DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1927, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS.

[llT TELEGRAPH PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION 1 INQUEST VERDICT. CHRISTCHURCH, May 2. The inquest on Timothy Hartnett, the old age pensioner who died suddenly in his house on Thursday, was concluded, before Mr Lowry, S.M., today. Evidence taken, on Friday was to tbc effect that Hartnett returned to bis lodgings under the influence of liquor, and took a fit, from which he' did not recover. A led i cal evidence was that death was due to asphyxia, caused by a foreign body obstructing the air passages. The Coroner found accordingly. DISAPPOINTED AVI DOW. ■WELLINGTON, May 2. How a widow with three children was induced to come to New Zealand under the impression that employment was plentiful was told at the Hospital Board meeting yesterday .The chairman said the widow was a very fine woman. AVitli her children she had paid her own way out. selling up her home in England, under the impression that .she would he able to do something for her children. She was able in the Old Country to earn enough to keep herself in a very different position. At present she had a position where she was able to earn £2 os a week. She wanted the hoard to assist towards paying her return passage Home. She was a very disappointed woman indeed. Mrs (MeVicar: Oh, she will get over that. Air Chapman said he knew quite a number of immigrants who had been disillusioned. The Rev. F. Van Staveren said this was an isolated case, a ease where a woman had paid her own passage. The Government could not he held responsible. The Chairman (Mr C. Af. Luke) : The case is a bona fide one. Air A'an Staveren: That is all right but the Government should not be blamed. AVe can’t prevent people coming here if they pay their own boat fare. The Chairman: 1 believe the placards displayed in London are very enticing indeed, more so than those of ot 1,,., Dominions, according to the woman’s story. It was pointed out that financial assistance had already been given the woman, and that the question of assisting her to return to England was under consideration. OLD AIAN SUICIDES. BLENHEIM, ATay 3. An ojd mail. Oswald Nesliet, aged J 72 years, an old age pensioner, suicided by drowning himself in Kaituna stream yesterday. He left a stick in the bank as a sign to searchers. Round his neck was a sugar bag filled with stones.