DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 June 1925, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ABSN-, COPYRIGHT. i DESERTERS IN PRISON. 1 AUCKLAND. May 23. I Several decisions were made by the hospital conference on the recoinnien- j dation of the special social welfare' committee. It was resolved to ask the Government to amend legislation in the ease of wife desertions so that prison pay should commence from tilt* date id senteiu e. A letter was read front the t'uiilrol-ler-Gi'iieral of Prisons, who said that the average wife deserter was usually a verv had prisoner, especially so tar as work was conicrned. lie usually preferred to lie given a punitive diet to performance of any work. Mr W. Wallace: If a wife deserter will not work it is a very fit case for the lash. •• It is scandalous that if a pensioner is given 2s (id a week for relief purposes that unit is deducted from bis pension.” said Mr Wallace in reference to a motion which was carried that relief should not he counted as iu-

--1 f a woman has divorced her husband and is receiving money, but is deprived of thi.-, through her late husband's death, she should receive a pension,” was a rosiuit which received the support o| Mrs A. E. Bennett. North Canterbury. It seemed wrung, said Mrs Bennett. that a woman with several children bail to lose her maintenance throe,gh no fault of her own. The conference adopted the remit. It was decided to a.-,k the Government to take aclieii against a mail one 1 r.ii l ll l behind in maintenance payments. In a letter the Fnder-Fei retary for •lustiee noiuted out that it was hoped in pass legislation to this elleet next

A resolution uas carried urging the Cover:: in. -iii to make stronger oxamina- ’ .ion of immigrants. The opinion was expressed Unit it had often been found ■ In aper in send whole families hack to England or South Africa rather than ‘ allow them to remain in the Dunlin- I ion. Had proper administration been I exercised the need would not have 1 been apparent. The Gnvornnieui was I ui vd in the resolution to pre-s lor 1 the provision of invalids pensions, es- < peciallv ill the ease of families sillier- 1 ing from t uhereulosis and chronic dis- ’ eases. . 1 At present, said Mr Wallace, this ‘ liability devolved upon hoards and the I granting of pensions would bring eon-, 1 siderahle alleviation. Closer exani.ina- 1 timi of tlie positions of persons luile.'u- > uting immigrants was urged in another 1 resulution adopted, the Bov. T. W . I Bolts, Timm, declaring that, people had s eome into New Zealand almost pelini- ’ less. ' The eouferenee decided to recommend 1 that the rebate to lYi -ndlv societies in 1 legard to hospital lees should remain ' :;t lifty per lent. j 1 DFNEDIN HOSPITAL. j 1 DUNEDIN. May 29.

A representative meeting of citizens waited on the Mayor, Mr 11. 1.. Tnpley. to-day and placed belore him the following resolution which it had adopted:- "That this iiweting ef citizens views with grave apprehension the lac!, ol elbci'-ut administration al the Du cedi ii 11 o'- pi la I. a- men led in I Incas..' ol the lali- Mr .James Bohertsnn. and desire you tii summon a | m 111 in meeting K>r the ourpm-e of selling: oil loot an ind'-j -intent and ,-i-a reliing inquiry in order to ii\ the respon-ibilily and to d.i-nl with the (piesiiun in geiiera!.” The Mayor said he would rail a public meet ing a-. rei|Uesled. and Iris now making the necessary arraligeliient s. .IOCKEY'S FAKED TEI.EGB AM. AEGKi.AND, May 29. The success of an apprentice jockey’s ruse to nrevent a rival from riding at a recent. race meeting af Hamilton resulted in his appearance in the Bolii-e Court to-day on a charge of forwarding a fraudulent telegram. The liffeiiia was admitted. Acting-Defective White said that in Auckland a jr.-key was engaged to ride a certain horse. Accused wished to ride tl.e mount himself, ami knew he would secure engagement if lie could prevent the other jockey from, atteml-

mg. and lie accordingly dispatched a telegram to this jockey from Frauklon to the ell'ect that the horse would not, start in the race. II" signed the telegram ''Jim,'’ which was appar-

ently sulliciont to convince the receiver i of its authenticity. The selected jockey did not make the journey to Hamilton, and accused code in the race as substitute. The Magistrate (Air .(. W. Poynton) —lt was a most unsportsmanlike trick, lie is liable to a line of L'lut) or three months' imprisonment.

Chief-Detective Cummings: He lias just finished his apprenticeship, and there is L'!",o due to him. There lias Isooii a fair amount of this sort of trickery. Accused is a first offender. Air Poynton: He will li nvo to pay the riding fee to the other jockey.

Accused asked for an order for the suppression of his name, sating that the Macing Conference would refuse his certificate.

Air Poynton: Aon are placed on probation for one’ year. I will suppress your name, but 1 have no doubt the racing authorities know who you are.

i t! AI XING OF XmSF.sk A I’CK I.AXT), A lay JO. Additions to the nurses’ Jiome at Auckland Hospital, which have been completed at a cost of over -CoS.OOO were officially opened to-day by the Minister for Health, Sir Alaui Pomare. The Minister said that on an earlier visit he had promised the nurses that he would introduce a superannuation scheme. A Mill was on the stocks and he hoped to introduce it this session. The nurses had asked tor maternity training in St Helen's hospitals. He intended to go further and hand these institutions over to the hoards on condition that they did not restrict the training to qualified nurses, hut allowed, other approved women to take courses' and qualify. ;

INCOME TAX A^EEs.MENT. ALT'KI.AXn. Alav JO

Failure to furnish return- of income for the years 10'JI to 1024 inclusive, resulted in four charges being preferred against A. A'. Docherty. hotelkeeper, of Kaihtt 'Mr Terry), by the Commissioner of Taxes (Afr Hubble) in the Police Court to-day. Air Terry said that the defendant would admit the omissions, hut challenged the assessments of income as compiled hv the Department. Air Hubble said that the defendant had conducted a .snm.il farm in eonIjunction with the hotel and had also opened a picture theatre. Assessments had been made from figures supplied by defendant. i

Tho Magistrate (Mr .T. W. • Poyntoii) held that the defendant would have an opportunity of disputing the actual amount of the tax due with the De--1 pnrtment. Tie had certainly defaulted in payments for four years. Defendant was tilled Vo on each charge. | DUNEDIN EXHIBITION. | DUNEDIN. May 29. I The finance committee of the Diuie- : din City Council to-day decided to ' make a gram of L'2ooo towards the cost j of the Otago court at the New Zealand 1 and South Seas Exhibition. j MANAWATU GORGE ROAD. | PALMERSTON X., June 1.

A conference of representatives of local bodies contributing to the Maimwain Gorge road improvement work, held at the gorge this morning, decided to approach the Government with a request to take over the work as it , stands. ROTORUA SENSATION. ■ ROTORUA. June 1. | At noon to-day. without warning, a ' nig area of ground in front of the Maori meeting home at Whaka subsidI ed. leaving a hole filled with boiling I water In feel deep. Yesterday a great crowd of visitors were on the spot, v.liieh was the scene of numerous entertainments, including those for the British, Japanese and American fleets. 1 Over it babas were performed I'm

' generalunis. I he hole measures on tin. i surface twelve fete by ten. but botli | sides are cavernous, and heavy steal! clouds, are issuing, and disguise it's ex-

tent. Uie meeting house is not appar eiiilv endangered, though a stnu-tui'.

adiacent is m process of undermining. The main road to the Sport Lath i> directly over the danger spot. The substance of the wails is pliable, and the ultimate limit of the subsidence is hard to define. Numbers of spectators, attracted by the news, visited the spot this afternoon, keeping a discreet distance. MOTOR MISHAP. DUNEDIN. -lunc 1. At Turrits tOtago Central) yesterday. a motel- capsized through a wheel coming oil’, dames .'.itki-n was admitted to the Cromwell hospital with ser--loiis injuries. NORTH ISLAND DOG TRIALS. GISBORNE. May 31. Practically all parts of the North Island are represented at the North Island i lian pionship dog trials to he (-..inm.-need at Gisborne nil lues-lay. ’i he entries received exceed those of the North Island championship meetings of recent years, there being -12 in the long head, 37 in short head, amt -I I in the liuuaway.

'i'llE IIYE-ELECTION. AUCKLAND. June 1. Mr McLennan, Guveninienl candidate for l-'rankiin seal, opened his campaign at !’a| akura to-night. IK- said l-e h It honoured at being asked to eou--1.--.L the seal. He felt be could not hope to emulate the great deeds ot bis disiingtiislied predecessor, but he would do hi- best in the inten st> of all section-. of I he eiininmnity. He cri 1 ii-i-fil the exposition ol land policy by Mr Montgomerie, tin* Labour candidate, lie said lie did not know what the ‘•itsoheld” tenure meant. J!e believed Mr Montgomerie expect'd the farmers to throw tliemsi'lv.-- I .ed v ami soul into the hands ol the Slate purchase oMieial, who would be the sole buyer of land under the scheme, and whose price they would he ci.mn.'lb'.l m lake. The Labour Party was prepared to take land at their own prii e. This meant cunliscation. or. as they termed it, nat ioiialisatinii. lie wanted to know if all the unearned iili i-.-meni went to the slate, would Labour l.e prepared In rciinip the speculates for ill-.' ruinous 10-m-s they had i:.i ;l.- in tin. -Itiiuji by buying land in exie-' til ii - valuer He con.-idercd that, seeing heavy burdens Mere borne by Ibe bind al pre.-ent in rates and taxes, the owner was certainly entitled to keep |.is freehold. lie claimed that trail- figures dis proved that the r: inn Iry ha s goi ng In rai I, and ruin I limu-.-Ji Reform's ad in iui -t ral 'mi. Mr V. li. Potter. M.P.. limn addressed ihe meeting. Tlie i niulidii te v. as accorded a vide i f i hanks.