DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 February 1925, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

[I)Y TIvblXillACII —l’Kll I'IIESS ASSOCIATION.] GOY E 1 >Nui ’~G E N ER A L. WELLINGTON, February 20. The Governor-General and Lady Alice Eergussnn propose to visit Western Samoa, the (look Islands, and Niue Island this year. Definite dates have not yet been fixed, but it is probable their Exi ellcneies will leave Auckland at the end of April and return to the Dominion during the second week in June. ’ BUSES EXCLUDED. AUCKLAND, Feb. 20. The City Council has decided to exclude motor ’buses from the main portion of Queen Street, where, since the advent of ’buses the traffic problem has become acute. ’Buses in future are not to enter this bottic-ncck, hut must pick up passengers in Upper Queen Street, or at its foot on the waterfront. The trains, owned hv the city, will use the whole of Queen Street ns at present. The decision was rceived, most unfavourably by bus owners, as they are excluded from the best loading area for their vehicles. NETTING OF SALMON. AUCKLAND, February 20. The netting of quinnat salmon, which may bo sold to the public, is being permitted this season under certain restric tions. Speaking o-day, the Hon. G. J. Anderson. Minister of Marine, referred to the matter, and said that the fish might he netted either in the rivers of Canterbury and Otago, or in the sea, Quinnat salmon, he said, was probably the finest fish food obtainable, and now that the fish was thoroughly established the Department would not be justified in allowing his waste of food to continue. That was why netting was being permitted this year. The handling of salmon commercially was a new thing in Now Zealand, and il had been necessary to impose certain restrictions until experience had been gained. This year’s activities were more or less of the nature of experiment and fishing for salmon for sale would be permitted in the Clutlia, Waitaki, Bangitata, Bakaia, and Waimakariri Rivers, and their estuaries, while sea fishermen would lie allowed to operate within a radius of .jOO yarns of the mouths of rivers.

REMANDED TO SYDNEY. DUNEDIN. February 21. At the Police Court, Ethel May Gallagher age’d 32, was charged with failing to account for £IOOO sterling at Sydney, was remanded to appear there in the custody of Hillian Armfield, sergeant of police. Sydney. INFANT’S DEATH. TIMARU, Feb. 22. The body of an infant was picked up on the beach a mile south of Timani, bv three boys, when fishing. At the inquest to-day the medeinl evidence showed that the child had lived two months and had been dead about 14 days, and that the indications pointed to death through asphyxiation. The inquest was adjourned sine die.