DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1925, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

(BV TKI.KORAPn—rui riIESS association. A INK )TOI> SMASH. driver. ok oak akeezTed.

O.AMARF, January 0. A .serious accident occurred on the M:.in North Rond. just outside the borough nt' Oamaru. tit nil oarlv hour this morning.. "hen Robert James A'oiing. bootmaker, aged thirty-eight, received severe injuries to his head, resulting in his death shortly after admission to the public hospital. Tt, appears that a party of live left town jn an Overland car on .Monday evening for the purpose of allowing; K. FTesel"'ood (tobacconist) to deliver some cranio;.hones (for which he holds an agency) at Peebles. Returning, the party called at Georgetown, leaving there about 1 a.in. for home. According to tin' driver of the car, when nearing home the vehicle swerved, and the, hack portion came in contact with a telegraph standard, and A nung who was on that side of the car. had his head jammed hack against the hood, which was torn rdf. 1 lie car was stated to he travelling at a slow rate of speed, though on the wrong side <1 road. When the accident happened. Young was a married man with three children, and it is understood deceas-

ed’s wife and children were nt Oxford on holiday-.

ftcselwood. owner of the car. was arrested hv Constable Moore, and charged before Justices in the Magistrate's Court this morning with being under the influence of liquor while in charge of a ear. and was remanded to appeal- on Tuesday next, hail being allowed, self £3O and one surety of foil. An inquest is to he held to-morrow morning, on llie arrival ni the (.nini.ei (Mr 1C \V. Bundle. S.M.i hv t>>e express from Dunedin. AYATERKTBERE’ AAYARD. AYEI J.TXCTOX. danuary 0. The Waterside Workers’ t nion. at a stop-work meeting this morning, passed a resolution strongly eondemned the award whieli came into operation on December IS. The resolution says that the union takes “opportunity of expressing our dissat isfat lion with and iligu.st at and eontompt oi the award of a majority of the Court for making an award of only a hallpenny increase per hour. 'Pile resolution calls on the Minister of l.ahour and Minister of Justice to iiiKl’tiite an inqury into the proceeding.-- and findings of the Cmil with a. view of re-establishing '■uniidenec in that institutfioin. ‘Wo look on the miserahle halfpenny granted h.v the Court as a direit uisidt. says the resolution.

AYA'IT.KSI Dill’s T110C1! 1-E S ET'I’I ~E 0 OTSBORXE- January fi. 'Pile waterfront trouble has been settled. The men are to accept engagement under the award, pending •a conference in Wellington. denedix exhibition. BRITISH DISPLAY. NYKCI.I NOTON. January d. ( aptaiu Craham. oi the British (>ov,.niii,cut Department of Overseas Trade, lias arrived io Wellington from I .codon. 111. is p: oeeeding immediately to Dunedin to meet the directors oi the exhibition ami discuss with tlimn arrangements for purl icinat imi bv the British (T:\rinmelil. It w ill be recalled that, the British Coverument have Pal;, >ll gs.liou square feet ol space, which will! be devoted entirely to ollicial exhibits, individual displays of British manufacturers being separateIv organised. INI' ANTII C DAB Vl-YSIS. WKI.I.IXC lON. Jan. lb pi vo .mere city eases of infantile paralv.sis were renurt-d to-day. bringing the total under treatment in Wellington Hospital to sixty. Item iris show that i'r part ioin.ii nioas are n .led for the high slate of infretiviiy, patients coming from all parts of ihc cl and suburbs. The Ho.illli Department lias issued a -statement regarding necessary precautions. The outbreak iu no way siig-

(jests .in epidemic on the scale nl that of 1910. Many mothers nl young babies lm vi.* liet'li sealed, lint eases under Iren t ineiil at present eoneeni eliildl'en mostly l>etueen the aces of three and four years, though eliildl'en from one In eleven veal's are. in hospital. Crowded areas of eontaet are regarded as duiiUcr Will os lor e 111111 re 11 whereas ordiuarv precautions and eoiiiinoit sense on the part of parents should prevent the spread of the disease. At (K lAN]) WATKIISN iERS. U't 'l\ I.ANI). .7annarv 7. A pc- nl in i lahoni' dispute oeenrred on tlie Auckland waterfront this mornin.";, when ah-,ml sixty waterside workers refused to I ravel to Chelsea in oil launches. The men liar! been engaged to work a eurgo on hoard l li" \\ intjm tui at Chelsea. ’l’wo launches had he-n engaged to tarry them, hot the w.a.fersiders demanded to lie taken to their work hy vessels with steam power. The I'nion Company "ranted their request.