DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 April 1925, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

(bv TELEGRAPH—PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. A POSTAL BALLOT. WELLINGTON. April 29. The Postmaster-General lias agreed to a postal ballot being taken for tin selection of a li.-teners-in representative on the Broach listing Board. Candidates will have to deposit £.l and forfeit ii , he does not receive ten per cent of the total votes polled. POSTAL A EFA IRS. WELLINGTON April 29. In a report to the Postmaster-Gene-ral. the Secretary of the General Post Office who attended the Postal Cnioii Congress at St:r kholm. says the British Dominions right to individual votes at the Congress has always been the side jeet of attack and was again discussed, with the result t!i;:t New Zealand is in a | o--.ilion to reduce the international letter pu-tnge late il'eiii 21 to two pence for the first ounce and from ltd to a penny for each subsequent ounce. This matter will he given serious attention by the New Zealand Department. The Congress decided on certain reductions in mail transit charges, which mean a small saving to the Dominion. The minimum surcharge on correspondence from oversea is reduced to ten (entimes (one [emiyl. At picseut in the ease of New Zealand it i* If pence. KJXE ME £2do. Cl I R IST ( II I'Ht'il. April 29. Roberl D. Benjamin, builder, of ( 111 islch iil'ch, was lined L'2A) by the .Magisirale this morning ni live charges of making I a Lx- iinonie lax returns, and Jailing to make, returns as required. The prosecution said it was a grave case anil instanced that in 1921. the lax aciniillv paid was £l3. and should have beau £1249. ALLEGED THEFT. PALMERSTON .V, April 29. A young man Dinhuim Gillespie, was charged at the Poliee Court with stealing £73 from the person ol Stanley Gibson, and was remanded til! I- i iday. It is alleg. ,1 the an used was one of a party who is said to have worked the confidence trick on the esplanade in February. later disappearing to Australia. An-used was sent hack to the Dominion from the Commonwealth and was arrested on arrival of the Elimar a at Wellington. BREACH OF REG ELATION. ELTIIA.M. April 2A. At the M ugisi r;i le's Court, Lester Bros, were lined £A for allowing a child oi four years t i enter a pla e ol amusement at Xgaere Gardens, in coniravontimi id the prohibition during the recent epidemic. This is ; -cquel to the cm.- tclcgrai bed on Ist. April. I.YSNAR COMMISSION. GISBORNE, April 29. The Meat Works Commission opened its Gisborne session ibis morning. It decided to inspect the works to-mor-row. Siiin' thirty or forty local witnesses will he called. The Commission ordered the books of the company to be made available lor iuspeelinn by an accountant.

CHILD BIRTH (.1 LEST'I ON. WELLINGTON. April 29. Sir Trilby King discussing the roll

ject of injury In an infant incidental to cbilil- liii't li, Niipporis c : 1 1;• ut i*>u I y Doctor Paget. (Ins; "•! c el Maternity Hospitals) flint with due precaution qualified midwives s'muhl Inallowed to administer chloroform where necessary, in the ai -eiice m a

doctor. King says the infantile mortality rate is still ton great in New Zealand, and approved of the us-- ol anaesthetics where the saving ci the life, of the mol her or child, or the mitigation ot the pain <*t iciiliucmeiit is concerned.

THOSE TOTE LICENSES. WEILLINGTON. April 29. | Inn. 11. E. Bollard says )„. has nothing to say in iiqly i > Sir George ( lifford's proiinum ennuit. heyi nil a denial that there has been any usurpation of authority mi Ids part. ’He (laming ,\i t clearly makes the Alinister of Internal Adairs i.-sponsible for tin- issue of tot a li.sal cr licenses and that responsibility he is ill’s, barging. A BAN KB l' I* f. WELLINGTON. April 29. ('apt. Badcock. flic coach. brought out h'.st year by the Cricket Association has filed a petition in bankruptcy. ACCIDENTAL drowning. WT IAX..’AII EI. April 29. A verdict of accidental drowning was returned at the Cor.-nial iuquiiy to-day colic.. ruing the death ul Robert William Beam', aged 2 years, whose dead body was found !y his mother in a creek al Kiitangata yesterday alternooii. The child had been missing from his home lor only a quarter <>l an hour. LINESMAN'S DEATH. PALMERSTON X.. April 29. At the inquest on the death of John Alurphv. a linesman employed by the Power Board, who fell from a transmission pole at I- ril. ling on I'ri.hp. hist and died eu route to the hospital, the coroner's verdii t was that deceased died of a broken neck, caused by a fallThe Coroner rniumclitcd that neceasod failed to observe the d •finite instructions issued to all employees. by not having worn a body belt on the null*. The Coroner urged the Board to see that all its employees obeyed the rogulat ions. AY ELLINGTON ELECTIONS. WELLINGTON. April 28.

.More than the usual amount of interest is shown in the Mayoral. -Municipal and other elections here for the reason that, there will be a try-out between the Citizens and Labour tickets. For the .Mayoralty, Mr E. Norwood, contests against Mr C. Cnapmaii (Labour) and for the C.nuiii! and the Hospital and Harbour Hoards full Labour tickets are being run. There also will be a poll on a £209.1 Md hum for paving purposes.