DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1925, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

[av Ti:i.i;Gi;Ai'Jt— rut chess association.] A RECORD SKASO.V. I' OH NEW ZEALAND TO 1 it I.ST 1! ESORTS. A ELLINGT OX, .January >. •foe i,| ilie busiest Government departments during the present itolidtiys has keen the Government Tourist Lurenu, whieli lias Imndled an enormous amount of trafiie during the past Icrtiiight.

A "I imes” representative who >-isitcd the office on Saturday morning found it ( rowiled with people all seek■u.'t inlonnation concerning various trips and excursions or making the arrangements necessary for undertaking them. "Acs. it is fairly busy,' 1 said the general manager. Air J. W. Clarke, "I»ut it is nothin”; to what it has keen ; the hi” rush i.s casino; off. The present holiday season has the record ol being the busiest ever experienced in the Wellington liureaii. Practically every resort in Xew Zealand was inquired about and some thousanils of people have keen hooked to various places." Asked which lie thought was the most favoured resort this season, Mr Clarke said lhal the honours seemed to bo fairly evenly divided between Rotorua, Wairakei and the Waitomo Caves in the North Island, and AH. Cook and Fran/. Josef Glacier in the South Island. The How of overseas tourists had been quite up to il it did not exceed that ol previous years, and there wore heavy advance hookings from Australia and America still to ho dealt with. The available accommodation tit the places in popular favour had keen severely taxed. Notwithstanding the increased accommodation provided hv some houses, there iiad been many people who were unable to

get in at the resorts they wished to visit, i.wing to their leaving their arrangements too late. The hookings from Australia of those still in come over were very heavy, and provided there was no hitch in Liu- steamer sen-viee the traffic from that country would eclipse anything previously handled.

INFANTILE PARALYSIS. WFU.IXGTON. January S. Cases of infantile paralysis continue to he reported and there have keen nine in the last two days. Ihe Health I department has issued a statement deprecating the removing ol children a wav on the ground lhal it is much more likely to spread the disease. The Department recommends parents to keep them out ol public places and crowds, and expects the epidemic, to pass awa.v in a short time. Adults are rarely attacked, hut are li;di!e lo act as carriers. X<> Fi'TF.CT OX X.Z. WELLINGTON. January A Interviewed on the subject of the Australian shipping hold-up. Air I . W ■ Young, secretary o! the Xew Zealand Seamen's Federation, said the -Rii.ition in New Zealand bad so tar mn keen alieeted by the ciilhal position in the Commonwealth.

When asked if it was likely in le. Mr Young cautiously replied: " I """ not sax any t Iting a.to I hut. Ibe de | M d- are s-1 involved and -u little I ii In n id" I am i"

p,, ~ to, |.• .1K -< '••■l*', I 1.. 1 lowl.l. . M, Young i’ll rt tier M-ilc.l that l-'i’derat ion liii‘l n<>ll l ill'-i l" do n ll vll si ll that happened in Australia, and will'll asked whether In- coUsideic-! the A list r:i ii;> n ii is[-ut <■ ns a lliiiHi apart from Now Zealand. la- ■ ■ Ws, as a t hi up: apart.' NO XK\Y YKAII'S HAY. Al'l K LAN D. January A. ■■ No, nothing eventful happened nU tlu* wav ai-ross Inna Moniie.il to Auckland. There were no stowaways and no accidents. lull there m one t hiiiu; wc miss'd. New 'icars Day. and I,nine mostly Scotchmen, we tell il very much.” So said V r 1.. * lie,d rew, chief oilier of Ihe < a moll an (loverlllll •• n t steamer Canadian tnr strnetnr, on ihe vessel s aiiii-d Anekland from Montreal this morning lie eNplaiin'd tlnii, t Il rough the m I nine Oil ihe I Stull meridian on dan nary I , New Year's Day was lost, ami as proof of this, he presented a ship's lop-hook, in which the hist entry lor the year lii-M "'as December :;i and Ihe lirst entry I'm ' uil: ' January a Ain;D!'.i: ( n.\ikm:. (I L.SBUItNK. damtary S. \ half caste. Donald SieW.Ul. alias I’eta I'uuara. aped 17 years, reee.itlv sent eiiccd to thr.-e months at Diunmaru Day for theft, v.as before ihe Mae'-isirale's Court this morning on a eof at tempt imp to murder a woman. I'araihia Walker. The charge , .euni-l to the trial at Napier ol a Maori girl on a eharpe of aUemptniP to murder her mistress at Mnipn'.n putlinp causli • soda in the pormlpe. site wart is now eharped w.th the ol(Vine and was remanded to Nape r.