DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 May 1927, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

[BT TELKGRAPn—PEE PRESS ASSOCIATION.] I i FOUND DEAD. NEW PLYMOUTH, April 29. Louis Trumann, aged ninety-seven, was found dead at his residence this evening. Born in Germany, Air Trumann came to the Dominion over fifty years ago and was a tobacconist in Petone for some years, later conducting a tea merchant’s business in New Plymouth. He was a naturalised New Zealander and was greatly delighted when his son was decorated while serving with the New Zealand Expeditionary Forde. THE TIAIBER BORER. WELLINGTON, April 29. “An unnecessary bugbear has crept into the timber trade, especially so far as wood users are concerned,” declared Air A. R. Entrican. of the State Forest .Service, in the course of an address last evening to architects. “There is the poor regard in which sap timbers are held. This is no doubt due to I painful experience in certain classes of work, but that experience lias 110 L justified the conclusion that sap timber •' is of little use for many purposes. “Owing to the prevalence of the * common house borer wood users 101115 moldy believe that the use of heart 1 timber will effectually withstand its • ravages. It is a. mistake. Certainly - holer attacks sap timber more easily " than heart timber, hut if sap timber is 1 pur. into a new house and care taken to exclude insect infested furniture, firewood, boxes, etc., that house will jirohailily last as well as one built of ' heart timber.” 1 The whole trouble. Air Entriean said. ' was that the attack of the boivr was l> spread through contractors being allowed in the demolition ot condemned 1 houses to cart timber away, and to 1 use some as brew I and the re-t inputting into other homes. 1 lie remr cdy for the borer problem lay in con corted action by local authorities in r insi.-ting upon timber removed I rum * condemned buildings: being promptly - burnt. There was no doubt that over t 90 per cent of the spread of borer in- - lection took place in the manner stilt ’ ed. t r MILK SUPPLY. AUCKLAND, April 27. ■ We thought we were getting a spei cud Jersey supply at Is 9d a gallon. ’ I said the Chairman of the Hospital e Board. 1 “ Oh. no,” said a milk vendor, “you 4 wore getting a Holstein supply.” e “ That’s all very well.” replied the 1 Chairman, “hut does the Holstein supply allow to be below the standard set ■ by the Government?” According to Air W. Wallace this 1 was the conversation he had with the - vendor ot the special milk tor the 1 children’s ward at the Auckland llos--1 pital. The vendor’s services were dispensed with by the hoard last night. The Pathological Department supplied a report which compared the “special” , supply unfavourably with the general 1 supply. On two occasions the “ spor--1 ial ’’ milk had proved by test to he suitable for drinking only after pas- ’ tcurisation. Two samples had been ’ below the legal limit of 3.25 per cent ’’ of milk lat. f “It has shown a glaring deficiency.’ " said the Chairman, “ while we artgetting a line ordinary supply.” SIX AIILLION LOAN. WELLINGTON, Afav 1. The Alßlister of Finance announced • to-day that the New Zealand Loan on 1 the London market is for £(3,000,000. s It is a five per cent, issue, at £99 10s as compared with a similar issue last ' year at £9B 10s. 1 The return to investors, with the redemption, will he fr> 0s lOd per cent., ' compared with £5 2s fid per cent, on last year’s loan. ' The proceeds of the loan will he allocated to railway construction, addi- ’ t,ion„s, and improvements to the extent L of £4),000,000; hydro-electrical develop--1 mold £900,000; telegraph extension ' £700,000; other public works, £1 ,350.5 009; total £0.000.000. s Other colonial loans recently issued on London market wore:' South Australia, £2,.‘09,009 five per cent, at j. 98; Western Australia £1.500,000. five per cent, at £97 10s; Commonwealth , of Australia (Convention Loan) £ll,000,000 odd. five per cent, at £9B. i BREACH OF AWARD.

WANGANUI, April 29.

At the Magistrate's Court to-day, Murray Bros, of the Royale Willows Restaurant, were proceeded against by Inspector G lions for a breach of the award. It was stated that between January 27th. and February 23rd. they employed (i. McLean as a kitchen hand and failed to keep in the wages and time book a correct record of the name of the worker, the nature of the work and the hours of employment, and the wages paid each week. The penalty claimed was £lO.

The Inspector said that there was no reference to AfcLcan. in the timebook after December. F. Afarray said that at (ho time McLean was temporary employee in connection with catering for the Presbyterian Bible Class. His time, with others, was kept on. separate sheets and was not put in the time book. The permanent employees’ names wei'e entered > a proper book. Ho produced a number of the sheets referred to.

The Inspector said that two of the sheets were not in the file produced when ho visited the premises, but had since been added.

The Magistrate, after inspecting the file, said that he was satisfied the two sheets had been much less folded than the others. He considered That the breach of tho award was clearly proved. The Inspector should be able, by going to the book to check the status of the kitchen. The entering on the sheets also raised a dispute as to whether the sheets brought into the court were the sheets shown, to the inspector. Two of them had the appearance of being written up at a sitting.

The Inspector pointed out that on a previous occasion defendant had been fined £d for failing to keep a wages and time-book.

Judgment was entered for plaintiff for £5.

s CATTLE STEALING. GISBORNE. April 30. e Wariki Wnihi, a Maori sheep farmf|er at Ruatoria was committed for trial on a charge of stealing eighteen s cattle from neighbouring farmers, , which he is alleged to have collected •. when driving a mob to town. 1 TRAWLING TRAGEDY. ; AUCKLAND, April ,'W. Word was received by the police to- j day that Sidney Veale, fireman on I Sandford and Company’s trawler. Countess, fell overboard at 2 p.m. yesterday in tlie vicinity of Tiri Lighthouse and | was drowned. He was a married man i with three children. AUCKLAND, April fid. Details of the drowning of Sidney Veale, a fireman on the trawler CounI tess, in the Hauraki Gulf, about 22 I miles from Auckland, show that the j fatality occurred while the Countess ; was trawling in a calm sea. with a light wind blowing. Alexander Reid, I who was on watch, did not see Veale come on deck, nor did he see him fall into the water. He noticed Veale • struggling in the sen, and immediately

gave the alarm. The engines were stopper], and a boat was lowered. Yeale was now some 100 yards astern. Quick work had the boat rushing to the rescue, but Veale suddenly disappeared, and although the boat stood by for some time be did not re-nppeai*. Veale, who was married, with three children, lived in the Great South Road, Alanurewa. He was employed by Sandford, Ltd., fish merchants, and had been only two weeks a fireman on the firm’s trawler Countess, although lie had been an employee in other work for a number of years.

DARING THEFT. CHRISTCHURCH. April .‘lO. A till containing money and papers was stolen from a shop at New Brighton last evening. The theft was a daring one, as the owner of the premises, a widow, was at- the rear of the shop within hearing when the theft was committed. The till contained only two pounds, some papers and a gold band ring of a total value of about four pounds. Some chocolates also were taken. The till was found in an adjoining empty section this morning. The money and the ring were missing. TRUTH ABOUT MEXICO. AUCKLAND. A toy 1Speak i tig at St. Benedict’s tins morning, Bishop Liston made the following comments on the recent entiles from Alcxieo:—“ The cables are wholly unreliable. They are sent by a Government that lias exiled or imprisoned nearly all the Bishops, has put to death many priesis and men and women : has confiscated all the ( lunch piopertv ; has closed all the Catholic churches. the hospitals, the orphanages and schools; and that, in the Bolshevist manner, is making war on religion. It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye ol a needle than foi a cable unfavourable to this Government to leave tbe country. Further, the statement that the victims (of the railway outrage) were returning from tbe Holy Week ceremonies in -Mexico t 1 1v discredits the whole story. Sin e August there have been no public services in any Catholic Church of AlcxI ico, and the Government law. since January, forbids priests to say Atoss, even alone in their own homes. Again, if the .Mexican Government has incontestable proofs that Bishops are responsible for murder of one hundred people, why be content with exiling them ? AVliy not court-martial and shoot them? AVe can be sure trie Bishops would welcome a lair trial, and that they are being exiled unwillingly. Their leader, the Archbishop of Alexico, is according to the “ New York World.” a frail, ascetic, gentle, old man. all spiritualty—but only bis body is frail. In courage and nobility ol soul he measures up to the full height of Cardinal Alercier. He would not willingly desert bis people, or fail to defend bis honour. He and his brother Bishops have always counselled patience, prudence and obedience to the laws, so far as conscience allows, and bade their people look for help to prayer, and not. to arms.”