DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 July 1927, Page 4

DOMINION NEWS.

I By Telegraph—Per Press Association. .MAIN HIGHWAYS BOARD. WELLINGTON, July fl. The M ain Highways Board has advised County Councils that owing to the necessity of having to transfer portion of its a ecu mu kited revenue from the renewal land to the construction fund for the year in order to meet commitments, and in view of the large inroads that will be made on available cash in the revenue fund it will he necessary to insure all reasonable care lie taken to see that funds are .judiciously expended on the maintenance of main highways. Where it is found necessary for counties to apply for sums in excess of those allotted for the year, a full explanation as to the cause of increased expenditure must he forwarded to the PublicWorks Department, so that it may lie embodied in the application to the Main Highways Board for authority. Councils are therefore asked to incur no expenditure cither than what is absolutely essential.

SERIOUS FIRE. AUCKLAND, July !). Extensive damage was caused by a fire early this morning to a two storey brick building in Customs Street Ijsst, owned by J. Robertson and occupied by James Giltnour and Coy. general merchants. All goods in the upper storey were completely destroyed, the roof and fittings being badly burnt. The goods on the ground floor were slightly damaged hy water, (bn tents insured in Victoria Office for £IO,OOO, building in Queensland Office C-1000. The origin is a mys-

SEBSTANTIAL BEOUESTS. HAWERA, July !b Under the will of the late Charles Clarke Woods, of llawera. whose death was recorded a lew days ago the following legacies, in all eases sums of £IOO each have been bequeathed Salvation Army of New Zealand; Commercial 'I revellers Assoiation; Fund for Blind Soldiers; llawera Hospital Board to provide comforts for nurses at the hospital ; Dr Barado’s Home, London; Vestrvs at Christchurch and Hawera to he used for religious moral training of youths of tin? parish; Hawera Borough Council for development of turnouts, reserve to be applied toward erection of a imminent or other memorial to perpetuate the names ot those who fell in defence ot the Redoubt in 1808.

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. WELLINGTON. July 8. The new regulations governing weights and measures contain a provision that after Wednesday nextbottles used for the sale of milk or cream shall he made only in sizes ot I quart, If pint, 1 pint. 2 gills. 1 gill and .V gill. The regulations which were gazetted in January last provide ihat. each bottle shall have its capacity i learl.v and indelibly marked in or on the side in letters or figures not less ilia, i inch in depth. The glass bottles shall hold the correct quantity when lilted to within « inch of the cap. 'lbis shall not. apply when the bottles arc provided with a. clearly defined and indelible line marked on the bottle an extending at least hall-zwa? round it. which indicates the correct capacity, and with the words, “fill to the line" marked over the line prominetil-

It is an offence also, after Wedneday next, for any person to sell hut ter or tea by retail enclosed in package in any quantity other lkn Liz, 2 oz. J oz. (ioz. So/, 12ox, 111) an fflb or multiples of lib net avoirdt; puis weight.

, TAMPERED /WITH WEIGHING , MACHINE. AUCKLAND, duly 8. ! William cm it it pleaded guilty ami , was fined £lO and costs on a charge of failing to have scales re-verified and also for tampering with a weighing machine so as to cause it to weigh ; unjustly. <y | Tho prosecution slated that the of--1 fence consisted of attaching a piece of lead to tjhe container side of the scales causing them to weigh six drams short. I Accused's counsel maintained that . Smith was foolish but not dishonest as tho sugar weighed on the scales was sold a a halfpenny less than at ( tiler shops. LETTER TO .MR NELSON. PRACTICALLY THREAT TO DEPORT. WELLINGTON, July 8. Addressing a question to (ho Minister for External Affairs in tho House ibis afternoon the Leader of the Opposiion (Air H. E. Holland) read a letter sent by the Administrator of Samoa to the Hon. Mr Nelson practically threatening him with deportation on his return to Samoa from New Zealand. Tie asked the Minister whether that letter had been written with the authority of the Governor-fn-Council and asked him to say that no deportation would take place without fair trial. The Hon Mr Nosworthv said the Government did not interpret the letter in the way that Mr .Holland had. They did'not propose to treat Mr Nclso unfairly because he was coming to New Zealand. At the same time a good deal would depend upon how matters shaped. He (the Minister) had given everybody fair waring while lie was at Samoa, and if it should l>e necessary in the interests of peace and god oiV.er to deport one or two Europeans, the Government would do it. Pressed by Mr Holland to say vbother Sir George Richardson’s Idler was written with the authority of the" Government the Minister was mderstood to say that it was not.

TYPHOID IN HOSPITAL. FIVE nurses’ INFECTED. WHANGAREI, July 8. During June a Maori patient was admitted to the local hospital suffering from pneumonia, complicated by typhoid The former so overshadowed tiio typhoid that its presence was not detected for some days, by which time five nurses had been infeeted. Nurse Potter, aged twenty-one, died yesterday. The others are progressing satisfactorily No cases have occurred outside the hospital

PAINFUL ACCIDENT. PAHI'ATUA. July 9. Bert Rilfliy, a young man. had a gash made in his ieft o'hrv.v. He was engaged stumping, when a jack shifted, and Bibbv fell hack, his olbow striking another rod. He was employed cm T. IV. Eddie’s farm at Central Road.

HYDRO SCHEME. BLENHEIM. July 9. Gates closing the diversion of the tunnel of the Waihopai hydro scr.eme were closed last evening. The dam is now filling. The official switching on of power is now within sight. The scheme will provide power and light practically to the whole province, at a cost of £300.090. FOOTBALLERS INJURED. AUCKLAND. July 10. A series of football accidents oceur-

S. A. Lowry sustained a broken jaw in a. senior League match. L. Boyle, a second grade League player, bad a bone in bis foot broken. Vivian Vise, a second grade I-e ague player, sustained a broken leg. T. Tyo, a junior Rugby player, sustained a broken collar-bone. G. AVarini. a Rugby junior, sustained a broken bone in the foot.