DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 September 1925, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

BY T2AKQEAPH—P2EBS ABBN., COPYBIOHT. ONE il INDUED TEAKS OLD. WANG ANT I. Sept. 10. Mrs 11. A. Wells, of Wanganui, reached her hundredth birthday today’. She possesses all her tacultios and is able to walk about. She. was born tit Ewell, in Surrey, ami speaks interestingly of .incidents in King William IVVs reign. The Governor-Gen-eral visited her last week and expressed surprise at her wonderful memory. DIG DAMAGES CLAIM. HAMILTON, Sept. 17. At the Supreme Court. W illiam Allen Paterson, a farmer, of Te Kapa, and Jane Paterson, of Auckland, sued Frederick Charles Hand, land agent, formerly of Hamilton, for £lo.0(!0 damages for alleged misrepresentation io connection wild the sale ol a farm property. The ease i- proceeding. WOMAN'S snciDK. A FGK LAND, September 17. Eleanor Kinsella, a single woman, about Id. was found dead this morning with her throat cut at her home Sc. Albans Avenue, Dominion Road. GOV EK.NOK-GENKK AL. NEW PLYMOUTH, Sept. 17.

Owing t" the very unfavourable weather llie Governor-General's pmj,visit to Mount Kgnidiit has been abandoned and the party return to Wellington to-morrow morning. SUDDEN DEATH. TIMARU. September 17. Ales Sarah Davison, aged til, died suddenly at Pleasant Point. UN REGISTERED dentists. AUCKLAND, Sept. t|,e po-itiem of unregistered den-;i-t-. was brought to the notice oi the Hospital Hoard last evening by a lettor from the Unregistered Dentists’ Association. The letter stated that the present positou uas most ac ute. 1 nrogistcied men were competent operators. They had licon trained for years by ipialdied men. ami had over live years’ study. If the Dill became law they would he The ( hamanon (Mr W. A\ allace) „aid lie understood the Prime Minister had said he was not going on with the Dill this session. He thought those unrc'c'istered men should have some protection until the Bill should come I,afore Parliament. That seemed a lvnsnnnUlo tilingThe Board derided to ask the Prime Minister that, if the Bill did not come Ivfoiv the Hems.' this session. meregistered dentists should he given protection in tile meantime. The chairman .said he understood that many dentists in Auckland had their pass through length of service, ami not through the l nivei'sity at all. A BROKEN t ADIT. TI.WAHU SHORT OF POWER. TIM A UP. Sept. Hi. Timaru wa> still without puwt'i' trom Lake Coleridge to-day. and manufacturers with civ trically driven plants wore put to very great inconvenience) through having the whole or a part of their machinery standing idle tor live davs. Some of tin- similar plants. 1,0. y CO or. U. re supplied trim) the borough pto.y c r-ho Use. 'l'li,- unrli of picking up and cunHi lt mg the broken c able over tier tlj.ihi iliver was niade very diUbult by Ibe high Hoods, but a novel ye.benu was evolved by the- Doroogh Electrica Engineer, Mr G. T. Wilson, which wlion put ic.tc eifect. i.vel'eame the ciiflicnity. The assistance of the rocket brigade called in. and by tin courtesy of the Timaru Harbour Hoard Captain .M* pniiga’.l. harbourmaster arompanii-1 by Mr J I'., .lac k-on. a, ex' | eriem-ed on nil, -r of the old rocket brigade, went out to the river tbit morninequipped v.illi rockets. rnpoi and all ibe necessary apparatus, Thi til's t rucked tired with a rope a i tit lied met with no success, lor the ro| f bloke and the rocket soared away out of sight. Tbc -cc .nil attempt. however. w;i, snece —till in getting a light line across il." ritcr. The copper cable was then alia bed to tbc lino and drawn :u mss. and the e ngineers were able to proceed with the repair work, it was hoped that Coleridge power would be restored late to-iiiglii or early to-morrow morning.

WIDOW'S CLAIM KAILS. NEW I'I.YMOUTH. Sept. Id. A ease of uicnv iliau Usual interest to farmers, involving the liability of one farmer for accidents occurring lo neighbouring farmers when they are helping him at harvest, time, was heard l.efnre the A ri.itral ion Court today when, arising nut of an accident at Low garth on March 12th. 1920, when a farmer. Robert. Goulden, Was killed 1,.v Icing struck on the head by a derrick of a hay lift. Empress Gouldon (widow of the deceased) sued Albert Thomas Burke, farmer. Lnwgarth. for :C7oo compensation. Plaintiff alleged that she and her two small children were entirely dependent on her late husband. On the day of bis death he had boon working for Burke as a labourer at ‘2s per hour. The defen e held that Goulden had not worked for Burke in the eapm-ity of a casual labourer, hut a- an independent farmer, working solely on his ow ii account. After bearing legal argument on the question whether deceased was or was not an employed workman, the Court gave judgment for defendant.