DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 July 1926, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

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INFLUENZA. DUNEDIN, July 24. Ono death from pneumonic influenza to-day. No further cases reported. CHURCH HALL FIRE. AUCKLAND, July 25. Fire considerably damaged St. Mark’s Church hall at the comer of Remuora and St. Mark’s Roads. The R emu ora and Parnell Brigades turned out and found that the blaze had started at the back of tho hall. The stage, ceiling, scenery and stage fittings were badly damaged before the brigade had the blaze under control. The hall is insured for £4,000 in the New Zealand Insurance Coy and the contents for £225 in the same office. The cause of the fire is unknown. A CYOUST KILLED. FEILDING, July 24.

Alfred Kreegher, a single man, aged 27, died this morning as the result of a collision with ail Oroua County Council metal lorry last night in Kimbolton Road. Kreegher was cycling along the road with the lorry coming behind. A car coining in the opposite direction had brilliant lights which temporarily blinded McKlroy, the driver of the lorry, who did not see the cyclist. When picked up, Kreegher was at once hurried to Palmerston North Hospital, but died a few hours later. DAMAGES AWARDED. AUCKLAND, July 24. A claim for £2OO and general damages was made before Mr Hunt, S.M., by Harry It. Parker, against the Northern Roller Milling Coy., for injuries sustained by tho plaintiff when he lell from tho roof while working for defendants over tho head of a steam boiler. In escaping from a thick cloud of steam, his leg, arm, and. some small bones in the wrist were broken.

Plaintiff mas awarded £2OO, less £52 received from tho insurance company.

FINE HOSPITAL WARD. AUCKLAND, July 25. The handsome new block, known as the Wallace Warus„,at the Auckland Hospital, was opened by tho Minister of Health, the Hon. G. A. Young, this afternoon. The new block and its equipment is a revelation in modern hospital architecture and furnishings. During his recent visit to New Zealand, Dr Malcolm McEachern, tho noted American authority on hospitals administration, said that nowhere in the world was there a finer hospital building.

INFLUENZA. AUCKLAND, July 24. To date, this month, ninety cases of pneumonic influenza have been reported in tho Auckland district. Eight now cases have been reported during tho last twenty-four hours, but there have been no deaths for the last fortyeight hours. AUCKLAND, July 25. Eight more cases of pneumonic influenza were reported on Saturday, five of them being in the city, and one each at Newmarket, Tuafeui, and Otorohanga.

SERIES OF ROBBERIES. PALMERSTON N., July 24

John Tabu Andrews, a Maori youth, aged sixteen, was charged at the Magistrate’s Court with tho theft of articles from a dwelling near Shannon, and also with six charges of theft between July 6th and July 21st at Kilbirnie, Minimal", Levin and Buckley. I n conjunction with a youth who v as dealt with in tho Children’s Court, tho accused was charged with stealing property and cash wt Kilbirnie, Lyall Bay, Woodville and Carterton. Accused pleaded guilty. Senior-Sergeant O’Grady said the accused had been an inmate-of Weraroa Farm for some time. W ith the othci boy mentioned, on July 6th he escaped from the farm, and had been arrested at Woodville on July Bth. During tfieir brief period of liberty, they committed many thefts. Stowing away on a train, they had proceeded to Wellington, aml had then gone on to Carterton, and later to Woodville. They were taken back to Weraroa. but they escaped again on July 20th, again starting off on a career of crime. Both were out of the control of the Weraroa authorities, and were a menace to the settlers in tho district. Tho accused was sent to the Borstal Institute at Invercargill for three voars.

FARMING IN CANADA. _ WELLINGTON, July 23. Tho difficulties under which Canadian farmers have to conduct operations were stressed by Mr W. J. Poison, president of the New Zealand Farmers Union, who has returned from a journey abroad to examine into the method's of rural emits. They were carrying on dairying on land which m m<dwiiitor suffered from a temperature minus rOdeg, which was equal to 100 degrees of frost- vet, were able to send a large quantity of dairy produce abroad. Canadian farmers had to Lve _ a far harder life than in New Zealand Canada was making a good bid abroad for the people of Europe, and had immigration agents in many places. Fanners in the United States were .suifering from over-production. British farmers were having a difficult time. They complained of reduced incomes and the difficulty of making both ends meet, They were apparently lacking in co-operative enterprise,