DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 April 1927, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

[ilY telegraph—mi PRESS association.] PROPOSED CONFERENCE. CHRISTCHURCH, April 21. V conference of some importance will lie held at the Hermitage, Aft. Cook, at the end of this month. Aft. Cook Motor Co. has invited the Chairman Deputy-Chairman and engineers of Alackenzie, Waitaki, levels, Vincent and Lake Counties to attend a conference on back country tourist routes. The Hons K. Williams. W. Nosworthy and F. J- Rollestou have also been invited to attend. The idea of the conference is to push tourist traffic in New Zealand by getting better roads. HARBOR BOARD .MEMBERS. WELLINGTON, April 21. D. ,T. McGowan was re-elected to the Harbour Board as representative of payers of dues on goods. Captain C. Afc'Arthur and C. AI. Turrcll were reelected ns representatives of payers of dues on ships. DOBSON MINE. WELLINGTON, April 21. Tbe Alinister of Alines has received advice-that the main ventilation at Dobson Aline has been restored. Tho underground machinery is not much damaged, but all the roads are badly knocked about. Preparations are being made to install a pump for the lower workings. OFF TO CANBERRA. WELLINGTON. April 21. Hon A. D. MoLeod, who will represent New Zealand at tho opening of tbe new Federal Capital at Canberra on 9th. Alay, will leave for Sydney on 20th. April. During his stay in tho Commonwealth Air AlcLeod, as Alinister of Industries and Commerce will look into various trading matters affecting Australia and New Zealand. TUBERCULOSIS. CHRISTCHURCH. April 21. “The ultimate defeat of tuberculosis seems so certain that it appears to he worth while making a determined and united effort in New Zealand to bring about that defeat at the earliest possible moment,” states the medical director of the tuberculosis institution (Dr Blackniorc) in his annual report to the North Canterbury Hospital Board. In 1902 about one death in ten was due to tuberculosis. In 1926 it was only about one in sixteen. In every part of tile world where active measures are being taken against tuberculosis, similar results are being recorded. It may be assumed that at tbe present time there are about 7000 recognised cases of tuberculosis in New Zealand and it- is obvious that the sanatoria are treating only a small proportion of these cases. Even in Christchurch where we are treating more of our consumptives than other districts are doing, we are certainly not dealing with more than half of those who arc actually suffering from the disease. WINE STOLEN. AUCKLAND, April 19. Auckland burglars, who have been so busy of late, spent a comparatively quiet Easter although one raid on a big scale was successfully carried out at the premises of Alarena Wines, i-O Park road, where it was discovered th'is morning by the proprietor, Air V. E. Pisarenko, blender of'wines, that the interior was in a general state of litter. and a considerable portion of the stock had disappeared. The burglars hail endeavoured to obtain entry by boring a- large hole in the front door, hut found their efforts foiled by a thick sheet of iron behind it ,a precaution that had been taken as the result of a burglary at the same place last Christinas, when £IOO worth of stock was carried away. The burglars forced an entry through the fanlight of a window. Once inside, tlieir movements appeared to he of an unhurried nature, and after judicious sampling, they made a selection ot the best stock, even siphoning wine from the large casks into smaller jars with a rubber tube. “They made a. great mess in the cellar, and when 1 arrived this morninb there was straw everywhere,” Air Pisarenko told a- reporter. “They took a suit of clothes, an attache case, amt even my hammers, paste and labels—so much, in fact, that they must have carried it away in a conveyance. They took wine in bottles jars, and in hulk. It was a large loss to me, and is much more than.£4o.'' THE (10VERNOR-G ENERAL. WELLINGTON, April 19. Tho Governor-General (Sir Charles Fergusson) and Lady Alice Fergusson left Wellington to-day on a visit to Tokaanu. They will return about Hie end of tho month.