DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1925, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

BY TELEGBAPB FSESS AOB.N' , OOPTEIOHT SERIES OF BURGLARIES. • PALMERSTON* X., Oct. 13. A “crime wavelet” has swept over Palmerston North, four petty burglaries having been committed and three valueless chetpies issued within a week. A marauder gained admittance to the Girls’ High. School and to a small dairy in another part of the town about a week ago. A residence near the school was (Mile red on .Saturday, the intiudet eluding chase by the occupier. On Wednesday last the pavilion of the Afanawatu Bowling Club was entered and ransacked. During the same period a young man presented three valueless cheques! hut in only two instances were they accepted and change given. V PRIEST’S DEATH. STRATFORD. Oct. MB The Rev. Father Maples, parish pi-ic-l for thirteen years and formerly ~f Pctoiie, Bower llutt. died litis mornin,, awed eighlv-onc. He was educated arhtnihridgd and lho Brampton Oratory and was ordained priest in 18P-’ he'the late Cardinal Manning, arriving in New Zealand twenty-seven years ago.

C\R PUNTERS' DIM l 1 Jb. AY EBBING TON. Oet. 15. The Conciliation Council in AVellingt,,ii to-day further considered the Dominion dispute created I>y the Carpenters’ and Joiners’ Society with a view to securing a Dominion award. Practically the whole of the general provision- of the. old award were agreed to. hut the general provision in respect of ship work was amended to provide that overtime, should commence after eight hours’ work on an ordinary day and after four hours' work on Saturday, instead of after -M hoars a week had lieen worked. T 1 was decided that 00 exemptions should tie allowed to private employers, firms or companies.

After discussion the decision on the question of hours was held over. 011 overtime and holidays, the society's representative agreed to the clauses of the ohl award, with the exception that the question of payment for holidays should he referred to the conrL. Tito preference clause was also referred lo the court. Christchurch employers said the difficulty in Christ eh 11 roll was that equal preference to the Canterbury Carpenters’ Union was not- agreed to. The Commissioner: The host .solution would he for the hvo unions to amalgamate and he brothers as they ought io he. AVATM ANA’S MEAT. NOT INJURED BY FLOOD TNG. AUCKLAND. Oet. 13. On discharge of between 11,0(X> and 12.000 carcases of frozen beef and mutton from No. I hold of the steamer Waimana to-day it was found that, no damage had been done lo the meat bv the partial Hooding of the hold caused by (he bursting of a water pipe. K is anliepated (hat- the vessel will l.e able to leave for New York. Boston and London .Monday. The water penelraied into the hold through a. leakage occurring in Ihe filling pipe lending to the fresh water lanks past tilt' 'tween decks of No. 1 hold where about 12.000 carcases were slowed. By this evening the hold was practically cleared. It was found tbal a'.ent sivle.'o niches of wafer had acriimiilatcd in one purl and about two inches in the rest, of the hold, but as the temperature in the ’tween docks

wn* .‘it! degrees below zero (ho water had frozen around Hie lower I'.'irf.iso.-. whi'-h won l con seep lent I v -aved from. ■ I.!111:>vr*• They were broken away from ilio four inohos oC dunnage forming a trucks In tlio Auckland breezing Company's Mures.

Repairs |o ilif. defective pipe will ho carried mil In-morrow. ;inr] (ho carcases ,o, i!1.

AI!It A \(l K.M KNTS I’PSKT. Kl’l'KfT Ob’ Sill I’Ll XT «TIUKK. \\ KI.I.IXOTt )\. October lA. lii addition to other evils it brought in its nuke, t In- maritime strike* lias caused serious disorganisation of l.!io I ininiii n m's i nimigra i ion ami ugoments lor i In* next lew months. Ailviee lias hoi'ii received locally that, on areoiinl ol the shipping trouble, there probably will lie fewer than 0(H) berths availahlo lor Oovcrnincnl-assisted migrants prepared 111 leave the Old Country for Xew Zaeland during November and Doeomlier. instead, of the li'lOO hortlis for wliieli provision previously had lieen made. Kfforts were made in secure extra -lii p- In replace those that had lieen delayed. Out met with no success, eonsetpiently the postponement. of November and December sailings will eatise congestion. and render shipments for .lanuary, February and March oi next year rather heavy. It is estimated that Ihe dislocation brought ahoni by the seamen’s action will be responsible for a congest ion of about 1(10 immigrants at I lonic.

“This is a very serious state n| affair-." observed an official to-day, “and it will he diflieuli to calculate when a return canin' made to the normal timetable. Nominators will under-tand whv their expectations cannot he ittl till.. I.” The in ';: i niitingeni of tlew settleri- due in arrive by the Corinthie or Thursday next, there being Ti!l assisted immigrants on buard the ves-el. Their destinations are as follow: Auckland. .'to men. lo women, .'Hi children: Xew Plvmnnth, II men. (i women, i-liildein. : (dshorne, :! men, (i women: Napier. 1 man. I women : Wellington, yi; m en. II women. 1 I children: Pieton 1 man : (Ireymoulli. - women. •’! cliildren : Lyttelton. I men. (! women: Timaru. 7 men. S women. (1 children : Oainp.ru. 1 woman: Dunedin. 0 men. VJ women. 2 children: Bluff. 3 men. 3 women, o children. Totals—TO men. l:Vi women. 7(i children. Tneluded in the number are nine public school hoys, foriv-tvn domestic servants, and fittvthree bovs for tin- Salvation .Army.