DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1925, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

[BY TELEGHiPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] i'iUK AT ROTORUA. OCCUPANTS’ XARKOW FSCAPF. ROTORI'A, September 21. Cast )iil l l a two-storied combined dwelling, store and garage adjoining were com|iletely destroyed by fire. The building was owned .M. Hoard and occupied by if null Wallace Craig. The tire was discovered at 2.T0 a.in. when there was a - bowline westerly gale blowing. 'l'lie flames cut off t lie staircase and ( rain, his wife and six small children got through a window on to file roof and were only cot off just as the (lames burst through. A fireman named liranch was severely scorched about the wrists. A three thousand volt wire passes the store, but the electric staff cut off the current. The telephone, telegraph and power wires were burned t brunch. A fi re-sea ter Siudebaker ear was de~ troved. d’here win no insurance on the stock. The store was instiled for ClbO in the Mercantile Office. TFRRfFIC II t'Rli ICAXE. GISHOR.NF, September 2-1. Tiic mate of the scow Will Watch, states that in his thirty-five years experience a: sea. lie hits never -een surii a hurricane a- that which raced off d'okomaru Hay yesterday. The vessel and crew had a gruelling test. '-'TABLE. AND HORSE DESTROYED. WAN'GAXUI. September 2L Harold llayiier’s stable at Waverley was coiiinletelv destroyed by lire. At Ihe time of Ihe outbreak there were three horses in the stable. Fverv effort was made to save the animals, hut the lire gained so rapidly that the two-year-old, Acreage, was destroyed. The other two were pot out with great difficulty. one horse being severely burned, hut it is honed he will he saved, d lie insurance on the building was TWO. h.ut the horse was uninsured.

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WELLINGTON, September 21

A conference convened by the kmpile Development Committee, Welling ton Chamber of Commerce, and repre-

sentatives of various urbanisations, interested in immigration, opened to-day the object being to urge a progressive policv to secure a sufficient number ol immigrants from the 1 nitod Kinpdnin each vear.

Mr A. 1,. Hunt, who presided, described Hu' conference as most importtint. as indicaliup that the laggard Dominions were moving at last. Detenco and mipraliou were hound up together, and the defence of Australia and New Zealand were similarlv one problem. Australia had already taken up miprafion, hut Xew Zealand had been content to jog alonp. dhe amount expended in Hritain in doles was sufficient, to transport the whole unemployment population around the plohe. Xew Zealand had no! done its duly to the Mother Country in rqgard in migrafinn, though Hritain hy offering her best as emigrants. and otherwise, had done everyl hinp possiole. 1 lmrouph organisation was needed. History hau shown that private enterprise had played a part in the buildinp of the I'.mpiiv. He believed it could do it upain. I'lidcr a scieniilic system New Zealand could absorb bO.Oflll People per annum, and bidore lonp they could work up lo ldd.OdP. In llie past eiph. or ten years, neith.er i’a i lia meiit imr the Press had adequately dealt with migration. Xew Zealand might slip-

gesl that Britain buy second class land, and send out emigrants to regenerate the land. He also suggested making an iuventorv of the needs ol l lie i arioiis trades in the Dominion.

ABSUOXDIN’G CLERK ARRESTED ( lilt IST! IlLRC!!. September 21.

\Yord has been received hy the police of tile arrest in Sydney of Albeit Thompson. lormeiTy a clerk employed by l he X“W Zealand Farmers’ Co-op. Association, on a charge oi tliolt ol moneys, the property of the Company. Thompson disappeared some weeks ago from his employ men i. being one of Cm slalf of the grain branch of the eoin-

pane's business. Detective :• rt:;<•:!:iI End" will leave i< i r Sydney His evening to bring Thompson liark In ('hri-tc hurcli. wlier<‘ he will bo tried on

tin- charge

AWE El. MOTOR TRACEDV, PA f.-M KtiSTl >X X.. Septoinlier p

The body of Leonard AVithor>. aged live •■■oars, youngest victim of t ln* illoior accident nt Bnngiotu between Eoxtoil ami Pel mors ton on Atygust IS. was recovered in the Miminviiin River yesterday morning, two miles above the Shannon 1 tridoe. It will Im recalled that a liartv consisting of the father (at the u heel}, the mother, ami two lines, need 12 ami o, were returning fnmi a visit to the Anvricaii Fleet, when the ear broke through a rail al the entraneo to a hriilge over the Urmia River. ami 101 l into the deep water helnw, only Mr Withers osonping, am] the others being imprisoned in tlw eiirtainei] ear and drowned, MAXSEArfUITER CHARGE. AEOKLAND, September 21. As a soi|itel to an aeeident on l\n- | rnngnhnpe Road. on May 17. 102-I, ■ when Mrs Kate Doweling was knocked down liv a motor ear, and died the ; same evening, the driver of the ear, a young Iml aged 17, whose name was sup" ' pressed, was charged to-day with manslaughter. The ease has boon delayed ' owing to the fart that shortly after • tile aeeident, the aeeused v.ont to A us- ' India and only recently returned. He was eommiued lo the Supreme Court i lor trial. Charges of driving a ear without a Incuse, failing lo slop and give iiis name and address, and of nog- ■ ligetit driving were adjourned until alter the Supreme Court Trial. J CHILD SCALDED TO DEATH, I.

( HUISTCIintCH. September 21. At the inquest into the death «if .Marjorie Kathleen Halligan. the fourteen months old daughter of Mr If. Halligan, the mother said -lie was preparing a hot hath on Monday for one of the children, and went into the scullery. When she came hack she found that the child had upset the water and was lying in it. The child was attended by a doctor, hut died this morning. A verdict was returned that the deceased died from shock arising from having been accidentally scalded. !