DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 February 1925, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[by TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] A CHILI) DROWNED. CHRISTCHURCH, February 5. Margaret Aland Clark, two years of age. was found drowned at. the residence of her parents, Worcester Street, to-day . While playing, the child wandered to the front of chc house, and apparently . fell in I lie pond front ing the house. I When found life was extinct. CHRISTCHURCH WOOL S \I.KS. . CUR IST( 'll UR H, Fell. 5. The third Christchurch wool sale of the season was commenced to-night, when “808 hales of a catalogue of 20,000 were olfered. The wool was heavier in concliU ion than that of the previous sale. There was a full bench ol buyers. Prices showed a substantial drop on all classes, compared with the January sale, to the extent of 2;d to 2d for crossbred, and up to 2.U1 on finer wools. However, all round the sale was a sounder one than at Timaru on Saturday. American and local competition was more prominent than p;o----viously for liall’lircd wool, and a correspondingly lighter proportion went to Home buyers. A giiad deal of merino wool went in (he latter direction, and a fair proportion of coarser wool to Continential buyers. Several of the most prominent Holin' buyers at the previous sale had short having commissions. To-night the top price was 2,2'd for sixteen hales Blenheim (Melds Hill) clip. Bidding generally was slack, and sixteen per cent of the first catalogue of 5000 hales Wits passed in.

CO All ’CI ~SO R V EX BOLAIENT. WELLINGTON, February I. The question of compulsory enrolment under the amending Act of last session was discussed b,v the executive of the New Zealand Licensing Reform Association and it was decided to send a letter to the Minister in charge of the Electoral Department to the effect that the* general opinion of the meeting was that not one in ten of the electors of New Zealand know they arc automatically removed from all rolls, or that they arc personally responsible for securing their own enrolment and are liable to he lined if not enrolled before .March fi.

“'ll. is held that tin l lucre leaving of forms at the doors hv the Postal Department with a printed Jen Hot netting out the position of electors in formal terms, is not sufficient notice or warning to the individual.” a letter to .Mr Massey states. “This association therefore, re.specjtf ally suggests that the Electoral Department should scud a personal notification to every elector who recorded a vote at the la.sL election. anil wlio.se |cn!i| ilmcnt. appliciv tion under the new system has not. come to hand by the tenth of this month (February) issuing a warning :,i emphatic terms that a breach of law will be committed unless application for enrolment is made before March cl. The executive is confident that unless *',is step is taken and much grimier publicity given to the position of citizens under the Act. a very unsatisfactory stale of affairs will he created. The executive trusts that steps will he taken immediately to prevent, a. false position in regard to this matter.” OBITUARY. CHRISTCI! URCII, February 5. Obituary—W. 11. Graham, for over forty years connected with the Press company, latterly as assistant editor. He had a lengthy illness. A DENIAL. (’l llt I HTf'.l I URC‘II. February (i. A statement contained in a Press Assocint/ion message and attributed to Wynne Wiliams, fourth officer of the American steamer West Calcrn. was denied this morning by a New Zealander. employed as an A.IS. cm the same vessel. He particularly objected to the allegation that, the masters of ships; in America bad to have recourse to gaols in order to gel. crow.-. II" said this was totally untrue and a slur on respectable t.i u.

HON 4. G. ('OATES. LYTTELTON TUNNEL DUPLICATION. CHRISTCHURCH. February <h Hon. G. Coates (Minister of Hailwavs and Public Works) arrived this morning and met deputations which urged the duplication of the Lyttelton tunnel and asked that vandalism he stopped at the Provincial (ouncil chambers where ugly buildings are being erected. CHHISTCHURCH TO HOKITIKA. CHRISTA I It'll (’ 11, February 0. The intention of the Kailwady Department to speed up on the express service between (’firistchurch and Hokitika and between Christchurch and lllicrcargill was indicated by the Hon. .1. G. Coates (Minister of Railways) this morning.

In regard to the ,le|mlioation of the tunnel he said a committee of engineers had the matter of the surveys in hand.

Gil It ISTCfI intOl l wool, SALK. ( 11 H I >T( I I rut'll. February fi. The third wool sale was continued this morning when passings were not su heavy, hut prices were on much the same basis as last evening.

POST OFFTCK BURGLED. AUCKLAND. February fi

Thieves entered the Alanurewa Post Office last night and endeavoured to open the safe b.v a charge of dynamite, which was insufficient, it merely dam-ao-ino the locks so that the door was, innimed and could not be, opened. The window above the safe was shattered but no loot was seemed.

RFI \PSF.S OF HICKSON BVI'IKNTS. AUCKLAND. Feb -L |, has c line to the- ho' .ledge < f the medical profession in AucJa al unit a number of patients who were cured or partially cured of paralysis at the Hickson faith mission have had relapses and have been notified among the recent cases of paralysis. W bother the malady id exactly the same as that or the epidemic has not been ascertained, ner whether it has been broulight on as a direct result of the epidemic or indirectly through positive fear o. the. ' llS \‘'statement that a t use of infantile paralvsis in To Puke had l.ecn cure., bv means of the Abrams treatment tu» made by Air P. H. Dicker at las eve ine's meeting of the Peoples DealtSociety in the Leys' Institute over which gathering he invaded. Mi '• kev said the case was vouened to 1» the child's teacher. The little suflerebad been unable to walk lor lorn >e.u.. but after receiving a course of A brains treatment was able to run and play m th,' same was as any healthy club..