DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 March 1925, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

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SOLIC [TOR FINED

AUCKLAND, Alarcli 23

On a charge of not having his trust actount audited, a fine of CIOO, with costs .013 13s, was imposed on Henry .Edward Eliott, solicitor, of Opitiki at the Magistrate’s Court. Security for appeal was fixed at .020.

AUCKLAND WHARF DISPUTE. AUCKLAND, March 23.

The dispute over the discharge of a sugar cargo from the steamer Rona is unsettled. The vessel was again idle to-day. A cai! was (made this morning lor about two hundred men to discharge tho Rona. and stack the sugar in the store. Only thirty responded. An attempt to work the ship was abandoned. The Union officials state the men are willing to work if two men concerned are employed. The stevedore will not comply with the demand. It is doubtful bow tbe matter will lie settled.

TRAM FARES REDUCED. AUCKLAND, Alarcli 23. A new scale of fares and concession tickets, adopted by the City Council for the tramways is to take effect on April 6. The present cash fares of twopence, threepence, and fourpence, for the first second and third sections remain in force but tbe fourth, fifth, and sixth section cash fares are all reduced to fourpence irrespective of distance. Concession tickets have been reduced as follows:—First section, reduced to twopence; second section, one penny; third section, three-pence: fourth section, sixpence; fifth section, two and threepence. That is to say for tbe fourth, fifth and sixth sections a twelve trip concession ticket costs three shillings and threepence, irrespective of distance. A BOY DROAvivKD. PAH I ATT A, .March 21. \> illiam Gerald Fouhy, aged 16, son of Thomas Fouhy, a fanner of Marinin, wont for a swim in tbe Miingahao river, near his lather’s farm, and was drowned in a nine foot hole. SUGAR QUOTATIONS DOWN. WELLINGTON, March 24. It is understood locally that the sugar market lias eased considerably of late, present quolaiions being about 50s per ton less than a month ago. The reduction is attributed to tbe fact of considerable stocks having been built up and a steady supply being available. DOMINION’S SECONDARY INDUSTRIES. WELLINGTON, .March 21. 1.. R. Partridge, a former President of tbe Wellington Industrial Association. fears New Zealand’s secondary industries have a poor outlook. Manufaetu vers are lessening production and j are importing more machinery and goods from, abroad. Though higher wages are paid here for shorter hours production lias not kept pace i herewith. The restriction of apprentices is aiso a serious handicap. Local industries could not compete with America and Britain. It was essential that more men should be employed in the secondary industries, bill ibis was impossible unless higher protective duties were imposed or labour restrictions eased.

RIPPLE DISASTER ECHO. WELLINGTON, Alarcli 23.

All echo of the recent Ripple disaster was heard in the Arbitration Court vesterdav when Delia Pmkinghorne was granted L*lßo as compensation foi the loss of her son by o first marriage, lie being Daniel Patrick Crawford, steward. Maline Johansen, mother of a seaman. Bernard Johansen, "‘as awarded £203. The company did not dispute the claim. .MINISTER OF MINKS. DEPUTATION AT til! EYMOUTH. GREY-MOUTH. March 24. The Afmister of .Mines and Marine, the Hon (!. T. Anderson, this morning met the delegates of the State A liners’ Unic-n regarding the new agreement, and eventually an agi cement on the lines oi that accepted at Westport was drawn up to be submitted to a union meeting, whose acceptance is considered probable. The Ministe-. left for Kumara and Hokitika. JUDGMENT RESERVED. WELLINGTON. March 24. In the case of C. S. Clarke and Co., against the Wellington District Poultry Farmers’ Association, the Appeal Court reserved judgment. LOUGIIREA SCRATCHED. CHRISTCHURCH, March 24. l.oughrea. was scratched for Lite Great Autumn Handicap at ten this morning. ROY’S EVE DAMAGED. ELTD A.M’. March 21. Jack 'Gower, aged fifteen, will bo blind in the right eye, as the result of an accident u'l:cn playing witn a shot gun with bis cousin yesterday. One ol tbe boy’s fingers touched the trigger of the toy, which discharged a lean pellet into Gower’s eye, which was perlorated. The lad was removed to hospital. PRICE OF BREAD. WELLINGTON, March 21.

A protest against the recent increase in the price of bread and a suggestion that the Government should establish State bakeries in order to place a check on the price to the public was made hy Messrs Eraser, Monteith, ami McKcen, local Labour members ol Parliament to Sir E. Bell to-day. Sir Frauds replied that the Government had no power- now to act arbitrally as it did during the war, when it established State meat shops under the war regulations, but he emphasised the point that the Government was giving the closest attention to the question of the price of flour at the present time. At the same time he made the suggestion that municipal Bakeries should be started. motor car thief. CHRISTCHURCH, March 24. The Magistrate this morning sentenced Clarence Edward Williams, a young mam to two months gaol on charges of converting a motor car to his own use and driving it while intoxicated It was stated that accused knocked down a woman cyclist.