DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 May 1926, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

, [by TELEGRAPH PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. ALL BLACK SUSPENDED. AVATROA, May 19. George Nepia (AH Black) and rwi other senior players were suspended ; for one playing Saturday for tbrent j_ filing behaviour last week in a rough game at Nuhaka. REA DM ASTERS CONFER. n AVELLINGTON, May 10. j At a. meeting of headmasters it was - decided to amalgamate the various j I Headmasters’ Association of New Zeaj land into one federated body with headquarters at Auckland for this year. ' Air Hall, of Gladstone School. Mount Albert, was elected the first president. 0 THE UNEMPLOYED. 0 AVELLINGTON, .May 19. 2 At a meeting of local bodies, m re- ~ ply to a deputation which asked that any Council should make the same provsiion for local unemployed, the Mayor ® said there would be no shirking of their responsibility ,by city authorities. At the same time he held the unemployment problem was a national, not local one. He was waiting for information from the Prime Minister as to what • the Council could, do and was expected to do. In thanking the Mayor for his reception of the deputation Mr Semple said the problem was likely to grow more acute every day. -Some six hundred immigrants had arrived on ATonday and their presence in the city was likely to make competition for work

keener than ever. TAUPO FISHING. AUCKLAND, May 17. “ I ha •e fished in many places—indeed, my rod case has been twice round the world—but 1 can honestly say the fishing l had at Taupo this year is the host I have ever known,” said Mr S. McCulloch, a Melbourne angler who returned to Auckland lately after six eventful weeks in pursuit of trout. As Mr McCullough was one of a party of seven who landed 9S fish in one day, his opinion is evidently well founded. This is liis third season at Taupo, and he considers the fishing is becoming better and better. Asked if he could suggest anything that might he done for the comfort and convenience of anglers, -Mr MeCullouch said it would be a good tiling if the roads could lie improved, and some of the more difficult streams bridged, especially those between Tokaanu and Taupo. It seemed to him that it would be of great benefit to the fishing if a hatchery could he established on or near the lake, so that young trout could ho reared in the waters which were to he their future home. It should he possible to establish a “stud” and import fish from various localities in New Zealand and overseas. Fresh blood would lie most advantageous to the present strain.

So far as cost was concerned, visiting anglers would not mind higher license fees, seeing that the fishing, at is best,was very much better than anything that could he obtained in Great Britain or over a large part of North America, at many times the price. Scottish salmon fishing was let at very high rates, and the best streams in the Eastern United States were accessible only to millionaires. Me recognised, of course, that the local angler, who had always been used to inexpensive sport, might justifiably take another point of view.

DEATH FROM BURNING. PALMERSTON N., May 19,

At the inquest of Daphne Grelle Doughty, aged 4, daughter of a Kimboltou farmer, who died in the hospital on May 9th., from shook, following extensive burns, the Coroner returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence that the child put a piece of paper in The kitchen fire, and when it, burned her fingers, she dropped it on the hearth, her night-dress catching alight, inflicting the fatal burns.