DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 March 1927, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

| [iiY TELEGRAPH—PER PRESS ASSOCIATION'.] FREEZING TROUBLE. HASTINGS, .March 18. I Free labourers are carrying on at • Wiiak'atu. Everything is working . .smoothly. I ‘ CROQUET. DANNEV IRKE. .March 18. The eliiiMipiou.sliip croquet tournament, which j lils |,Q(.|, in progress for some dais r, ucluded this morning, the winners - (I in nip ion ship doubles : Alesdau. '.irvie i Wanganui) and Vincent ’ ..berston) beat Mesdames King and feast (Carterton). 2ii to 22; ladies’ championship singles: Airs Jarvie; rumier-up. Air., Cronin (Oha-: kune). .Southern Hawke’s Lay Champion ship. Airs Jarvie (Wanganui); runnerup. Airs Cronin. AERIAL SURVEY. WELLINGTON, Alarch 17. A man made from the first photographic survey carried out in New Zealand has just been completed, and establishes beyond all question that the work dan l.e done in the Dominion and that the results are likely to be very valuable. The survey was made by a special nhotgraplier taken up by Wigra.in Aerodrome pilots and using a quarter-plate camera, ami the area was the State Forest Sendee’s old and new plantations about llaumer. The township itself appeals in a corner of the map, and the big tract of country between tbo I’ereival River and the llaumer Riviq- has been photographed and laid on. a large detailed map This is still the rough stage and will need retouching to remove traces of the many spots where the plates overlap and distract the eye from details of the country, but once this is done tim Forestrv Department will be in possession of very valuable information. The Department is highly pleased with the work anil hopes to obtain surveys of other State forest areas, and also of native bush lands, at a lulu re date.

In the present map there are ,two breaks, but these arc considered to lie unimportant, and the general level of the work, it is stated, greatly exceeded expeclat ions.

WESTPORT QUAKE. WESTPORT, Alarch IS. Westport experienced a very severe shake at 9.53 n.m. The shake was preceded by a terrific bomb, like Hie sound of a great explosion. No damage is renort-ed.

CREW Till EVEN AUCKLAND, .March IS. At the Police Court Jniiise Victor Weller, aged 24, George James Glover, aged 25, and David Charles Morris, aged 21. members of the crew of the Northumberland, admitted embezzling cargo- to the value of 50s. L*s. and L'K) His, cac-h respectively. Each was sen tenced to one month’s imprisonment.

A DETER All NED SUICIDE. ROTORUA. Alarch IS

AYhen the incoming noon train was approaching Kontu Station, a man threw himself in front of the engine. Tfe was mangled out. of recognition. The body was taken to Rotorua Alorgue. It has not. been identified. Ail eye-witness of the tragedy at Koulii, which is two miles train Rotorua states the victim stood mi the ramp at the Hag station, and dived directly in front of the engine. Ihe fireman saw him lean, but was unable to prevent the fatality. The train was instantly stopped. The body was placed in the van. 11 was utterly unidentifiable. Apparently the man belonged to the working class, and was 45 or 50 vein's of ago. He had a thick, coa.rse board, and a moustache slightly grey. His only personal posse-sinus were certain ties. The police are conducting inquiries. There will be an inquest to-morrow.

SHOOTING TRAGEDY. GISBORNE. Alareli IS. Slmrtly after nine o'clock this evening, the body of Thomas .Manus AfeGielian, a prominent business man and manager of Common. Shelton and Co., was found in the vicinity of his resilience, (lentil having resulted from a gunshot wound in the head. AleGielian had been troubled by dogs worrying sheen in the maize on bis property. and in the afternoon left Hie house with the intention of shooting the dogs. As he did not return, a search party went out and found his body near a fence on the maize patch, with the gun on the other side. Deceased was 37 years of age. and leaves n widow and four children, the youngest a few weeks old.

DOCTOR FIXED. AUCKLAND, March 18. • A charge of practising medicine williou'i a, eerrifionie registration was admitted To-day In the Police Court by an Auckland suburban doctor, whose name was ordered to he suppressed by the Magistrate. Mr Vi . R. .McKean. Counsel said it was Intended to plead guilty, although the offence was merely a technical one, <1 no to negligence bv tbc defendant. Ho bad (nullified at tbe l Diversity of Manitoba. Canada. in 1017. subsequent !v serving as a surgeon in Lbe Royal Air Force and Royal Army Medical Corps in England. lie came to "New Zealand in 1 Oil-’,, but prior to bis departure he was assured that his English registration would be recognised in the Dominion. Unfortunately a slight alteration was made by the Legislature at that time, which provided that when English registration was founded upon a qualification other than that ol Kngland. it would not be recognised in New Zealand. Dolondniit had been practising constantly in the suburbs since his arrival, and had bad bis provisional registration renewed every three months. This lapsed, Imt it had now been renewed. Tbe Magistrate said lie did not- regard tbe offence as serious in tbe circumstances. A fine ol Cl with costs would be imposed. ' ROWING. PTCTON. March 19. A conference of delegates attending the New Zealand championship regatta at Piccon cm riled last night hv acclamation. a motion to support the New Zealand Olympic Council project of raising £SOOO to send a team, ol oarsmen to the next Olmvpie games at Amsterdam in 1928. The Olympic Council expressed the view that New Zealand's prospects of success was mucli stronger in rowing than in any other branch of sport. If a crew ot ten men was sent thev could compete in eight, four, pairs, double and single sculls. '