DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 January 1927, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

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CHARITABLE AID. AUCKLAND, January 19. The Chairman of Auckland Hospital Board stated last night nearly two hundred persons in Auckland were receiving charitable aid. In nine months the hoard had spent twenty thousand pounds in relief or €IOO more than in tin- same period in the previous finaneial year. .Men applying for relief were decent, hard working men, and could not get work. If that was the position now he asked what is it going to be next winter. If giving relief to the. unemployed was to be considered the duty of hospital hoards the latter should have some say in the question of bringing immigrants to the Dominion. Cabinet had authorised half of the Board’s claim for reimbursement of the amount spent on unemployed relief. The Board resolved to accept and press for payment of the balance on the Prime Minister's return.

HEAVY CHARGES. DUNEDIN, January If). Charges, involving, according to the. police about C2OOO, will be preferred against George Thomson Swann, who has been brought from South Australia to answer them. In the Police Court this morning he was charged with obtaining .€ 180 from Margaret Gibson, with intent to defraud, by falsely representing he was supplying an exhibition Coy with machinery, and that complainant would share the profits. Chief Detective Cameron, said there would he six charges, involving 112,000. Accused was remanded till 28th January on hail of €SOO.

JOINERY WORKS HJIRXT. A CCK BAND. January 10. The joinery works of J. R. Simpson at Greenlane railway station with contents were totally destroyed by lire at .'1 o’clock this morning. They were insured in the South British for €ISOO.

SECOND -MAX GIVES HLM.SKLE CP AUCKLAND. January TO.

Brewer, the second escapee from the Hamilton police cells, was located ill a patch of scrub near Henderson this evening by Constable Smith. As soon as Brewer saw the constable, lie gave himself up, and showed no opposition. He was brought on to Auckland.

RECORD RUSSELL CATCH. AUCKLAND. January 19. A report from Russell states that yesterday, off Cape Brett. Mr K. B. Lewis, of England, caught a world’s record mako shark, weighing 5771b5, with a rod and line, after a 90 minutes' light. ’flic last Bussell record catch was one of 02511.5, TEACHERS’ SUMMER SCHOOL. INVERCARGILL, January T 9. The Third Summer School under the auspices of the Southland Branch of the Education Institute, the originators of the movement in the Dominion, opened auspiciously Lillis afternoon at Stewart Island. Over a hundred teachers have enrolled, and all parts of New Zealand are represented. The Director of the School is Dr J. Lawson (Professor of Education at the University of Otago). Mr T. R. Fleming (late Senior Inspector of Schools) will lecture oil English literature and history. The nature study lectures are in the hands of Air William Martin (Headmaster of the Mosgiel District High School). Mr L. G. Wntkiu (Art Master at Wellington Training College! will deal with drawing in relation to school work. Health problems will be discussed by Mr Malcolm Professor of Pylisiology at the University of Otago).

FERTILIZER PRICES. WELLINGTON. January 19

With reference to the Press Association message appearing in yesterday morning's paper, announcing a reduction in the price of fertilisers in Auckland, inquiries made in Wellington indicate that the reduced prices mentioned (viz., 11-1(1 per cent, super. Cl 17s fid ; basic super C-l Ids, and Nauru phosphate Cl 10s, all net cash on trucks) will apply to the whole of the North Island, and that railage will be charged to the farmer as from the nearest works at Auckland. Wanganui, or New Plymouth. These reductions have been made by all the fertiliser manufacturers of the North Island. As the result of a recent merger by the New Zealand Co-op. Dairy Co., Ltd., with__ Wright, Stephenson and Co., lor the acquisition of the latter company's Otahulm works, it is understood that tno suppliers of the New Zealand Dairy Coy. Ltd. will get a rebate on the above prices. This substantial reduction in the North Island prices of fertilisers foreshadows early and substantial reductions in. the South Island.

MAIN TRUNK EXPRESS DELAYED. AUCKLAND, January Mb

Banning about three-quarters of an hour late, the Daylight Limited Express last evening struck a mob of four horses when just clear of Drury Railway Station. Two of the horses were killed. The train suffered no damage. After it was seen that th* line was clear, the journey was resumed. The train experienced a delay at Pokeno station, when it was held up by a goods train for about an hour. Subsequent stoppages were occasioned at level crossings on the route, and the train arrived at Auckland almost -'an hour behind the scheduled time. WORKER INJURED. -HAMILTON, Jan. 17. Charles White, a lnbonrer, aged ”8. was admitted to the AVaikato Hospital suffering front injuries to his side and chest through failing on a pickaxe while working «tt Arapuni. OTFT OF BOOKS. WELLINGTON, Jan. lib A. valuable gift, between 500 and CIO volumes, chiefly reference has been made to the Dominion Observatory, through the good offices of l)r Connie, an ex-Auckland student now Deputy Superintendent of the British Almanac Office, London. « UNEMPLOYMENT. AUCKLAND, January 19. The following protest against the closing down of the State sawmills at Mainnku has been sent to the Minister by the Auckland Labour Members or Parliament —" In view of the serious unemployment problem already existing, and of the fact that the State sawmill must have a steady effect on timber prices, as well as doing its share towards supplying the market, whic-h is taking some of its supplies front American sources, we desire to record our protest aginst the handing over of the New Zealand market to timber companies overseas, while our own men are seeking employment. A conservative estimate of the unemployed in Auckland at present is about 1000 and we trust that the Government will move in this matter immediately.”