DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 March 1927, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

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ODDFELLOWS’ ( ON FERENC E DANNEYfRKE, .March 11

The Hawke’s Bay district conference of the 1.0.0. F. Alancliostcr unity at Tikokiao discussed the question of hospital lees chained lodge patients. It was decided that, the Board <d' Directors he requested to take in hand the inauguration of a Dominion hospital scheme, and the Minister ol Health, in conjunction with the executive officers and other societies to he approached to ascertain the best terms which can. lie obtained for flat rate lor hospital treatment of members ol friendly societies, their wives and children under the age of sixteen.

A. AXD P. PROTEST. DAM A HP. March 12. At a meeting of the North Otago A. and P. Association the following motion was curried unauimouslt ■ “That this meeting draws the attention of the Prime Minister to the fact that primary producers are iti an impossible position owing to the continued increases in wages granted hy the Arbitration Court. We consider the Court is 'idmiuistrated on wrong lines, when the cost of living is the base of all its awards and no account is taken as to the employers ability to pay.

M ISS INC WOM AN LOCATED. ASHBURTON. March 12. Mrs Edward Darson who u'ts reported missing since February 21 has been located at Wellington staying with her sistei. YOUNG .MAN’S THEFTS. P A EMERSION X. March 12. At the Police Court this morning. Robert Rollngson Simpson, a young mail, was charged with the theft ol »■ cheque book and other articles, and also with' forging a cheque for £l2. He pleaded guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court at Wellington for sentence. Tre cheque book, etc., was the property of Ernest John Halford, tif.veller, of Gisborne, who with his family in January last, encamped at lie Esplanade, Palmerston North. AVltile they were absent, the accused entered the tenL and stole the propci t\ mentioned, later forging the cheque and uttering the same to Air AAaugh. a local tailor, in payment of an account. [t was alien the accused was arrested on another charge that the. stolen property was loliiul oil him. On two other charges of theft at Feilding and Palmerston North, accused was sent to gaol for a mouth.

DEATH IN DANCLROOAI . AVHANGAREI. March 12

A very sad affair happened at Tmraroa. near AVhangarei. last night, when Mr Alfred John McCullough suddenly expired at a “Gilt Evening"' Miss May Wool house, who wtis to be married to the deceased’s second .inn next Wednesday. The deceased w.ts in his usual health, and he engaged a partner in a dance. After promenading the hull once, he shook hands with two friends and suddenly expired. A doctor was called, and pronounced death from heart failure. Deceased leaves ,i wife, three sons and one daughter. (sTOKM IN CENTRAL OTAGO. DC NED IN. March 12. A thunderstorm, with torrential rain, struck Central Otago last night, creating a washout on the railway near Clyde, also making the fruitgrowers’ road impassable. HOME FOR ARB FT it ATI OX CO CRT. AY KLLIXG2OX. March 13. Tenders are being called for the erection of a two storeyed brick and concrete building behind the present Supremo Court buildings, adjoining the Court buildings to provide a permanent Wellington home for the Arbitration Court. It is understood (ho building will form the nucleus for a further extension of buildings in connection with tlie block. Tbo Arbiti'ition Court lias had no stated homo since its institution. DIPHTHERIA OUTBREAK. AUCKLAND. March 13. Fourteen children attending the Papa toloe Primary School have been attacked with diphtheria. The Health Department, however, does not consider the situation serious.