DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 May 1927, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[I!Y TELEGRAPH—PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] PARER .MILL DIVIDEND. DUNEDIN, Afay 1. At the forthcoming annual meeting ol the New Zealand Paper Alills. tho directors will recommend payment of a further dividend of 3 per cent, making G per rent, for the year.

DOBSON DISASTER. CHRISTCHURCH. Afav I

AYlion tin' three bodies of the remaining victims ol the Dobson mining disaster are recovered and an inquest is bold, ik' .Minister of Alines, Hon. Air And' son, stated on Saturday, that the Board of Inquiry will be set up to ascertain, il possible, the cause of the explosion. It was his desire that the fullest investigation should lie made into the whole of the circumstances surrounding the matter.

HOUSING IN CITIES. CHRISTCHURCH. May I

During a discussion in the House last session on the Rent Restriction Bill, some members urged that a Commission should be set up to inquire into housing conditions generally, and particularly in its more populated centres. Ike .Minister of Labour. Hon. G. .T. Anderson, promised then that he would visit the four principal cities of the Dominion and see for himself the slum areas. Before leaving Dunedin cn Saturday, the .Minister, accompanied by local members of Parliament, paid a visit to several areas' in that city where the housing conditions are considered not all that, could lie desired. 'I lie .Minister will carry out a similar inspection at Christchurch to-morrow, ami will see for himself (he dwellings ol some ol the people who would lie most alTected if t-he Rent Restriction Act were allowed to lapse.

TRIPLE DROWNING ACCIDENT AUCKLAND. April 30. “These small boats are all right for paddling to a launch or a yacht, lint they are certainly tint made to carry three or four across a stretch of water such as the Rangitoto Channel,” said Coroner Hunt. K.AL at the inquest on the victims of the Rangitoto drowning fatality. The three victims were Raymond Kirkwood Afnthioson. Doris Ethel Longtiol and Annie Amelia franklin. A verdict of death liv accidental drowning was given. .MOTOR AND OAR COLLIDE. DUNEDIN, .May 2. Last evening a motor car collided violently with a descending Stuart St. cable ear. Minor injuries were inflicted to two occupants of the motor ear, Gustave Johnston and Airs Gladys Lindsay, while one tram‘passenger. Alts Watson, was also slightly hurt. Ihe motor was badly damaged and the ear s’ightly. A THIEF’S SUCCESS. ( lIEISTCIIUECII. .May 2. thrusting his hand through a small aperture in a glassed-in box at the office of Everybody's Theatre on Saturday evenng. a young man snatched about £2O in notes and silver, and 'lashed off with a confederate. An amazed office girl gave the alarm and members of the managerial staff gave chase alter the thieves, hut the pair raced up Chancery Lane and vanished.

SALVATION A lIAt Y <ONFFKKNIT WELLINGTON. .May 2.

The Salvation Army is holding ire Dominion Congress here at which over 400 members assembled, presided over by C'onmi issionor Huy. renders M’t

out' the policy of the Army in the shape of additional corps work, more aggressive open air at tivity. more young people's work, and even greater and more intense labour for the fallen and distressed.

Residtlt inns were pa-sed dealing v. ith worhlliuess and frivolity.- drunkenness and drugs, gambling, including art

unions and tote, maintenance of Sunday school activities, more decided evangelism and application of measures likely to succeed in saving men and women, and finally an effort to increase tho Army twenty per cent by next Christmas.

Large public meetings and thildren’s demonstration are included in the programme of the Congress which lasts till AVednesday.

LABOUR PARTY’S RESOLUTIONS AY ELLINGTON. May 2.

The local Labour Party signalised Mav Day bv passing a resolution expressing its sense of unity and fraternity with workers throughout the world, who are striving to abolish poverty, militarism, war and evils arising from the competitive system of society, also denouncing militarist measures against China and the decision of the Government vote ol a million to Singapore.

A BURGLARY. AUCKLAND, May 2. Feet's grocery store in Karaiigahapc Road was broken into during the week end and over sixty pounds worth of stock stolen. The burglar left Ins pipe on the counter and a heavy calibre revolver bullet Unit was found on the floor indicates be was aimed. LABOUR LEADER. TAUMARUNUf, May 2. Air IT. Holland (Leader of the Oilposition) addressed a large audience here on Saturday night in the Theatre Royal. He dealt mainly' with the land policy, timber industry and dairy control. As far as timber was concerned. t'he Labour Party advocated a revenue producing tariff and would not permit other imported timber to drive our own off the market. Out of some ten thousand timber workers in the Dominion two thousand were only partially employed, foreign timber being brought to the Dominion from Sweden at a cost less than the railage .from Ohakune to Wellington. Mr Holland claimed that the position which had arisen recently in the dairy industry was not due to the operations of the Hoard but to the work of speculators and the manner in which supplies bad been held is storage.