DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 October 1925, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

11l HV TEt.F.OHAt’H —rUKKS ASSN" , rtOFTRIOHI 111 1C (i PA PA TRAIN ACCIDENT. WELLINGTON, Met. 12. At the Opapa train accident inquiry ic to-day. Eugene Casey, inspecting en■r gimer in tbe maintenance branch ol "■ the Railway Depaid inenl, said Mr R. 1- S. Kent, inspected ihe Napier line last is month. Witness inspected the track r- near Opapa on the morning alter th<> il derailment of the train. South of Ihe t damaged portion of track hi’ found g sleepers and fastenings of rails, and k they weiy in a good condition. ]Te e saw nothing likely In cause an aceit ilent, and no -ign of any olisiruction - on or near the line. I v SOITII BRITISH INSURANCE COY. I AUCKLAND. Oct. HI. i The annua! report of the South Brii tisli Insurance Coy, states the total • profits for the year were £100.017. Of this amount £7n,000 has been added to the reserve fund, and (J I2n to .-inking fii ii • I of the lea-hold-, leaving £121.102 available. The directors reconitiieinl the payment of a dividend of Is LI per -hare, making a total distribiitiim of 2s HI for the year (£107.102) The balance from last year was £lll.3'H. making a total of £ 1 n7L3.il (<, be carried to the new account. BUILDING RETURNS. AUCKLAND. Oct. 12. Returns -bow that building lias I■ ii carried on with unabated vigour during thi- year. The total value of new buildings erected during tbe past nine mouths was over £2..T00.00(1. the expenditure in tbe lii-t nine months of 1021 being approximately £1.000.C00. .Moreover. I 1(2! new dwellings were creeled. No ai count ha- been taken of many new- lioii-es that have been built in outlying suburbs. where Auckland workerhave made their homes. and which may therefore lie regarded as pari of Grenier Auckland. Even taking the total ol new houses eoii-ervat ivoly at lottO. il will lie seen that these ill themselves would constitute a lair-sized low 11. The declared value of building eoii- • i ice in Auckland City itself I'm tile nine months elided September was £1.215.250. compared with £1.001.00.', for tho corresponding jeriod last year. This roprc-oiits a -at i-tnel m v iuI l ease oi !_’ I- it Lot *I. A RsENT FROM SCHOOL. PALMERSTON X.. (let. 12. Recently tbe Wanganui Education Hoard decided that action lie taken again-i parent- wbos,. children were absent from -e'nool in order to attend eompet it ions. The hi -t local prosecution was beard ibis morning, when tbe father of a girl attending the l.intoli School was proceeded against. The truant inspector .-aid that the child had attended the compel il ions at Wellington. I’.ilmiT-ioii North ami Christehiirclt. and had been absent Irom school mi (in occasion-.

Counsel for defendant said that I lie girl was not absent except on the occasions 11 n ■ 111 u»i it *d. It was the intent nm of the parents of I he girl, who had won tin- girl's elocutionary t liampioiisuin at Palmerston North, thin she should go in fur elm ut ion. The Magistrate; I stippesc Ihe Fdnca l ion Hoard is gelling tired nl these compel i t ions Counsel ; The parents Lave a right 1 > say ill it lint direction the child is going to he educated. The Magistrate: Mending a ■ hild round these competitions i- not a uucst imi of education. In imposing lira's ol •>s on each of two .charges the Magistrate said that if the father wanted Ins rritl to ho nv.Mv Iron) sclio-.1 t<> ntion« competitions he would have to gel leave for her to do so. SFDITKH'S I.ITER AT 1' HE. A I’CKI.A NIL Get. I'-L For the next: low months tint New Zealand Communist Parly will have to carry on without their president- and sccrctarv. both of whom were consigned to gaol hy Mr F. K. Hunt. S.M. this morning. the iormer. (Iswald Riittrhenti. being given six months, and the latter. Evan John Thomas, lour months, for having in their possession seditious literature. They pleaded that they did not know that the publications concerned were banned. It was suited that hot It were imprisoned for a similar offence in 192-1.