DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1925, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

BY TILEOIIAPH—I’KESS ABS.V., COPYRIOHX. CM ARM MS AM A INST AUCTIONEER. CIIRISTt II FRCII. Octoher 0. Allegations that all auctioneer had done hi- work negligently were made by defendant in the .Magistrate's Court yesterday when .lnscph William Hamlet. auetiimeer (Mr Cowan) idaimed troiu Filward Wilson. Madras Street. (Air Hrassinylon.), the .sum of Cl-j as eon .iileratinn lor erecting notice hoards, and advertising and preparing pari ietilars oii'erinjj eertaiu properties for sale. Del'emlant counter-ehiimed for the Mim ot c.‘!:i ils (til, alleging that the phiintiff, while agent, had done his work negligently and improperly. and falsely represented to the defendant that he had sold .'I houses. Judgment was given for plaintiff for do on the claim ami for defendant Wilson for L"!2 M tid. An assessment of costs showed i lint Hamlet had to pay Ills Til to Wilson. Cl I men ATTENDANCES. AUCKLAND. Oct. 11. A report on “The Leakage Ret ween School and Church” was presented l>y the Rev 1.. 11. Husfield In the Baptist Conference. Careful inquiry. he said. disclosed the fact that 80 per cent, of Sunday seheol pupils failed to reach church memhership. ami as 7 per cent, of elm roll membership came from the schools the loss v.as serious. An influx of 20 per cent, gave new life, hut; often merely masked the defect inn of 80 per cent. The I null was that only odd ones here and there wore being gathered in. Three main reasons for the leakage were: Indifference to the church by a large portion of the community. unfavourable contrast between the methods of teaching, and those of day schools, and increasing lacilitiers for pleasure on Sunday. A large number of remedies were proposed, including better premises, better o'luipmont and better teaching. ft was suggested that teachers should lie selected more carefully, and that- no teacher should he accepted who was mil prepared In put heart and mind into the task. The report concluded with an appeal to the church to pul the Sunday school in its proper place and not to regard it as a side-line. POSTAL OFFICER CHARGED. ('IIRTSTCIirRCir. Oct. 12. At the .Magistrate’s Conrr. Unngiora. to-day John Teporia Martin Piki was remanded on hail on a charge, that on or about December 10th. 102-1. at Nelson, being a postal officer, he did •steal the sum oi £7 2s, the properly of t lie Post urn-ter-Meneral. INFANTILE PARALYSES CASKS. CIIRISTCIIFRCII. (tel. 12. I wo -n.speeled ease- n| infantile parn-l.v-i' .i girl aged Id. from Chet ml. ■i ml a Imy aged on,, year inmi It n . ai. mu. ale under nh-ervat mn at the ( llri-1 ellutell [fo-pilal LOST IN AVALANCIIK. TI M A It F. 0,-toiler 12. 'llirnugh an avalanche at Mi. Cook, the Ball llni. 1 1 * 111 ■ 1 1 ■ i• 11 mile.- from the llermitage. Ini- been swept away. This hut was at a height of ii. 102 feet. It wa : - built by the (Government in |~PI on the site of the l’ev. Green’;, tilth

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