DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1925, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

BT TELEGEAPH— FEESS AOBN., COPTRIGHI. ELECTION FINALE. BALLOT PAPERS DESTROYED. WELLINGTON, June 10. Yesterday, sit tlio Wellington munieipal destructor, tons 3 ewt of ballot jiapers from the last Genera! Election u! members of the House of Representatives vere consigned to tho flames m the presence of the Clerk of the House itnd the Clerk of Writs. There is a clause iu the Legislature Act providing that the ballot papers shall bo so (lestroved.

Amongst those ballot papers the names of tWilliunt Ferguson .Massey and William Herbert Ilerries appeared for the last time. Other names of well-knowat members of the House of Repre 4 rntal ives who were defeated at the last General Election were those of (sir Joseph Ward, who was again defeated at tie. Tatirjinga by-election, the lion. K. I’. I.oe. Sir Frederick Rang, and Mr A. S. .Malcolm. None of those names, except that of Sir Joseph Ward, is likely to appear on the ballot papers of the next General Election. Tt took six men three and a hall hours to shovel the ballot papers into the destructor. RAILWAY SERVICE BARRIERS. AUCKLAND. June 10. Jo reference to the removal of the harrier separating first and general divisions in the railway service, the Prime Minister (U.e Hon. .1. Ci. Coales'), in his speech tit Cnkekohe last night, said there would lie no nlijeci ion to merit being tin* basis ol promotion. While members of the first or clerical division might not like il. a mail of ability in i tie genera! division should be able to go to tho top right through the first: division. AMERICAN' SPORTS. WELLINGTON. June 10. Writing to a friend in Wellington a well-known member of a local lifesating and swimming club gives a lew cf bis impressions ot American spot ts and pastimes as Inllows:--“I saw a few games of football, and if ynii know what a bull light is like yon know what Yankee fooutball is. | |,„vc been to several baseball games, ami if il is any different in the. lUiulamentals from our game of rounders then I’m a Dutchman. Pa lift ball, another great indoor sport, is a good woman's game, but they make il >o rough that it becomes a gam" b>r hooligans. ’I hey actually have State and national championships for maro-

"The liver that you can buy is rotten. If you want a good drink of wbi-slty you liav to pay about :i 'is a hot He. f trie-.! some of their home Invw beer, amt I have derided that in future 1 stay oil it.

MANY APR 1 KS IN STORES. AYELLIXGTON, June 10. 'Chore were 200.000 cases of apples ii, (o l store at Atiekland to-day. deMr U. I'irtli. at the Fruitgrower.,’ ("older: nee yesterday. when the

gatherin ; loii.sidered a propostil that a voluntary levy ol Id tier ease .should lie made on all fruit fur local markets. to provide funds for advertising. The Federation had started in a small way. added the chairman (Mr T. C. Brash), and had derided to subsidise pound for pound, any sums spoilt, for advertising by lo;al associations. All the' money hud not. been claimed. The resolution was defeated.

A FATA I, I'TIUT A OKI. All'll'.. .1 unc IS. A fill' destroyed l’cn no Mill! On's hag factory in tin- oily. Tlio v.atolini :>.n. 'Walter Mail, was burned to dcatli. Tin 1 damage is nut stated. DKKUS DKSTROI KIT WELLINGTON. dime 17. An admission that lie had Intrnt import ant legal documents, tiled in the Lands and Deeds Department, in connection with the resist rat inn of a ccrti 11 land transfer, was made by 'William I’erey Joyce, aged ID. charged at the M a gist rate’s Court, to-day with old i ierat i tig for fraudulent ])ur|inses lifty-fonr documents, affeet ill" certain land transfers, with forging fifty-four memoranda by removing the genuine stamps and replacing others, and with the theft of stamp.-! valued at. £ In. as a servant of (lie New Zealand Government. Evidence of the Audit Inspector showed that fifty-four legal documents had attached to them for stamp duty, stamps that had previously licen cancelled and attached to other documents. Unavailing .search was made for the documents from which the s 1 amps had heen removed. “I cannot say how many are missing, or what they are. A largo number are. missing, but we have heen unable to trace them. They are all of a most important nature. Some are mortgages, discharges of mortgages, and extensions. ’When interviewed liy Detective Nutfall. accused admitted that he removed genuine uneamelled stamps and replaced them liy cancelled stamps from other documents. He said that he destroyed the whole of the other documents. Some he burned, and some ho tore up and threw away. Most of the stamps that he took off lie took to the Dost Office, and with them purchased postal notes, which he turned into cash. He pleaded guilty and was committed for senlence. IKS.A. C’ONFKIIT’.XCK. WELLINGTON, dune 17. The Dominion eon for nee el the R.S.A., with delegate; from all pa "is of New Zealand. commenced Dos morning, C >l. Stewart presiding. Tie delegates were welcomed l.v the Pi'iai l y -A! ay or.

The annual report -la led that the ‘ canteen fund totalled Cl7:.’.dnl). ao increase of £D lli I. The Association eommvmded 1 he lew id's da Non to grant £l(H(;t emmallv for ten years, from the inien-l. to tl •• Tienlhe.in S- !io!arship final. As regards war funds, I he e\ro. id lucoine wa- ‘ tldpi. and the total fund- in hand > £]lD.S':n. ! The reporl also eioit.aiued a warn ' ref roil ,■ to the late Premier. The re• i -ri . re ‘ i riiu.' t i i he A ial, land picture proprietor- preporing ’ I. • t it i<l I : hold the ob or. alio -r! Alizae Day on the iieare-i Sunday wastrongly opposed staling: ••The feeling of sol'll imaul and grill it tide seem' to ha ve deserted rerlain sections when such movement- are supported. It remains for the Association, representing dead comrades, to see that those feelings are revived, and tin law not altered one iota.” The reporl al-i declared ihat immigration of I’riti-h born people was essential and 1 he nominated -ystem was iiuidepiiate to meet the need-.. At the present rate of progress, to obtain half a million immigrant-- it would ho necessary t'> "'ait ah-mt sevoiit v-six y-. o 1 -. It adVocall d on additional sv.-tem. -mh at special lection- in liritaiu. with a view to farm training in New Zealand. for eventual -cttleim-nt on Grown farm lands. The report was adopted. The Pillowing remit from Canterbury Association was carried: “That 1 ihe Government be strongly urged to ( retain the Cashmere Upper Sanatorium. as the military sanatorium for the whole of the Dominion.” ,

AMERICAN FLEET. V,’ELLINGTON, June Kb The Minister in charge of the Publicity Oflice (lion. G. J. Amler-oti) advises that by the ‘.Frisco boat this week a consignment of IS.CliOlt. or nearly throe miles, of selected cinema films went forward to the American fleet at Honolulu for distribution amongst the ships that are coining to New Zealand in two months' tree. The films, which are thormigl.v descriptive <T the Dominion, ore put up in op;)-) ft spools, titled and ready for screening, and should he tlie means of giving the crows "I ice warships a go id idea, in advance A the kind of country they ar • coning te-

as well as being a good advertising medium. It is known that there tire some If) einmoa machines in the fleet;

By the same mail were pusU.'d samples of New Zealand publicity literature. and a large number of street maps of Auckland and Wellington, mr inclusion in any fleet pamphlets mat may be issued on board. In ' ! '• tlm'l ii may not be submerged by the largo quantity of Australia:' pamphlets. etc., that are being plac'd on the slops at Honolulu, it m il!e J ll ' tent ion to have the balk < i tin Nt Zealand data delivered t i me fleet at the Australian ports immediately prior to its departure for New Zealand-