DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 March 1926, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

[BY TF.hEGKAPn —PER PKE93 ASSOCIATION.] UNKNOWN MAN KILLED. NAPIER, .March 5. , An unknown man, aged about -10 f years, was run over ami killed at , Whakatu by the seven o’clock Hastings to Napier train this evening. I MU IS ITT ATTACKS THE PRESS. DUNEDIN. March ,3. | At the Methodist Conference, the Hon. 1.. M. lsitt, M.L.U.. spiritedly afhrmed the conference’s full support of the Prohibition movement, remarking that Methodists bail ever been in the front rank of temperance reformers. •'H is unfortunate.” proceeded Mr lsitt. "that people have to rely on the newspapers for information concerning Prohibition. You talk about the high honour and the position of the New Zealand Press. Well, not long ago a leading editor said to me. 'lo-thiy .journalism is dead; tile time is come when we have to write a- advertisers dictate.' The Press is tied hand and loot to advertisers, let a lot of people still I lake their opinion I rout the nev.'sj papers.” I 111- declared that it: trying to do I away with the drink trallie they were I Irving to wrest away the very [sowers j hell. This was no time for comI premise. They must go right through I lvlll, It. and many opinions were eliang- ! ino towards their way of it, notably mliat of the medical fraternity, which i was w holly behind them now. j ••There are a few half-baked clerics ! vim have sat at the feet of Armstrong, j who is really the mouthpiece ol Hie liquor party.” he said. "It is hardly possible to conceive a more degrading picture than that of a leader of the churili sitting at the loot ol that man. ami taking instruction trom him. UI'LK SYSTEM KOI! PETROL, j WEI.I I NATOS', March 5. I An idea of the amount of capital ■ invested in the change over Irian the ;! t j,, system to the system of bulk siipI plv lor benzine was given by the eliaiij mini. (Mr A. .1. I iiogood) at the hail- | yearly meeting of the North Island ; j Motor Union to-day. He quoted itg- | tires, which, lie said lie llmught weie 1 j ijuite sound. Ij The amount ol capital involved was ■ • no less than £*2.<K'KU!OO. and £2s;>.oG<> , j a | niK . U ;is 1 ,-v*inir sjiciit in tin* instal- ! Int inn of kerbside pumps. Hi her i changes were the erection of hulk stor- ' | age 'tanks, coastal tankers. railway ’ ; tank mi's, tank waggon-. delivery |»•• ij • thi* const nipi imi «•! privaii* railfj w : i,y ‘sidings, pip*- liu-s and pump houses. 11l the pic.-ent stuck- and plani- ' the sum ol t1.5t:».C00 "as represented. , t'nils when th. change ov.w was com- ' | plot;.. ti,<- mill! invested capita! would ” I to- more than doable what- »as toll •~, e-i

\ I ATM. ENDING. GISBORNE. March 0. lunirus sustained hy Mole* N'ept‘. a .Maoris who was enisled bv n motorear at liuatoria oil Sunday last restilttd latally. Nepe was cranking up while the gears of the -nr were engaged and ii ran forward noshing him : over a hank and landing on top ol him. EIR.ES AT GERALDINE. TIMARU. March (i. Eire this morning rompletoly gulled the main stores of the Canterbury ! Farmers' t'o-operaliv*- Association at j Cera Id i lie. The lire broke out in the ! drapery deparltneut and rapidly spread through the other departments, only a j small quantity ol groceries being sal- | The maehinerv depart ini-nl and I grain -tore- ndiniiiing were saved. The building was ju-ured with the I Sou,!, British Coy lor LV'r.s.'tn. j ( II RISTCIiriK 11. Mar-h d. ! )*'.:• ii'v iH*- jitluniiMMi ;i motor j ;.t ( icra I* liin * ..w ikh! l*y 11. W W;.«l. , : \v;i> tit!.)!!' «!: Nlr»»\c<! I»y lirr. I'ii * 1 hii.iailr iunuM! <iut. hut litt!<’ couM lu' ■ (loin* ouiivj, to t,iu* in (la imiia Mt‘ naluro of lhr coiiiontx. 'I lu* plant was inI surfd lor > and tin* lm.i!dir..r lor Lino. .-TKAMKirs !?or(;i! VDVACK. Al ( K LAND. .March V. . Tin* steamer llarthold arrived Ironi Nauru to-dav after a nrotracird vov ol Inin tecu days. Sin* v. as delay cd I* v heavy winds mill M*a<. ANiu-u sin* ari’ix’cd she loul only ion ton* m j coal in Llic liunkcrs. («cm*ral Tt»m. (IriHitlis, Ailmini-1 rator uf the inland, was a passiourcj-. il - lines nn to Wellington and Sydney, lie stated that everythin;! i-* noint; well ai tin* Maud. |

IiODY IN 11A If I >i*i F I!. IM NFDIN. .March ii. A hody. identified a' that oi Ivina id Tiehetier. a traveller, missing holt week, was found in the Harbour this morning. FFICIDF AT CIIIiiSTCTirUCH. C lIIMSTCiiriH 11. March 11. Archibald Xinmiu Watson, aged If!, ol Sitliiuor. committed sttioide by rutting Ids i.hroat while at; inmate of the hospital last night. I.ATFIt. Archibald Xinmio W’al.sOit. aged I'd. a married man. formerly in business til Sunnier, died in the Lewisham Hospital tills morning. lb' had been in the hospital as a patient. The night nurse t'otmd him with his throat out and with incisions in arms and legs. llv Ins side was a safety razor blade and a note staling: "Gone oil' mind. Goim mail. Forgive." An inquest was opened, but was adjourned after evidence of identification. MAN FOrXD SHOT. OT'XHLXX. March 7. A married, man, named James Ferguson, aged lid. living at Musselburgh, was found shot through the head at his home this morning. He was taken to the hospital dangerously ill. KOTA l! Y C'OXFKIi HXCK. 0I NI':DIN. .March li. The Rotary Conference has chosen Mr Meter Harr, of Dunedin, as Go-vernor-elect. The Conference presented a piece of plate to Tiotarian George Fowlds in recognition of his services to Rotary.