DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 July 1927, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association. INS P LTINO LANGUAGE. CHRISTCHURCH. July I. Herbert Henry Dunkley. described as one of the unempl >yed. was fined £5 in delimit a month's imprisonment today. for Using insulting language to R. B. Owen, a member of the Citizens’ Relief Committee at tile Relief Depot. The .Magistrate described Dunkley as a 1 1 1 rif! 1< and thankless individual. .MOTOR CAR ACCIDENTS. GISBORNE. July J. A motor accident is reported from Morere. A car driven by T. O-iuond 'imic; sn ulmd fur times over Shaw 's Hill at the Hairpin Bend. The car wa - sma -• 1 11 ■< I. The driver had a i miraenioU' escape.

At Manutaki two ears went inio a dit'-li .one turning a complete somersault. A hoy. .Jack \\ ralalle. one ot eeupa uts. was pinned underneath hut escaped- injury. All's Pearson. the occupant of the other ear was badly cut about the eye. Roth ears were damaged.

AI EAT IPROBEC MBS' BO \K 0. NOAIINATIONS FOR VACANCIES. WELLINGTON. July 1. The returning officer announces that he has received the following nominations tor three vacancies for p roll nieces' represent at ios ell tlie New Zealand .Meat Producers’ Board: Afessrs Jl. I). Achind (Christchurch'' sitting member; James Carr (Alethven) ; J. (). Coop (Little River); J. S. Jesse]i iAAairna). sitting member: Robert Latter .(New Brighton, Christchurch): William Perry (Mas'.crton) sitting member.

I'he election, will lake place on August 251 h. w lien the delegates who represent tlie various districts throughout the Dominion, and who cunstitule the Electoral Commil tee, w ill assemble in Wellington to consider the fifth annual report and statement of accounts ol the Board, ai.nl to elect the three producers' jcprcscntnlives on the Hoard.

Nominations for the delegates to the Electoral Committee close at the Board's office at noon on the BSth. of this month, and a postal ballot will then he conducted amongst the shoepf'anners in the dßi riels w here ihe

nomination' nr" in excess of the number of delegate's required. TDTA USA. TOR RE ICM ITS. DAY EACH T< > FR ANK UN AND T.\ eaia r a A C I. WELLINGTON, July I. "Ihe two floating totalisator permits held by the .Minister for Internal Affairs are to he allotted this year to tin h rank! in and Tuumurnnui Raring Clllhs," said the lion Mr Bollaid in reply to representations by a deputation (hat one of flic permigiven to the Bay of Islands Chili (Kail akawa ).

Ihe .Minister said these permits were held tor the IK,' of one-day f otalisal or elifhs which were .in financial .Tiffieulths. ||e had found that there were several clubs, in a worse position than the' Bay of Islands Club, and he had therefore come to the decision iu-o----i iollr. !.

SI PR EM K CHERT. ACCKI.ANI). July I. At the Supreme Court. Arthur Andrew Scott, aged L>S, was sentenced (o lour years hard lor breaking, entering and theft. William Recti' Campbell, eg, for breaking and entering was ordered to twelve months reformative detention.

NORMAL K( 111)01. FIR F. ARK LAND. July L Burns (( hainnaii of Auckland Edm-a-tic.n board) docs nor ibiuk the Norma! School lire was sinned deliberately. He was quite salj.-hcd it, began tu the basement. The caretaker assured him that till the (lotus giving entrance to the space under the school were locked tit 5 p.m. mi Saturday.

A VANDAL'S ACT. CORF, July I. Wright and Stephenson's store at Gore was entered over the week-end and about 390 hags of seed slashed with sharp kniic. Dressed seed of till varieties is mixed in liopeiess contusion. A belt of a motor was cut and oil poured in the motor, necessitating a thorough overhaul. The perpetrators of the outrage are unknown. As a result ot the vandalism, the operations ol a big seed-cleaing plant is held up lor at least a week.

A BABY’S DFATH. GIS BOR XK. July 4. A verdict that death was due to sulfocation hut that there was nothing to show how suffocation was brought about, was given by the Coroner at an inquest this morning on an infant son ](i hours old of Mr and Mrs George Nelson.

VICAR’S ‘'BDMJ’SH ELL.” PAH!ATI'A. July 1. At St Peter's palronal festival the Rev. G. W. Fenwick said it was the fourth annual social he had attended, and he believed it was the gayest and cheeriest.. It was usual, he said, to drop a, few 'bombs at a gathering where all were pi'ejrnt. because tney did not come to parish meetings or church. He commenced by referring to the small numbers at services, and asked the parishioners to remember Sunday, vrthen they had an opportunity of terminating the festivities by doing their, rulv to the Almighty. Quite a number of young people were not making the effort they might. They were all to he found at pictures, dances, hockey and football matches. “When church was mentioned all had marvellous excuses for evasion. 'I here was no harm in a social like that, but nearly always harm came out of modern dances. lie asked li::,s listeners to remember that they had a duty towards their church, and he hoped lliev would try to finish up the (estival by keeping Sunday well.

DR BUCK'S GIFTS TO MUSEUM. AUCKLAND. July 1. Dr Peter Buck, who knives for Honolulu on Tuesday, by the Aorangi. to take up the Directorship of Polynesian Research, lias made a valuable gift, to the Auckland Museum. Clubs, basket-work, mats, adzes and bowls from the Cook Islands and Melanesia have been given to the Museum, which already holds ninny tokens of Dr Buck's generosity. He has: also placed a valuable taialia, a tribal heirloom. and an ancient paddle for safe keeping in the Museum, in addition to a highly polished food howl.

TR, AMWA.YMRX'S DECISION. DUNEDIN. July 1. The Dunedin tramwayment who favour a Dominion working agreement have decided to withdraw from the Tramwaymen's Federation, which favours agreements lor each of the v aliens centres. Yesterday a circalai was distributed among tramway employees by the Otago District Council of the New Zealand Alliance of Labour, which apparently had not been advised of the decision, asking the men not to take such a step to disorganise their forces.