DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 January 1925, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. BABY DROWNED. HAW ERA, January 29. The seven months’ old baby of 3fr 'and Mrs V. It. Hobday was drowned fit their home, Manaia, to-day in a tub of water. The mother has been taken to the hospital in a state of nervous collapse.

CONDITIONS AT H031.E. PEOPLE NOT STARVING. DUNEDIN, January 29. “It is-a mistake to think that the people of England are starving,” remarked Captain A. W'. Pearse, the Australasian representative of the Port of London Authority, to a reporter yesterday. “ They are earning good wages and are living on the fat of their own and of other lands. The working people are not living in misery.” The 1.300,000 unemployed were, he declared, mostly those educated to he unemployed, who were content with the dole of 18s a week. Ihe workers owned their own homes, or were getting homes together, and they did not want Communism. Tbe farming classes also were comfortable and ran their cars as in New Zealand. It was because they were prosperous that they did not emigrate.

SANDERS CUP. AUCKLAND, January 30. The first race for the Sanders Cup was sailed to-day. It was won by the lona (Otago) by .‘imiris. Ssecs. from the Queen March (Auckland), the present bolder of the Cup. Tbe Wellesley (Wellington) was third, and the 3l.urihiku (Soutlilaiul) fourth. The Koniiii was next. The lona early established a lead, and held it throughout. The Linnet (Canterbury) gave up after being in a hopeless position.

SUDDEN DEATH. Tl MARTI, January 30. Mrs Watters, a married woman, a resident of Timaru, collapsed when riding home to-niglit in a Municipal ’bus, and died while medical attention was being sought. POLITICAL. WELLINGTON, January 31. A deputation of business men and other Wellington citizens waited recentlv upon Colonel T. 3\ . McDonald to urge him to stand for Wellington North at next general election as the first Unionist (Liberal cum 11c form) caiylidatc but the deputation lias, a.s vet received no definite reply.

taratu fatality. DUNEDIN, Jan. 30. The inquest on Jus McGowan, aged 53 .who was killed by a fall of gravel in Taratu 3!ino on January 22nd. while working with David Jordan. UiO feet below the earth .was held at Kaitan(Tnta to-dav, before 31 r 11. Dixon. S.3f. The evidence showed that the shaft was being filled with gravel, as lire bad broken. At tbe time the two men were working ill an empty compartment. scraping gravel through the bottom of a dividing wall, when it burst in on them from above . The Coroner said it was clear that the manager's order bad not been carried out, as there were seven times as much gravel in one shaft as in the other, the' proportion being greater than was thought. The two men had been sent down without a previous inspection of the adjacent compartment, mid the accident was duo to tins. The verdict was that AlcGowaii was killed bv a fall of gravel while working the Taratu Aline, on January 22 Reference was made to the fine work of the rescuers who risked their lives.