -V. (.'. Owen has bean appointed assi-j'.ant lioftrii al engineer at the head olliee of the I'iddic Works Department, Wellington.

•Mr E, Waite, of the head office of the Labour Department, has heen appointed officer in charge of the. Dalton r Department. Christchurch. Mr (E. White, estates administration clerk, in the Christehureh Public I'ru.st Dili; o. has l.t*cn promoted to Deposition of Second _ Assistant District Public Trustee, Jtiinedin.

AI. LED ED .\SS.\I I.T. ASII BURTON. Xovomhor 10. An affray took place outside the resideiit'e of Constable A. White. SoutliKti.st licit, on Saturday night. It is stated that a motor-car broke down outside, and the constable, nu-ording to the police statement. Mas allegedly assaulted, following a wordy exchange between him and James Oliver .Scott. I'he (onstahle\s neck-tie appears to have snll'ereil most damage, for neither of tiie parlies showed marked signs of a souffle w Imii in Court lids morning. Mr .1. li. ( hri.-lian. ,1.1’., was on the lienrli.

Scott was charged with assaulting C-onstal lie White and damaging the lonstahle's neek-tie to the extent of os Gd. and with keeping l irj nor for sale within Die no-license district of Ashburton. The three alleged olfenecs were (onniiitted on Saturday night.

Senior-Sergeant Jackson asked for a remand till Monday, November 17, when a further remand rill the following l-'riday would he asked for, as the case was one to be dealt with bv the .Magistrate. He asked tliati the hail he made substantia].

The Dentil impressed upon Scott the .erioiisness of the charges, and said hail would have to he heavy. This kind at thing would have to lie stopped. Scott had taken upon himself the responsibility of assaulting a police constable. Scott: [f there was an assault it ianuul have been very serious, as neither of us carry any marks oi - The Senior Sergeant: All this will come out in evidence before the Magistrate and nut now.

A remand was granted, and bail was fixed, self in £IUt) and one surety of Cl GO.

FA I.D FROM TRICE. ClllilSK IILRUI. Nov. 11. Noel Rennett. a boy aged thirteen, of Riirwood, sustained injuiies to li is legs and lace through falling thirty feet from a tree yesterday. He is progressing satisfactorily.

DIUI. DROWNKI) IN I'OOk. CHRISTCHURCH. Nov. 11. A. u (fa M'Ouire, a little girl, was foiltul drowned in a pool near the reiiLioshnft on the bill-side at l.ako Coleridge yesterday. Her parents reside at the settlement.

BRITISH ST A 111 I .IT V. AUCKLAND, Noi emlxT 10. ’I lie people of Dreat llritnili still possessed the i|iialities which contributed so inm'li to the greatness cf their country in Dm past, was the o; in ion expressed by .Mr John Meiitgoim-iy. a prominent busines ; man cf Cbrislchincb. who retnrii«-:| hv Dm R.AI.S. Maliiira from a l 11 j> io I'.nglaml.

.Mr Mold-inmcry found that whil' there was a goad deal of talk as la trade depression business at heart was sound. A sure judication of the financial stability of England v.a- tlm fact tint there was always ample uiouev available for invcstmetil in go-id ■ tic, abroad.

li*- p* M-tcd h th" la- I *)l |he gi ••-.* mg slrei-glh ol the exchange rales v.ii foreign countries, and said that the pound sterling could lie broiiehl to par in lore-igu market ) whi-u this wr.. desired.

SALVATION ARAIY. AUCKLAND. November 10

One ui' I Ik* few places where llu> or- I ganisatioii of t lk* Salvation Army is not | established. is Fiji, Imt a inoveluent is now tiiuli'i' wav to bring 11 to island- | in line with almost all olln-r parts ol I llio lunpire. ' Commissioner llt.ggnrd ivinmed J>y tin* Makma tliis morning, aflor a brief visit to Suva, during which !u> ‘'pros-

pected.” with tlm object of placing 11: Salvation Army where its haulier im.t yet Hying. The ('otntni.ssioiier was well satisfied with his visit, hut eonld not give anv delin’ite information as to what would lie the outcome, as others interested wore forwarding reports, and all would have to lie (fine into and considered hefore any definite [dan was decided upon.

.MOTOR IXnrSTR Y\ AI’CKLAXI), Xovemlier 10. The establishment of the Ford Motor Company in Australia is the mission of Mr I’liilip (trandjeau. socrctaiy to the Canadian organisation. who is a through passenger on the Afahnra. The project is to incorporate a new company as a subsidiary of the main (oiicern, with a capital of £ 1.000,11 ( 'll. With Air Grandjoan are Alessr.s 11ukrt Freneh and R. A. Ahufarlaiie. respectively general and sales managers of the new eoncern.

The scope of operations in Australia has not yet been finally settled, hut the preliminary [dans are for the creation of five assembly plants at the main centres, and one I a rye hody-hiiilding plant.

ITieli protective duties on complete cars have been an inducement to take up the new enterprise. The Canadian company has decided to work inside the tariff harrier, so far as the assciiil.Jy and body-building are con-

cerned. Air Cinndjean weuld not imdertake that this would effect an immediate reduction ill the price of his company's article on the .Austral inn market, hut said that that should he the result when the organisation had been perfected, and was in smooth running order.

As for X’ew Zealand there were no plans in the meantime, blit in Australia the time had arrived when separate organisation and direction wore requited for the control of existing business in its development.

TOAVX PLANNING. AI’CKLAND. Xovemlier Id. Included among the passengers who arrived at Auckland this morning by the Arakina was Sir John Sulmnn, chairman of directors of the Sydney "Daily Telegraph” and president of the Town Planning Association of New South AVales. Sir John is also chairman of the Federal Capital Advisory Committee, and as a representative of the Xew South AVales State Government attended the recent international town planning conference at Amsterdam. of which body he has been reappointed v i cc-p resid on t. • Interviewed this morning. Sir John said that on the question of town planning he had nothing to say, as he had to report to the various State Governments, and no doubt if the Governments saw fit his reports would he published in due course. He had been away eight months investigating 'lie actual working of the Commission. The Federal Government in Australia had just appointed three Commissioners, and the whole question of town planning for Canberra- would be tho-