DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 November 1925, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

[by TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

A PROPOSED ELIGHT. WELI.IXOTOX, November 25. An effort is about to he made to raise funds for the purchase ol an aeroplane and cover the incidental expenses of the trans-Tasman flight contemplated by Flight-Lieutenant .T. R. Moncrieff and Vidor Carmine. The Mayor of Wellington. Mr Xorwood. fas consented to allow his room to he used for a meeting of those interested in the project who are willing to assist ill the campaign to raise the necessary money, estimated at about £BSOO. Invitations are being issued to prominent men in various centres ol the Dominion to meet, and it L hoped to set up committees in the tour principal towns to canvass lor lands. The Mayor has expressed his personal interest in the daring undertaking of the two Xew Zealanders, who are keen to be the iirsi to bridge by air the gap between Xew Zealand and Australia. "1 appreciate the great interest that would he taken, particu-1 larlv by young Xew Zealanders, in this Might." remark’s the Mayor, in a letter to Mr Carmine, "and also the national importance of the undertuk-

The secretary of the .Xew Zealand Sports Protection League lias expressed his readiness to assist the project. The organisers of the flight have approached Air .Service officials in regard to the proposed flight and Captain T. AT. Wilkes has recommended a number of machines which are considered suitable for use. All are living boats, and being of Drilish manufacture, can he imported into Xew Zealand duty free.

ILLEGAL USE OK CAR. WELLINGTON. X'ov. XT

“The unlawful use of motor-cars nowadays is a serious menace to the motoring public, and I would ask that this man be taught a lesson," said Chief-Detective Kemp at the .Magistrate’s Court this morning, when Arthur Doyle, alias George .Jones, alias George Jones Doyle, a motor-driver pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawfully converting to his own use a motorcar valued at £-100, the properly of the Xew Zealand Government. "On Saturday morning last," said the Chief Detective, "accused asked permission from the authorities at the Public Works garage tit Pipitea Point, where he was employed to take the car out. hut was refused three times.

Later in the day lie gained entrance through a skylight, and look the car. Nothing further was seen of the vehicle until Monday morning, when the vehicle was found outside the garage, damaged to the extent of £fi. The Department asks that, as there as otlicl valuable cars in the garage, the accused should he given a lesson, as an example to others." Mr E. Page, S.AL: What is known of him!’'

The Chief Detective: lie lias a formidable list of convictions lor tin'll and wilful and obscene exposure. Mr Page: The accused will be sentenced to one month's imprisonment, and ordered to make good the damage to the car. STORM IN CANTERBURY. CM RLSTCH CRCTI. X'ov. 20. .Canterbury is experiencing rough weather. After a few heavy showers (luring tin 1 night, the weather broke line tiiis morning, but at about midday a thunderstorm was experienced, and heavy rain fell. This soon ceased, blit the 'weather broke again at four o’clock and became bitterly cold. Rain and bail poured down, and snow covered the Cashmere and Peninsula Hills. As shearing is fairly general throughout the province, the change "ill be rough on the newly-shorn flocks. At ML Thomas. during to-day's storm, a W’olliiiglonia tree SO teel high, with a girth of 'id leet at the base, wits struck by lightning, and ii was split in top to bottom, and absolutely torn to pieces. Large splinteis weir lntrled in .'ill directions. Some pieces were picked up I 10 feet away. At Oxford, live telephone poles were shattered, and several chains of fencing was destroyed. Twelve ( bains ol telephone wire vanished complelelv. in one house a telephone was damaged and the side wall was blackened. Hail and snow to a depth of three inches covered the ground. Though tit" rain was required throughout Canterbury, it could have done without such a wildly visitation. The temporal tire in Christchurch at o p.ni. was AS degrees.

DISMISSAL OF NURSES

for late not'hs

\Y FLIJXGTOX. Nov. -JO. Tko 1 fospilitl Bonn! dismissed at considerable length tin- case of the six vouiiji hospital nurses "ho were dismissed lor a broach of discipline in returning i<> the Nurses’ Home aftoi luiurs. The nurses arrived back Into. Instead of report in v late and ontoi - ii,o the building in flic usual wa.v. thev clindied lire escape ladders, and jr„t to their respective ~uarters m Unit

Some memlicrs of the Hoard thought the Nurses had keen too severely punished for what was desenhed as indiscretion. . One member of the Board said that some of the trirl- had boon dmihmm This was denied by the -Medical Superintendent. . . . A motion to rescind the original motion dismissing File girls was defeated hv S to fi. . The Board said there was nothing lo prevent the dismissed nurses Horn applyi nit for re-appointment. I lie\ would he considered on their men Is. DUNEDIN MOTOB ACC TDI'.N rs. DUNEDIN. Xov. 27.

Yesterday afternoon John Hollows, a taxi driver, alone in a new Jewett car rail over an embankment- near Abbotsford station and was hospitnlled in an unconscious condition. The car turned three somersaults, landing on the railway track.

At Milton on Tuesday a motor car collided with an electric light pole and crashed through a fence. Gilbert Burnett (Mount Stuart) lost an eye and other injuries, while Leonard Matson, (Dunedin) suffered from general shook. VICTORIA DRAGUK. DUNEDIN. November 25. The Victoria League Conference was concluded at Dunedin to-day. It was decided that the next conference should he held in Christchurch. A small committee was set up to consider the Question of holding the conference annually instead of bieanniallv.

On the motion of Mrs Tripp it was decided that the present system of nominating emigrants be revised in favour of the following :—“ That if

satisfactory particulars of situations requiring educated women workers are supplied to the Immigration Officer. Wellington, he will permit the New Settlers’ Committee of the A ictorian League to cable open nominations at week-end rates, the girls to be selected by the Society for the Overseas Settlement of British Women and approved of at the High Commissioner’s Office, this being deemed sufficient to secure assisted passages to New Zealand.” YD- Thomson. TTider-Secretary for Immigration, assured the league that the Department would assist it in every way and suggested the group system of nominations.