DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 June 1926, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

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AUCKLAND, June 2. Afc the annual meeting of the City Licensing Committee there was great interest on account of two applications for new licenses instead of that held by Thames Hotel now demolished. The applicants- are T. M. O’Connor, the prospective licensee for G. C. Glecson, manager of the Ambassador on the Waterfront and John Bray, owner of prospective . boardinghouse, Shortland Street. Since the Ambassador was refused a license by the former Committee, it has been made a modern hotel of 2j bed rooms with luxurious appointment. (Proceeding.) CRIMINAL’S BIGAMY.

AUCKLAND, May 31. Arthur Julius Theodore Winter Branstcad, aged 53, pleaded guilty in the Polite Court to bigamy, and was committed for sentence. He married Tvy Lowe in June, 1919 under the name of Arthur Winter. They lived together until 1921. Ho was previously married in May, 1913, to Lucy Hayes, who, he alleged, deserted him soon after the ceremony. He had been in prison, doing a sentence of 12 months, and had been declared an habitual criminal. When ho came out of prison lie was told that his first wife had died during the epidemic of 1918, but lie did not trouble to cnfpiire as to the accuracy of tlu? slatemen f.

UNEMPLOYMENT. CHRISTCHURCH. Juno 3. Speaking at. a. complimentary social tendered to Mr M. E. Lyons, defeated candidate for the Lyttelton electorate. (To Hon A. ]>. McLeod touched on the unemployment question. Mr McLeod did not think that conditions were any worse than they were at this time in

the last two or throe years. The cry had been made for political purposes. Tt was a. strong statement; but he made it. There was unemployment and) the Government was making every effort to deal with the cases of unemployment. Tf it were possible for a working man to keen his wife and two two children on £1 a week, then a, single man on the same money, should ho able to save 30s a week. Young men out of work must he prepared to go to to hack country, where'the- Government would Iry to find them work. AUCKLAND, June. 1. Since yesterday 7(13 men signed on the unemployed list, in addition to 150 on the hooks of the Amalgamated

ooeiCL-v or mi "moors. A meeting of l!u> Unemployed Executive resolved to nsk too Prime Minister to legislate to allow local bodies to borrow for urgent works, similar to 1022. A telegram from Mr Contes intimated that AO men would bo employed at Orakei and 50 at Bombay. trade war. Christchurch. jv.no 2. M'hii. is claimed to be a move in I Ibo Trade War is iho action of the j North Canterbury Timber Alorehanis’ Assoeialion in issuing a revised price

lisf, which represents ;i drop in rales nf a hunt 12} per rent, for the princip:il ,lasses of timber used in house construction. Tt is claimed that the nou" riles will mean a reduction in the cost of a standard sized bungalow of about £25. MOTOR ni'S REGULATIONS. TI MART’, June 2. At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce to-night, a. motion was carried strongly protesting against the new bus regulations, on tbe ground that they are unduly lmrsh and calculated to eliminate private enterprise to the dertiment of public welfare. Tt was decided to ask the Government to delay bringing the regulations into operation until they havo been considered by Parliament. LEVEL CROSSING SMASH. AUCKLAND, Juno 2. A level crossing accident occurred at tbe Church Road Crossing, near Onehunga, early this evening, when ,u motor lorry was smashed to matchwood by a train proceeding from Auckland to Otabubu. Tlio driver of the lorry, William Sheppard, aged 26, escaped while tlio other occupant, T. Horn, received 'abrasions about tlio head and hands. The train caught the roar part of the lorry, and the impact swung it several feet away from the line. One of the rear wheels was completely torn olf, as also w'ns ilm hood over Iho driver’s seat. A peculiar feature of the accident was that the men had just brought a woman to the Auckland Hospital, and were returning home when the 'accident, occurred. SECOND BODY RECOVERED. ROTORUA, June 2. The body of Aligns Douglas was recovered about noon to-clav. An inquset was formally bold at Ngongotalia and adjourned. QUARRY WORKERS’ AWARD. CHRISTCHURCH, June 3. Quarry workers in Canterbury are to receive an increase in wages of one penny per hour under their new Award which lias just been issued by the Arbitration Court. The following shall be the minimum rates of wages for workers engaged in quarry work : fa) Workers employed in quarrying stone, getting out pitchers, building stone, kerbstone, and paving stone, ready for masons, shall be paid 2s per hour. (b) Certified men using explosives, and men barring down after a. shot, where the quarry fare is 20ft in (height. Is llld per liour. (e) Men using explosives where the quarry face is less than 20ft in-height,' Is lid per hour. fcl) All other workers Is lOd per hour. UNEMPLOYEDS’ DEMANDS. WELLINGTON, June 3. A meeting of about 2500 unemployed yesterday adopted tbe following resolutions : (1) This meeting of unemployed workers of Wellington, is of the opinion that the inward flow of immigration should cease whilst the problem of unemployment remains unsolved, and that the Labour and the Trade Union movement should mAke the position clear in the Old Country. (2) That we unemployed workers of Wellington register our emphatic protest against the threatening and dictatorial attitude of the Prime Minister, in reference to employing men at less than trade union rates of pay and call on organised labour to support us in this direction and assist us in what is essentially a working class fight.