DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 September 1926, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. TWO SUICIDES. INVERCARGILL. Sept. 14. William Pope, married, a farmer residing at Grovobnsh, shot himself through the forehead this morning, death being almost instantaneous. He leaves a widow and a young family. Henry Hamilton. 70, a casual tally clerk, visited the Bluff Railway Station at nine this morning and asked to bo allowed to go into his room. An explosion was heard and it. was found he had shot himself through the head with a Remington Ride. Death was instantaneous. VICTORIA LEAGUE FUNCTION. AUCKLAND. September 14. The Victoria League entertained Lady Cecil and Miss Al. Cecil at all at home at Ellcrslie Racecourse tea kiosk and presented the former with a bouquet of New Zealand native flowers and the latter with a posy of spring (lowers. Lady Cecil expressed immense admiration for the work of the New Zealand branch of the Victoria League, the Girls’ Friendly Society and the Y.W.C.A. As Vice-Chairman of the Overseas Settlement of British Women, she said this body was now working closely in touch with the British Government and questions relating to the policy and procedure were constantly referred to it. Good health was the first essential in the choice of women emigrants, but latterly it was thought advisable that some tests in the rudiments of cookery and housework should ho made. The Women’s Institute and Church Council were ably assisting in the work of emigration. Sir James Allen said that the Home Office was greatly in favour of sending a girl where her brothers had emigrated to the Dominion. CAR OVERTURNS. AUCKLAND, September 14. W. If. Dunn, of Auckland, and party were motoring to Alercer when their large car left the narrow road and fell into the river, pinning the occupants underneath. Dunn and Stewart finally got out of the car in water six feet deep, and extricated his wife and two sons. Alls J. G. Cooper and her infant son. All have practically recovered from the wetting and slight injuries, though the younger of the hoys is not very well.

CHARGE OF ASSAULT. CURISTCTIURCII, September 11. Victor Slater, aged twenty, was sentenced to two months’ gaol by Alagistrnte A’oung, on a charge of assaulting Richard John Alnrtin. The evidence showed that there had been trouble over a courtship. The Alagistratc said: “The father took the proper attitude and it was within his rights to prevent defendant from associating with a girl until slio was twenty-one. lie had a had record.

SHAREBROKER SUICIDES. AUCKLAND. September 11. Mussel Garland, a member of Auckland 'Stock Exchange, shot himself in his office at ten this morning. Ho left a note addressed to his auditor, the details of i\ ;,, irh arc not disclosed, lie had been in business as a sharebroker for some years, had war service with the rank of captain, and was A.D.C. to Lord Liverpool.

A COLLEGE ENQUIRY. AUCKLAND, September M. An inquiry arising from allegations made in Parliament concerning matters connected with Seddon Memorial Technical College, Auckland, opened to-dav and was adjourned to September 28th. The commission is directed to inquire into allegations of a Inge percentage of failures in public examinations, preference by the principal to friends in making appointments, the victimisation of certain instructors, also the management and control of the staff by the Board of Managers and the Principal, the relationship' of the staff to one another and to the Hoard and Principal. JUSTICE FRAZER ATTACKED. NAPIER, Sept. 14. Tho Waterside Workers Union has passed a resolution asking the Government to withdraw .Justice Frazer from the bench of tho Arbitiution Court, on the grounds of his partiality.

CONCILIATION BOARD. AUCKLAND, Sept. 14

An agreement was reached before tho Conciliation Board, oil the wages and conditions of in front of the house theatre employees includingi:m increase in pay and improve conditions particularly for female workers. SOLDIERS GRAVES. AUCKLAND. Sept. 14. Miss Statbam (inspector of soldiers graves) states that eleven hundred headstones have keen erected over soldiers graves in the North Island alone, and others lire being erected every week. At present she says, wo are occupied with war graves only, that is of men who died from injuries received at the war or from its eiI’ects.