DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 April 1926, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

[by TELEORArn PER PRESS ASSOCIATION/ TYY r O BURGLARS CAUGHT, r. AUCKLAND. April 28. Georgo Welch, aged 26, and Reginald Clarence AY’atson, aged 10, captured by Detectives Nelson and Street at j eight o’clock last night, are now in custody on a charge of breaking and entering tho counting house of the Fletcher Construction Coy. with the intent to commit a crime. The night watchman saw tow men, one. working on a door, and the other apparently keeping a look-out. He telephoned tho detective office, and four detectives responded. One arrested AY’elch, and another captured Watson, after a chase. Four holes had been bored in the door, near the Yale lock. One of the men had in his pocket a length of Fuse, and a hack saw. Gelignite and a chisel wore found on an embankment nearby. Between midnight on Monday and early on Tuesday morning, a burglar or burglars removed. goods valued at two hundred pounds from B. A. Hughe’s clothing and mercery store

on. Dominion road. They effected an entry by the front door, after having sawed off large padlocks. HUNTLY TROUBLE. AUCKLAND, April 28. A dispute at the Glen Afton collieries, affecting three hundred employees. has reached a deadlock. The miners refused to resume work until the directors wont to Glen Afton to discuss tho points at issue, namely the employment as miners of two men who had been employed on outside work for the last eighteen months, tho Union contending that the men cm. ployed in tho mine must he drawn from the truckers.

Another ground of objection is the employment of two men who had only recently arrived in the country, when there were members of the Union at Ifuntlv available.

The Aline Manager replied to-day that, under no circumstances, would the Directors wist Glen Afton to discuss the matter until work was resumed.

The Miners’ Secretary later rejoined that tho men could not resume until tho matter was discussed. There the matter stands. Mr P. Hally, the Conciliation Commissioner left to-night for Glen Afton in connection with the dispute.

ENGINEERS’ DOATTNION AWARD. WELLINGTON, April 28. The Dominion Engineers’ Award provides that work done between 6 a.m. and ordinary starting time, shall he paid at time and a-half, hut no earlier start is provided for. Tost questions relating to men who started at 1 .am. and 5 a.m. and worked on through the. day, were put beforo the Court for fixing a rate for such cases. Justice Frazer fixed tho rate at double time to ordinary commencing time, land thereafter ordinary rates.

PAI*ANCI AEROPLANE SAIASII. CHRISTCHURCH, April 28. An inquiry in to the aeroplane disaster at Pnpanui on March 17th last was to have been commenced this week, as it was believed Uiciil. Turner, who survived the crash with severe injury, would lie discharged from tho hospital and bei strong enough to give evidence. To-day it was learned from the police that Turner’s condition was still weak. He is in a highly nervous state, and the inquiry has been postponed. Probably it will he .held in about ten days, when it is hoped Turner will he quite fit. FRIENDLY' SOCTETIES’ HOSPITAL BEDS. BLENHEIM, April 28. Hon. AH Y oung, Minister of Health, arrived at Blenheim this evening, and met a. deputation from the Alarlborough Friendly Societies’ Council, urging the establishment of a system of hospital beds for members ai concessionary rates. The Minister made a sympathetic reply, and promised his approval of any fair, reasonable contract entered into with the Hospital Board. To-morrow the Minister will formally open a now nurses’ home at Wainiu Hospital, then going by car to Nelson. INTO LIQUIDATION. BLEXHEAI, April 28. Alarlborough Farmers Co-operative Alotors, Ltd.—a big Blenheim concern with branches at Havelock, Nelson, and Seddnn—lias gone into voluntary liqmlation. This step has been necessitated by losses incurred during the slump in 1919-21. It is anticipated that the Company’s assets will realise more than sufficient to pay the creditors 20s in the £, and the only losers will he the shareholders in the concern, whose claims will come after all other liabilities have been met in full. The Chairman of Directors is \\ -L

tilling. AI R. 110 presided to-day. and in interim balance sheet was placed ltd ore the meeting, showing that the

normal capital was £.>0,000, in 50.600 £1 shares, and the subscribed capital £13,906, of which £4.227 10s remains to lie called up. The book assets were shown as £32.000, including the uncalled capital, and the liabilities are estimated as rather under £32.009.

The Chairman, Air Girling, said the irincipal reason for the directors’ re■ommetidatiou that, tho company he

ound up was its liabilities, incurred

during the years of the slump, which were eating tip all profits in interest charges, and there was no reasonable possibility of recouping these losses, although last year’s turnover was no less than £50.000. FORGERY CHARGES. TE AWAAIUTU, April 28. Pearl Beihler pleaded guilty to charges of forgery and false pretences in connection with a cheque uttered to a Te Awamutu tradesman on April 17th. Her companion, William Johnson, pleaded not guilty to similar charges. Both were committed to the Supreme Court.

A HARD CASE. CHRISTCHURCH. April 28. A month’s imprisonment was imposed on a septuagenarian, Christina Lauson, a former inmate of Mt. Magdala Home for Women, making her 198tli conviction. She admitted non -compliance with her probation term. She had been ordered to Mt. Magdala Home, but had left it, and refused to go to a home. She told the Magistrate she would not go back to Alt. Magdala, where she said tho younger women fought, obliging the elder inmates to take the part of the Nuns who conduct the home at times. She admitted drinking too much at times, but said she had not had a chance. She was ordered this time a month in gaol,