DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 May 1925, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[liy TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOC'ATI ON.] RIG FIRM FAILS. A CHRISTCHURCH SENSATION. CHRISTCHURCH. May 20. Tic tin Ist, hnrTi “Sun’' to-night states:—‘'Sensation h..s been caused in business circles in Christchun h through Kaye and Carter Ltd., the well-known firm ol merchants am! exporters, going in! i voluntary liquidation.

’file a flairs of Kaye and Carter Ltd., have been involved through export (iterations in meat and wool. The drop in tie- Home market has been causing the trouble. From several aspects the failure is tiic niii't startling one in in Ist liurch for many years, aife-.t-ing as it does many business concerns throughout the Dominion.

There was an informal meeting of a section of the unsecured creditors yesterday. their claims auioiiiititig to between L 12.000 to Ll l.OuO; hut if was adjourned until to-morrow in order to

i-ci-iire greater ro| resell tawon. Mr Gavin Amhrson. of London, a member of the firm of Gilbert. Anderson and Coy., ot London, which have acted as the London agents tor Kaye, and Carter Ltd., mostly meat operations. was present, and he stated that a Hireling if Kaye and Carter Ltd., held that morning, had derided that the company .should enter into some form of voluntary liquidation. The whole situation is very complicated, many issues being involved, and. at the moment., an estimate of the iinaiu ia! pc ituni ol the cum era is impossible. Even the question of an .nCtual deli ii S-, ciu-. an oicn one. On as; c t I- the relationship ol (lie colllpanv !i a wool ox; oi ling cnneei if. whi-h involves further questions «if guarantees to the hanks.

The prill ipals of the firm state that the position is brought about through the financing ol a certain firm of wt o' exp riri’s. and. owing to the serious de line in tlm wool market facilities fur further irelits have been withdrawn. FISHING BOAT UDUNDED ' W HANGAR EI. May -sb An III! 'uviahle expel!-mi' is narrated ',\ t'e owner. Mr Marl; .1 uroknvii h, of lie ri'.i-tered auxiliary fishing boat "Mar-d n No. I.Tii." In c. mpaiiv wit It ha . a. Erank and a a.am r rank EiVuiiia. while li si’ ia <g off Poor Knights Ishiuil- in fll fathoms at I 1.3(1 on Monday llie hi, the vessel struck a. sulimer•l ruck and wa~ badly holed. Ry dint of (onlinuoii- bailing lor two hours and a half the craii was kept alloaf until she was manoeuvred into six fathoms iii a comparatively sheltered posit ion. w here she dived, tio-.e iirst. I / the bottom. Dealing at 2.31) a.m. on Tuesday ill a fourteen feet- dinghy, lie* three men sel out for Xguinguru on the mainland. twenty-live miles distant, tic uuirnev oecutiying nineteen hours, and involving strenuous rowing the whole lime in a strong south-west wind, with a henvv sea runniiig.

The Mai'den. w hich sailed Irom Hue Tree Point, near the entrance of Whan.uteri I!arbour, is thirty-four leet by ten. w ith two ton ol ballast. She was valued at tli'-ee hoiindred pounds. There i< no insurance She had over a ton of fish aboard at the lime sl’» foundered. Elforts will prnhahly he made, when the ciretimsta mis are lavoiirahle to sali'e the shi]>. A week-end parly came overland in W'hnngarei Irom N'caingurii this aiternocu.

SCIRIOI, HOLIDAYS. AUCKLAND, May 21. Tlm .\lli klaml Eduealinu Hoard has decided In re-<iiid its previous decision lo grant only one week s holiday ill ilie -•■imuis in August next, and has decided that the schools should close low it lor two weeks. Ihe health ot the children was put forward as one argument in favour ol a longer holiday. 11l ISIMTA I. M ATT ERS. \V EI.I NGTON. May 21. A recoininemhil ion In tin* delrgalvs at i In* fori booming 11 ■ ii Ia I Hoards conferom e was discussed hv the \\ <• 11 - iitgloii Dual'll, the me imp urging thill the reeiiin lnenda 1 ion ol the Dircetor General ol liealih should he adopted, viz.. "Thai t hi* houoraiy medical stall may b* remnneral e;l for whole or pari, lime services. Mr Castle the late chairman said that changed cireiimstam os '.. re making ihe honorary system ol medical dlicers uiisaiisiaeta.lv. Doctors went on Imuarary si ill! because they had facilities to gain surgical experience and wealthy penult* look advantage ol the p.ub!ic hospital because 'hey could gel the best services and attention more cheaply than outside. Mr Appleton opposed raising the charge to fifteen shillings daily, hut considered the time had come lor the ins! it ill ion cl a private ward system. Every doctor should he permuted lo | H > a honorary medical man at the hospital and patients able and willing lo pay for their services 'should he able to nominate doctors.

The Chairman remarked the whole matter would he dealt with at the Conference. Ho thought that people Humid not be debarred from paying more Ilian 15s a day. Private wards were necessary and would be expenid vc. DLLR LOR DI'XEDI X EX 11 MR TI ON. TIM ARC. May 20. Tn If 101 the Duke of Bedford presenia |\nv thar to the New Zealand (iovi rnment. They were liberated at Mt. Cook, where they have increased rapidly, until now there are some hundred- of them there. It has not been pcnni-sahlo to shoot them. hut. under a warrant from the Internal Affairs Department, one was shot this week IV, r the Duimdin Exhibition, this being the first thar shot in New Zealand. HANNAN'S XL XT RACE. WELLINGTON. .May 21. Ihinsan lonves fur Sydney tn-morrow. {>•' LSBH iv»quir**d for tl':C* slake und t'S.VMSf.s f„r the match against Coodsell V. was subscribed in Bleuheir.i and Hamilton, and the remainder was found 1,,- the Auckland sportsmen. Tauran-m residents presemed him with a pew boat which will ho built by Ceor ;e Towns. VALUE LESS CHEQUES. ALCKI.AN'D. May 21. At the Police Court. John Edward Weldon was sentenced to three years r,‘formative detention on eight ehaiges ~f obtaining goods tallied at CM and ~i )sl , c ir, by means of valueless cheques. STAMP DLTY CASE. HRPTCHLRCH. Muy -’l. | The hearing was continued this morning of the 'lamp duly ease in] which t' e defendant' are P redorick Wilding. K.C.. and Leslie Arthur Dou- , all. well km.wu solicitor'. Evidence Vcas’ given hv John 11. I'pham. solicitor. on.’- occasion he told Dougall tee latter could not put through a transfer from Kowroii Bros to Campbell direct. When informed later this 1 had been done witness was annoyed. Possibly witness said, "You have put the fat in the lire." \ WOMAN'S SAD END. AITK LAND. May 21. M.rs Emma Margan. aged fid. died at Onchunga from poinsoning. within hall an hour of a doctor arriving. She was much depressed since the death of her husband five weeks ago.