DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 January 1926, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

(by telegraph—per press association.]

THROWN FROM CAR. AUCKLAND, Jan. 20. A collision oceurod between a motorcar and a motor-lorry at the corner of Edendale road and Burnley terrace. Miss V. Shanks, a. passenger by the car, was thrown from her seat to the roadway ami received a compound fracture of the skull. Her condition is serious. NURSING HOME CLOSED. ASHBURTON, Jan. 20. A private nursing home was closed last- week by order of the Medical Officer of Health for North Canterbury. The Health outhorities decline to give the name of the hospital or the reason for the closing. SMART PASSAGES. WELLINGTON, January 20. During the last week or so some very smart passages have been made on the Wellington-Pieton run. On January 21 Hie Tamaliine mado the trip across from Picton in two hours fifty-four minutes, an average speed of 18.2 knots. Last Friday (Anniversary Day), the Waliine made the run across from Wellington in 2 hours 50 minutes, maintaining a speed of 21.2 snots. On the return journey the same lay the Waliine cut out the distance in l hours 27 minutes, from “ ahead ” .o “ stop,” giving her an average speed of 21.(i knots, and setting a now ecord for the run.

lIIS WEDDING DAY. DUNEDIN, January 25. “He was to be married to-day,” counsel said of Henry Savage, a diminutive immigrant, charged at the Dunedin Police Court. “ I joined the Salvation Army and it was only through meeting a man in the street who bad a bottle of whisky that T did this,” confessed Henry, whom drunkenness and breaches of prohibition and maintenance orders led before the Magistrate instead of a minister. “Does the bride know his record?” inquired Mr IT. AV. Brindle, S.M. “ Yos.” replied counsel, “ and also other things T told her.” “ Von had better stick to Hie Salvation Army,” advised the Magistrate, mercifully substituting now orders of twelve months each for the mutilated ones. “I am much obliged, sir” replied the fallen penitent, finding lie bad dodged gaol as narrowlv as lie missed matrimony.

PAKEHA LAAV. AUCKLAND, January 25. The removal of a Native woman, suspected of suffering from an infectious disease to the AA’aihi Hospital from the AVhangamala district, was carried out !>v District Health Inspector Marlindale, and Constable Dnlzctli, of AATiihi, under most trying circumstances. The woman had to he taken by force, owing to violent opposition by her mother, who, it is stated, attacked the constable in a vigorous manner.

The visitors found the house doors locked, and relatives -dated that the visitors would no| get in. A door was then forced open. AVhilo the constable hold the infuriated mother, who fought like a wild animal, kicking and biting (lie officer, the patient was removed from, the bouse. The mother invited the constable to kill her, adding that if the Pakclip.s look her daughter to hospital they would certainly die.

Tlie patient was taken to a launch, hut owing to. the heavy sea the party was compelled to remain all night in AVhangamaln. The launch proceeded in sea nexl morning, and arrived safely a i Bowcntiiwii. where the put knit was met by the Waihi ambulance., and ihen removed in the hospital. The prejudice of tlie- Natives, and their action in opposing the removal of the woman, is said to have been caused hv Toliunga influence.

FIVE-DAY WEEK. ABANDONED AUCKLAND, January 25.

hi accordance with the decision of the employers, clothing factories in Auckland will work a six-day week of forty-four hours from February 1. During the past few years a number of factories have boon working a five-day week, dosing from Friday evening until Monday morning. As the Factories Act limits the daily hours of work for female workers to eight and a quarter, weekly hours have been limited to forty-one and a quarter. The five-day week was introduced in the first place as a war measure, and has been confinued in a number of factories by mutual agreement between employers and employees. Owing to (he efforts of the Employee’s ITiion in recent Arbitration Court proceedings to have the five-day week embodied in clothing trade awards the employers have unanimously decided to work a. six-day week of forty-four hours as a counter move. MOTOR-CAR THEFT. OHRLSTCT! (TIiCTT, .January 2(5. Captured in Hereford Street, at about half past nine, oil Monday night, after an exciting chase, Harold Hogwood. described as a clerk, aged IS years, appeared at the Magistrate's Court to-day. He admitted having converted to his own use a motor-car belonging to Augustus Philip Delacotir, hut lie denied having stolen the

'car of Robert AV. AVatson. Having pleaded not guilty to the second charge, he was committed to the Supreme Court for trial, while ho was remanded till the Supreme Court case was disposed of on the other charge. Bail was refused.

LIFE SAVING COMPETITION

NAPIER, Jan. 26,

The annual life-saving competition for the Nelson Shield was held off the Marine Parade to-day, and an interesting contest resulted in Marauui (AA’ellington) annexing the shield from the holders (Lyall Bay) by the narrow margin of two points.

The positions of the competing teams were: Maranui 165 points, Lyall Bay 163, Canterbury 147, Castleclift (AVanganui) 144, Taranaki 143, Hawke’s Bay 122. AVOOLSTON TANNERIES. WELLINGTON, Jan. 26. At to-day’s meeting of the AVoolstoii Tanneries’ Commission, Mr Myers made a plea that the company did not ask to lie reimbursed with the whole of their losses. A suggestion would lie made that the whole of the profits of the company should be averaged as from the date they commenced business in 1921. They should he charged income tax and should receive a refund of .any sums paid in excess of those amounts plus interest. They should he compensated to the extent of £35,000. He wanted to make it clear that they were not going back on anything previously offered. Sir John Hosking said he would leave tlie definite figures out of the altogether at the present stage.

Sir J. Findlay raised a point of law. He said that it seemed part of the Company’s claim was based on a new ground altogether, that there was inducement on the part of the Board of Trade for the Company to carry on.

Mr Myers said the whole case rested on that question. The point was raised during the giving of evidence before a committee of the House. The Commissioner said that he would not give a separate ruling on the point, and leave it to the Government to deal with.

Cecil M. OUivier, chairman of the Board of AVoolston Tanneries, confirmed Ihe .statements which he had mado in evidence before the committee of the House. "Witness produced a letter written by him to Dr Henkes in January, 1917, in which lie intimated that A. Sims and A. Cooper were directors of the Company. The letter further I min ted out that the Government regulations -would compel the closing of the pelt department if they became Government suppliers. Tlie AVoolston Tanneries did not receive an invitation to attend any of the conferences of lellmongers, which were 1 icing held.

LORD ALLENBY. ARRIVAL AT AUCKLAND. AUCKLAND. January 26. The Ulimaroa. which was at first exm'ctcd to arrive to-night, will not arrive until early to-morrow morning. Tn conseqnonce. the programme for Field Marshal Lord Allcnby’s visit has been revised. The civic reception will be accorded at noon. During their few hours’ stay in Auckland, Lord and T,nd\ Allenliy will be the guests of the Governor-General, (sir Charles I'ergusson. at Government House. The Auckland Hebrew Congregation aiul the Auckland Zionist Society have expressed a wish to pay their respects to Lord Allonhv. as liberator of Balesline. li has therefore been arranged ibai a small deputation from both bodies and from the committee which was responsible for establishing the first infant welfare centre in Palestine on the No.w Zealand system, shall wait upon him at Government House in the course of the day.

l ord and Lady Allenby, who are spending nniv a limited time in New Zealand, will leave for AA’cllington by train to-morrow night. They are to re I urn to Auckland on February loth, and will sail next day for Vancouver.

SERIOUS OFFENCE. ' AUCKLAND, January 20. In the Pol ire Court, Nathan Morris, nged 2,‘!. was charged with committing rape on a. woman aged 71. Tn asking for a remand until January 28th ■Sen-ior-Sergeant TTammond said the ease was a most unusual one. Morris was a steward on the Amerinn freighter West TTenshaw. wliile the victim, an old ladv, was in the last stages of senile decay. A remand was granted. Bail was not allowed. CT-TTLR DIES TN COT. CORONER’S HIRER. AUCKLAND. January 25.

At Ihe inquest on the nine months old daughter of Mrs* Duncan McLaren, who was found dead suspended hv the neck in the bars of a cot. Mr J. AY. Poynton. S.M., found the fatality was purely accidental, and added a rider that cots should be built making it impossible for the small child to crawl through the bars.FATAL FATA- FROM TRAM. CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 26. The death occurred in the Hospital to-day of William Leitze, aged fiftysix years, an employee of the Phoenix Insurance Company, who resided at River Road, New Brighton. He fell la.-t night at about 9.45 o’clock from r tramear, which was entering New Brighton, and received very severe injuries to the head. ELDERLY MAN DROWNED. INVERCARGILL. Jan. 20. The body of an old man, John Moloney, aged 80 years, was found in the Waihopai River this afternoon. Moloney resided with his daughter-in-law in South Invercargill. He had been missing since Monday morning. The. police searched all that night without success. The deceased Had been in the habit of goitig off by himself. An inquest will lx l held.