DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 August 1927, Page 4

DOMINION NEWS.

1 (I!y Telegraph—Per Press Association.) A LOBBY INCIDENT. MORE TAIL THAN' BLOWS. WELLINGTON, July 29. A Labour member and Government supporter, who have had verbal differences of opinion in the House, became subjects of excited gossip during the dinner adjournment to-day. The argil, ment, it seemed, had been continued in the lobby and a demand from the Labourite for an apology is alleged to have been greeted with blows. Peacemakers were handy. The blows if they could be called such, were hardly more than rough pushes and Iriendliness afterwards prevailed in the most obvious way. At dinner, however stories of a fight in the lobby continued to circulate, though the principal parties were happily unconscious of the stir they had created. One has to go far back into New Zealand Parliamentary history to dig up a story of a real bout of fisticuffs between legislators. DAIRY BOARD’S CHAIRMAN. AUCKLAND, July 29. The rumour that Mr W. Grounds, chairman of the Dairy Produce Board, had been appointed New Zealand representative of'Messrs A. J. Mills and Company, Ltd., a large British firm of dairy produce importers, lias been emphatically and officially denied, both by tho organisation named and by Mr Grounds himself. In a telegram to the “New Zealand Herald,” Mr Grounds said: “No truth whatcvei in the report. 1 represent the producers only.” Mr W. AY. linker who has represented Messrs Mills in Auckland for the past twelve years referred the rumoured appointment to his principals, receiving a cablegram advising that tho statement was incorrect, and saying that it would probably be contradicted by Mr Grounds.

CAR THEFT. WHANG A HE.I, July 29. A valunbio Willys-Knight cur, owned by Air H. W. Crawford, managing director of the “Northern Advocate.” was commandeered from the welllighted front of the A’.Af.C'.A. rooms about ten o’clock last night. Later it was found in a badly wrecked condition on the main roadside near Ifiknrangi. evidently having somersnifltcd twice. Bloodstains denoted injury to the person or persons concerned.

A LUCKY ESCAPE. AYHANGAREI, July 29. .Mrs Dreadon, aged 03 years, alter alighting from a bus. walked on to a railway crossing at Kamo Road, l ight in front of an incoming train. She was carried over the cattle stop and then thrown a slide, miraculously escaping with a crushed linger and a minor injury to her ,'hip.

IMPORTANT CIIKE.SE SAI-1

CAM BRIDGE. July ;Xi

Cambridge Co-operative Dairy Cov. has sold the whole of its cheese output until the end of November at a price that will enable them to pav suppliers approximately nineteen pence for hutterfat. This is probably the best, deal made for Ihe coming season, and a thirds general satisfaction. ll is also an indication of better prospects for the industry Post season.

PEDESTRIAN RUN DOWN. AUCKLAND. July 31

A dark spot on the Panmure Road was the scene of a motoring fatality on Saturday evening. A Maori, Melon Iloani, a single man, ot Ohineuuiri. Rotorua, being killed. J. C. Craig was motoring along the road when suddenly at a very dark spot and at a point were the concrete is narrow, and there are no footpaths, the deceased appeared walking in front of the ear. Craig promptly applied iho brakes, but it was too late to prevent knocking the pedestrian down. ITonni sustained extensive bead injuries Imm which lie died.

DUNEDIN STATISTICS. DUNEDIN. July 31

Heavy clearances of whisky and tobacco from bonds, in view of the impending tariff report, were responsible for a big increase this month over the revenue of July last year. The amounts collected by the Customs Department in the month ended today fwith those for July of last year in parentheses) were s-s follows: Customs £9(1,971 13s 7<l (£(58,415 10s 3d), beer £12,377 16s Id (£13,722 10s Id). More births and fewer deaths, as compared with July of last year, were registered at Dunedin during the past month. The figures (with last year’s in parentheses) are: Births 131 (130), deaths 84 (110). marriages 55 (55).

LIQUOR DUTY RETURNS. CHRISTCHURCH, July 30. Following on t lip abnormal conditions which prevailed during June owing to largo clearances of spirits from bond in anticipation of an increase in tlip duty, the Customs revenue collected in Christchurch during the present month has approximated a normal amount. In June this year the net Customs duties collected amounted to the large total of £116,024 8s 3d, as against £92,531 11s 9d in June of last year. During the past month the amount collected was £97,623 3s Id, compared with £77,676 lfis 3d in July last year.. The beer duty this July was £0.729 18s, and that in July last year £5,830 15s.

AfOTOR-CYCLE ACCIDENT. GISBORNE, July 31. Late on Saturday night, two youths, Janies Gurney Alwin. aged 17 years, and James Higgs, aged 10 years, were admitted to the hospital in an unconscious condition, through a motor-cycle, driven by Alwin, With Higgs on the pillion, capsizing. The patients are reported to he progressing satisfactorily, but the extent of their injuries is not known.

BUSH-FELLING TRAGEDY. NELSON". July 31. A fatal hush-felling accident is reported from ICairuru. John Fowler, aged about 33. tbe youngest son of Mr Stanley Fowler, was engaged with his father clearing away trees which had been hung up, when one tree crashed, striking him on the back and pinning him to the ground. Dentil was almost instantaneous.

BOY’S THEFTS. CHRISTCHURCH. July HO. Seven charges of theft were admitted by a lad. aged 15 years, at the Children’s Court to-day. His story was he had lost £lO belonging to his employer. He told a friend, who lent him the money, and he then stole to repay the loan. The Magistrate, however, after questioning the hoy closely, said that his story would not hold together. The hoy had stoi'en sums amounting to Cl ? IPs from his employer’s letters. He was committed to (he care of the Child Welfare Officer.

TRAIN HITS BIG SLIP. * WELLINGTON. July 31. When approaching Wellington at ten o’clock on Saturday night, a good? train crashed intg_jt__hig_slia_2lLJllgi

lino. The following trucks were telescoped, and one breaking lose fell on to a worker’s cottage, taking the side out of a room in which two children were sleeping, and falling over the cot. Both children were unharmed. Another cottage was also shorn of a side. No one was injured. The engine became stuck in the slip. The scene of the accident is just above Kaiwarawara.

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