DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 May 1926, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

[by TELEGRAPH —PEE PRESS ASSOCIATION."] AVEATHER CONDITION. AUCKLAND, Alay 22. Rain ceased and the sun was shining at mid-day. No more landslips are reported on railway lines, and it is expected that all services "ill be hack to normal on Alonday, while ahead) there is an extension of services on the Ivaipara line. Quick repair work and the linking up of supplies, will give the city four million gallons daily from to-morrow. This, without waste, should enable the consumers to carry on until the complete water supply is restorecT AUCKLAND, Alay 23. Heavy rain fell again during last night and this morning. The weather cleared this afternoon, but the outlook is still somewhat uncertain. Owing to the interrupted telephone communication ,tlie exact position regarding tho water supply repair work in the ranges are lacking, hut it is understood that during last night there was another break in the Waitakere pipe line. Supplies are being drawn in the meantime from the western springs, and water is also coming through the broken end ol the Niliotupu pipeline from Quinn’s Creek. Alany parts of Auckland are still without water, and a ileet of twenty water wagons is kept busy distributing supplies in tlio city. As the western springs supply is suspect, householders have been warned by the Health Officer to boil all the water before using it. Eight inches of rain fell between Tuesday morning and yesterday morning. The railway service on the northern line to-morrow should be nearly normal. There are no reports of any further damage from the country.

CHRISTCHURCH, Alay 23

In common with other parts of New Zealand, Canterbury lias been suffering bad weather. Thick and driving, but not heavy, rain from the northeast began on Thursday, and since then the skies have never been clear for an instant, nor has tho rain completely cleared. Last night the direction of the wind changed to southwest, and the skies became darker, and the rain heavier. Ships arriving report very heavy' southerly weather. -MORE IAIAIIGRANTS ARRIVE. AUCKLAND, Alay 22. Tlio 781 immigrants who arrived by tlio Aljahaiia, are largely from Scotland and the North of Ireland, with a big proportion from the midlands, whole family parties being a feature of the new arrivals. SERIOUS CHARGES. AUCKLAND, Alay 22. Five charges of breaches of the Act in relation to maternity cases were preferred against Airs E. J. Full-erton-AVhyte, lieensse of the “AVillesden” Private Hospital in the Police Court, before AH F. Iv. Hunt, S.AL, to-day. Defendant wns charged with, that having attended a case of notifiable sepsis, she visited another maternity patient without obtaining the sanction of the Health Officer. She was also charged with that, as licensee of a Alaternity Hospital, she permitted a patient, AHs Leonora Hamilton, to occupy' a room with another patient exhibiting signs of morbidity; and that, as licensee, she permitted AHs Hamilton to use equipment which had not, been disinfected. The remaining charges were that, on two occasions, temperature charts were not kept. The case was adjourned until Thursday.

AIOTOR AIISHAPS. ATAR.TON, Alay 22. A peculiar accident occurred on Thursday "oil a steep hill near Turakina, when a three seater car, driven by (a man named Robertson, skidded and went over a bank. The forepart of the vehicle was suspended in midair by a fence, while the occupants clambered out and regained tbe loadwav. Tlio ear was (afterwards lifted back practically undamaged. There was a drop of forty feet on the other side of the fence. A Sedan car driven by Afr G. Tables, of Wanganui, left the roadway' on Gower’s Hill, and careered along the bank until it stuck. AH Tables, assisted by tbe other occupant, and tv.o men. pushed the car back to the road, when they wore amazed to see it gatli? or speed and crash down a gully on the other side of the roadway. None was injured, but the vehicle was severely damaged. FOUND DROWNED. AUCKLAND, Alay 23. The body of A. AV. Johnson, a marine engineer, was found floating in the harbour at ton o’clock this morning. The deceased had been living at AVhnngarei for some months past. He was a widower with one child. SUPREME COURT. A WELLINGTON, Alay 24. Justie Reed delivered judgment in a ease wherein Antonia Mazzola, a market gardener, sued Turnbull and Jones Limited, for damages for injuries received in a collision between a notor car and Ids express. In giving decision for the defendants, the Judge held that the driving of a motor car was not a necessary act in connection with the employee’s (Oldham) work as a fitter for the defendants company, nor was it incidental to the duty of travelling to and from work, when the mode of travelling had been prescribed fend provided for.