DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 January 1925, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[nr TELEGRAPH—rEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.] INTERESTING CASE. WAIPAWA, January IG. An interesting ease under the Land Agents Act was heard by -Magistrate Dyer yesterday. L. Hollings, was charged with carrying on the business of land agent without a license. The evidence disclostd one sale and several efforts to self the same property. The Magistrate held that this constituted a continuity of business and was not an isolated case. Tlie Magistrate imposed the full penalty of £SO, defendant having received t-'BL commission to which he was not entitled. LABOUR’S LEADER. WESTPORT, January Hi. Mr If. Holland met Teulia railway workers 'yesterday and said the Commission’s report contains useful recommendations, but he doubted it tbe money spent was justified. He could not find anything in the report that a local commission could mot have given. There were Dominion men who should have the opportunity to apply for Fay’s position. The hoard did not sun. the Labour Party without it included elected represetitaives of the workers in tho departments affected. He outlined his policy lo'' "ext election, when the Labour Party would have eighty candidates. CEMENT WORKER’S TERRIBLE INJURIES. WHANG ATI Id, January lfl. The death occurred at tlie Whaugarei hospital late last night ol J. C. Stubbs, an employee ol the Portland Cement Works, following on fearful injuriess sustained during the afternoun. Stubbs was aged forty. He

sloppiul upon tho foment conveyor, the cover ol which ££«ivc way and his foot became entangled in tho conveyor which dragged his log off at the hip.