DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1926, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[ny TELEGHAFJT PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] DAIRY CONTROL. WELLINGTON, June 9. A supplementary gazette contains an .Ortler-in-Council announcing tha t notice of the Dairy Produce Control Board’s intention to assume absolute control shall be given either by service or publication in the newspapers, not less than sixty days before it becomes operative. Where notice is served on an owner of dairy produce or a person having possession thereof it shall be done through the medium of the registered post. EMPIRE SETTLEMENT. AUCKLAND, June 7. The Empire settlement scheme introduced by the Church of England Counleil lias been commenced, and the first party of English, public school hoys to be sent to New Zealand under the | scheme has arrived in Auckland. The members of the executive committee in Auckland headquarters for Now Zealand, hold out high hopes for the success of the movement, which is as yet in its infancy. The Committee is headed by the Primate, Archbishop A i frill. ’• The new arrivals range in age from fourteen to eighteen years, and all have been carefully selected for farm work. Positions have been found for the boys in various parts of the Auckland province from Opotiki in the South, to -Miitakohe in the north. The boys were selected from all parts of England and Wales. The scheme provides that a farmer undertakes to find employment for a hoy for a period of two years, and to pay him according to his ability. Subcommittees have been set up in Hawke’s Bay and Wellington, and these will inquire regularly into the progress of the hoys. A grant has lieen agreed to by the Imperial Government |to assist the council in its work. Boys will he sent to New Zealand at regular intervals, and a further twenty-five are expected to arrive at Auckland i* August or September. HOTEL BURNT. BLENHEIM, June 9. At one o’clock tin's morning the Junction Hotel at Spring Creek, an old wood building of fourteen rooms, was totally destroyed by lire. The licensee and two lodgers were in the kitchen getting supper and on returning to the sitting room discovered the place ablaze. They aroused the other occupants,who escaped in their night attire. Nothing was saved. The building was owned by Staples and Co., Wclliington. The insurances are unknown. The furniture was insured for £325 in the British Traders. Personal effects of the licensee were covered by £2OO and of the licensee's father Cl5O, both in the British and Mercantile Office. The stock was insured for Clod. The origin of the outbreak is unknown.

NEW WIRELESS RECORD. DUNEDIN, June 7

As .Miss Hell declares, it is must annoying v,lieu one cannot fulfil an engagement to have a talk with friends over 12.000 miles away. Last night the wireless enthusiast at Shag Valley tried to get in contact with England for an engagement fixed a week before, but for tlie first hall-hour the stations could not meet. At d p.m. she got into comm,unication with England, and for two hours she conversed over the air. Wireless communication with England is nil everyday affair and anybody with a reasonably decent set can speak to stations in the Old Country.” she said. -Miss Hell was pleased to-day that she had managed to have a long talk with her brother. Mr F. D. Bell, but she disparaged any suggestion of it being a feat. Still it will be a marvel to the layman that a long talk by wireless run lie made over land and sea round half the globe. Using a lot) watt input on .'135 metre wave length Miss Hell had spoken to G2OD, England, in the previous week, and had arranged that her brother, who has made wireless history for New Zealand should speak to her tor half an hour. Miss Hell’s endeavours to “meet ” were unsuccessful and she was annoyed that she could not keep the engagement. Hy a stroke ol fortune she tuned in Inter. She was communicating with Sydney when she “met” the Englishman with whom 02ZS was speaking to Tasmania, and he told .Miss Hell that her brother was awaiting at station G2N.M, in Surrey, where he was spending the week-end with the vice-president of the International Radio League. Using Morse -Miss Hell was delighted at her successful efforts to chat wit!: her brother, who gave the latest news of friends and doings. He mentioned that Miss Sargood, who injured her leg recently in Switzerland, was about again and a dance was to be given at her home to-night. .Miss Hell stated that telephones were difficult to use, particularly for long distance work, but she hoped to telephone to England at a- later date. Although two-way communication with England has been maintained before the conversation of two hours- is unprecedented. '.Hie previous record was for one hour and a-lmlf. Mr Hell’s name has been associated with wireless experiments in Now Zealand and his part in tlio latest success is very interesting. Conditions were perfect for the conversation and the talk was uninterrupted. AMUSEMENT PARK. AUCKLAND, June 9. The desirability of the principal features of the Amusement Park at tho exhibition being transferred to Auckland was discussed by the Harbour ’>ord, which has been asked to lease portion of its reclaimed land, east of King’s wharf as a site for a scenic railway other attractions. The applicants were the Amusement Park Syndicate and the Hoard was asked to lease a block of land with a street frontage on four sides having an area of 2, acres.

The Finance Committee recommended that the area he leased for five years >t .£2.000 a, year and that the syndicate be given the option to extend the lease for a further three years at £4,000 per year.

Mr Woodworth thought the Board should consider not only its own interests, hut also the effect of such an Amusement Park placed so close to the principal business section of the city, as it could not he anything but detrimental to business interests. Another aspect was that if the park remained for eight years it would mean that almost one generation of children would .grow up under the influence of this Amusement Park. This would not be good for them. The Chairman said the Park would come under the control of the municipal authorities. Tf the syndicate had decided to bring the attraction to Auckland and the. Board refused to lease the land, it would get a site elsewhere and the Board would lose the rovenu.

The Committee’s recommendation was adopted.

CHARGE OF SHOOTING. TAUMARANUI, June 9. At the Police Court before Justices, Ernest Charles Jebb. a farmer, was charged with discharging a shot gun at neighbours and with wounding them. Accused pleaded not guilty and was committed for trial. Bail was allowed in two sureties of £2OO.

MAN KNOCKED DOWN. WANGANUI, June '). A middle 'aged man, who is not yet identified, was knocked clown by a motor lorry in Glasgow Street extension early this morning. He was walking towards Springvalo and the lorry was coming towards the city. Ihe driver stooped to make some adjustment And when lie looked up he si w the pedestrian and it was too late to avoid an accident. The latter was rendered unconscious, liis arm being broken. He was liospitalled whore fie died shortly after admission. The lorrv vr.is well lighted. j WANGANUI, June 9. The victim, of tho motor fatality has been identified as Francis W illiam .Mitchell, (kb married, employed as a pantryman at the Imperial Hotel. JOCKEY INJURED. GISBORNE, June 9. A horse ridden by the jockey, P. Atkins collided with another whilst training. Atkins was thrown and his ribs wore broken. GISBORNE, Juno ). The Automobile Association are making proposals to the Highway Board for the institution of one way traffic at scheduled hours on sections of the Motuopotiki road to ensure the safety if the traffic.

TWO YEARS HARD LABOUR. NAPTER, JuneHerbert Gleesnn and Albert Gleeson were sentenced at tlie Supreme Court to two years hjird labour for arson at Ormondville. The sentences arc to bo concurrent with those inflicted recently at Wellington for theft. A three years reformative detention is to, follow. UNEMPLOYED. WELLINGTON, June 9.

Local members of Parliament waited on Hon J. G. Coates and Hon J. G. Anderson to discuss unemployment and possible relief measures. Mr P. Eraser said 298 men were registered with the Labour Department and 97 on the corporations books. The majority were labourers and the position was worse than for three years, but not as bad •is 1921-22. Mr MeKocn urged a better system of registration. He believed that unemployment was becoming a permanent condition. Mr Field saw a large amount of unemployment in bis district and endorsed Sir J. Luke’s suggestion that Tawa Elat deviation bo put in hand. lion J. G. Coates replied that Cabinet had this week agreed to reintruluce the legislation of 1922 empowerng local bodies to raise money without a poll of the ratepayers, to meet (be emergency and he undertook to call a meeting of representatives of Wellington organisations to co-ordinate the relief measures;