DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 January 1925, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

(by telegraph—per tress association. A DIFFICULT JOURNEY. GISBORNE, January 14. While journeying from Opotiki tile Fisk Jubilee Singers met with a mishap. While endeavouring to cross a torrent twelve miles from Opotiki, on the Meremere Hills, one ear got stuck in the middle of the swollen creek. The other attempted to low it out, hut slipped over the bar into the stream. The passengers escaped without difficulty. A portion of the wardrobe was damaged. OBITUARY. AUCKLAND. January 11. The death is announced of Captain James Crawford, aged seventy-nine. Formerly he was master of the Stormbird and other vessels. INVERCARGILL, January 14. One of .Southland’s most prominent farmers and runholdcrs, in the person of Mr George (Rowings, late of (Jclnalg Estate, Mossburn. passed away at his residence, Wellington Street, Invercargill, at the age of seventy years. APPOIXTMEXT OF TEACHERS. WF.LLIXGTOX. January 11. Judgment, was given by Mr Justice Hoskins to-day in a case of interest to teachers. Thomas Kane had asked for a writ of mandamus against the Education Board on the grounds ol its failure to appoint a headmaster for the .Mount Conic school i rom applicants who answered the advertisement. The Judge held there was 'nothing to compel tiie hoard to make a selection from such applicants il none was. considered suitable, and that it had a right to invite further applications. Ho dismissed the case with .£,lO co A MATE UK ATHLETICS. M ELLINGTON, January 1-1. The Australian amateur athletic authorities have notfied Xew Zealand that the I'olowing athletes are available to visit Liu* Dominion C. Parker and Greiian i Queensland), Harbison. While. Duigan, Almond andf Mason t,New South Wales], Carroll and li.vde (Victoria). G. Parker (walker) and Scott ihurdler), ITeskinson and Payne I (all-rounders), of Xew South Wales.

The Xew Zealand Association lias asked that Greiian and Parker, with Hutton (Xew South Wales) and the two champion cyclists, should he sent, When a reply is received the council will lie convoked, and it will also deal with tin* position in Auckland regarding the championships in which it is felt the Auckland Association has acted under a misapprehension. MUNICIPAL MILK. WELLINGTON, January 14. Mr Bennett, chairman of the City Milk Committee, stated to-day that some time ago they had had to lace a big deficit. Tliat deficit had been wiped off. and the committee had a credit balance of somewhere about £3OO. ILe imped also that the committee would lie able to fix a price bn next winter lower than lor last winter. FLOUR SHORTAGE. WELLINGTON, January 11. Some surprise was expressed in the grain trade to-day at the receipt if a letter from Distributors, i Id., directing the distribution ol flour from the mills, to the effect that (four would be short, and that the cause was insufficient wheat. TRAIN FERRY SERVICE. BLENHEIM. Jtmary in. An important statement in reteieme to the completion of the Main I rank Railway and the institution ol a transNtrait Ferry Service, was made by the Him. Mr Bullard, when bearing a deputation from tlie Marlborough Trotting Club and the Vairsui Willey Racing ( lub io-da;. .

“Vpi 1 talk a lot about your isolation." remarked the Minister. “Well that will end some day. Borne was not built in a day. but you've read tin’ ri■ 11 ort of tiie Railway Commission, and here is iho prospect of tin* completion of tin* railway. It means two and a lin If millions to give a ferry service ami link up fin* railways. H would mean a great advantage in tin* transport of goods, in-cause produce could |,e leaded al. Auckland and unloaded at Bluff. without extra handling." This state of affairs, he added, would arrive probably sooner than his hearers thought. He was a strong advocate of the proposal. .Personally, lie was in favour of starting right away, lie would iiivnur going on tin* market and raising a loan, right away. Tt was,

1 however, a mailer for the 'Minister ol Finance. hexed in exhibition. GERMAN'S BARRET). DUNEDIN, January 15. The question of allowing the display of German goods, at the Exhibition to he opened in Dunedin in November next was discussed by the Directors of the Exhibition Company in committee to-night. Alter the subject had been gone into thoroughly the following motion was carried : ‘‘That, in view of popular sentiment in the Dominion, this Board decides to refuse any applications for space from nations of ex-enemy countries.” EIRE. AT MARTOV. MAR-TON, January 13. A fire at two o’clock this morning gutted the northern portion of a twostorey modern building occupied by Lloyd, TJd., Drapers, Broadway. The flames bad a strong hold when the brigade arrived. The Presbyterian and English churches were threatened hut were saved. The damage is estimated at £13,000. The insurance is €IO.OOO on the stock in the Sun Office.