DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 June 1926, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

'.nv Tci.i:on.uui mat press association',j AN INFIRM IMMIGRANT. WELLINGTON. June 22. Remanded from Friday last to enable 1 lie Customs Department to ascertain whether the Immigration Restriction Act provided for an immigrant Horn overseas to be prohibited, on the groin a i oi infirmity. William Joseph Lo.' d Saddler, aged r>J yea is. appeared ai the it I agist rate's Court to-day. He was charged with being a prohibited immigrant, in tlmi lie was infirm, and lin'd landed in New Zealand. “ This man was remanded to to-day to see if be could not be held for seme oilier reason than (hat of being a prohibited immigrant.’’ said Air J. O. J. Alalfroy, who appeared for Boyd. " I submit that lie is not a prohibited immigrant, but lias simply been certified as infirm. The Port Health Authorities have tried to hold him for being a prohibited immigrant, but under the Immigration Restriction Act. he cannot be deemed prohibited. I would ask for tlie information to be, dismissed.” Air AlacLaurin. Collector of Customs, added that he could find no reason for holding Boyd. 'flic information was accordingly dismissed.

OPPONENTS OP DAIRY CONTROL. WELLINGTON, June 22. 'flic views of tlie New Zealand Free .Marketing League on tlie subject of Dairy Control were placed before tlie Prime Minister and the Minister of Agriculture, Air Hawken, to-day. The discussion was taken in private. CHARGED WITH FRAUD. CHRISTCHURCH, June 22. A police allegation that she purchased three coats and charged them to another woman’s account led to the appearance of Margaret Durkin, a married woman, in the Magistrate’s Court, charged with incurring a liability of C2l to J. Ballantyne and Co., and obtained credit by fraud. It was stated she purchased three coats and charged them to the account of one of the firm’s customers and later sold them to a second hand dealer. Accused was committed for trial. OHTNEAIURI HOTELS RESTORED. WBTJLINGTON. Junto 22. Official information lias been received bv Air Percy Coyle, Dominion President of tlie Licensed Victuallers’ Association, that tlie Ohinemun Licensing Committee have granted ton licenses for that District as the result of Restoration having been carried. Four of these licenses are situated in Pneroa, four in Waihi one in Waikine, one in Kerepuhi and one in Hauraki Plains. Licenses previously existed at Ai’aihi, Paeroa and Waikine, but Kerepuhi is a lieV district whose requirements will be served with a licensed house. When no license was carried in 1908, there were sixteer licenses in the Ohinemuri district.

AAIEXDED BUS REGULATION. WELLINGTON, June 22. The Gazette to-night announces that the A To tor Omnibus Regulations have been amended by revoking Regulation Ten, and substituting one to the effect

that the bus fares between the places served by trams shall not be letss than twopence above the train fares. A bus may adopt a concession or other special ticket system, but the fare shall always he twopence more than the tram fare. Where the bus services serves places not served by trams, the fare shall be not less than the tram fare for a corresponding journey. If a bus proprietor considers that the fare for a particular journey should not be j more than that fixed for the trams, he is to refer the matter to the Transport Appeal Board.

PARCEL OF RADIUM. AUCKLAND, June 22. Delivery of a parcel of radium weighing SCO milligrams, and the value of which is estimated at £4,600 has been taken by the Auckland Hospital Beard, and. as soon, as Dr Neil MeDougall, tbo Board’s radium, specialist, returns from Australia, patients requiring treatment will be able to receive it at the hospital, instead of

being under the necessity of going to the Christchurch Hospital, which hitherto has taken all such Auckland cases. The precious therapeutic agent came to Auckland by registered parcel post, in a small lead-lilted wooden box, four inches in length and two and a-half I m.lies deep. The radium cannot he seen lor it is divided into doses of I varying strength, in containers of silver, gold and platinum, and an alloy of platinum and copper. The division of the parcel thus makes the radium more easily available according to the class of ease to be treated. The Radium Beige Coy., of Brussels. tin Anglo-Belgian concern, which has a virtual monopoly of the world output of radium, from its mines in J Central Africa, was the consignor of J the package, which was addressed to Hue Hospital Board, care of the Bank of New Zealand, Auckland. The radium forwarded is the whole of the Board’s order.