DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 August 1927, Page 1

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) DIED IN THE ST REET'. WELLINGTON. Aug. 9. A married woman, named Marie Clarke, of Sea ton n Heights, collapsed and in a simp in Constable Street this afternoon, dying a few moments later. MASTERTON FATALITY. MASTERTON. Aug. 9. At n n inquest to-day on George Judd, wlio was killed through a collision with a motor ear last evening, while cycling to Masterton. the Coroner returned a verdict, ol accidental death, adding that the driver ol the ear took all reasonable precautions. 11l TTER AND CHEESE FACTORY WORKERS. WELLINGTON. Aug. 10. As a result of a conference during the past lew days, steps have been! taken to register as an industrial union three thousand cheese and butter lactort assistants throughout the Dominion. The desirability of a singi'e award for New Zealand is a(liruled in place of the existing awards for separate districts. THE AFRICAN RUGBY TOUR. AY ELLINGTON, Aug. 10. It was the original intention of the New Zealand Union to despatch the team for Africa on June Bth. but in deferent e to and pressure from the African Union, it may be necessary to send it away on May 1 Ith.

SCHOONER WRECKED. ON A ELI lAN REEK. AUCKLAND. Aug. 8. The “Herald’s” Suva correspondent, writing under date July 29th, states: The auxiliary schooner Greybound was wrecked on a reel about twelve miles from Suva last: Tuesday night. In spite ol hopes ol refloating, slio has been abandoned to the underwriters, Morris, lledstrom. Ltd.. w7io, it is understood, have partly reinsured the hull with the Pacific Company. The Greyhound is the property of the Fiji Shipping Company, and was one of the most popular vessels in the Island trade, being a fine sea boat, and mostcomfortable to travel in. She was coming to Suva with a cargo ol 7o tons of copra, in tended to be shipped by the Sierra to San Francisco. She ran on to the reef on Tuesday night ai Nasaota. between Xaselai Light and Suva. The passengers Were safely got into a launch and brought to Suva, but so far the cargo is on board, and as the vessel is full of water it is soaked with sea-water. M.M.S. Laburnum went round to the scene on Wednesday night, in the hope that the Greyhound might- be refloated, but if was found that- the seas bad thrown her well uj> on the reef, and that she bad a big bole in her bottom. The warship then returned to port.

The Greyhound, an auxiliary schooner of 103 tons, was formerly well known in Auckland waters. She was huilt by Messrs Lane and Sons at Whangarei ill I SOP. and for some years was owned by Captain Suhrit/.kv, oi Auckland, who employed her in the Hokianga trade. She- was afterwards sold to the Northern Steamship Company, who continued to use the vessel on the Hokianga run. Subseqeuntly the Greyhemr.d was purchased hy the 1' iji Shipping Company. She was equipped wiih a liO-horse power oil-engine.

A WELLINGTON PROTEST. WELLINGTON. Aug. 9. 'l'he member': of the Wellington School Committees’ Association on a majority vote decided against the introduction of Bible reading in schools. There was some lively, and at times heated discussion, and it was ultimately decided hy twelve votes to eight that the Vigilance Committee which was set tip to watch matters of educational interests coming before Parliament should register the Association's protest before the Religious Exercises in .Schools Bill i s dealt with in the House this session. TREE PLANTING. WELLINGTON. Aug. 9. Notice has been given hy Mr Burnett. to ask the Commissioner ol .State Forests, whether he will take into favourable consideration a completion of the present tree planting operations of his Department, in North Canterbury. and the transfer of operations to South Canterbury, as reafforestation is still in its experimental stage in the Dominion. Mr Burnett said that bigscale tree planting by the Forestry Department would give a decided impetus to similar efforts by local bodies and private landowners in South Canterbury.

THEFTS FROM GARAGE. NEW PLYMOUTH. Aug. 9. Norman Oliver Andrews, for breaking and entering motor garage premises at Opukaka. with intent to commit a crime, was sentenced to tv, o vents reformative detention.

Sums of money lmd been disappeaiing from the garage office for some time, and a plot laid by the police only succeeded after a nightly watch Jiiui beqn kept for a long time. Andrews was caught on the premises.

MEASLEs EPIDEMIC. WELLINGTON, Aug. 0

Measles have been epidemic in a mild form throughout the Wellington Provincial District, and generally throughout most parts of the Dominion tor the past two months. It is not a notifiable disease (but the above information is gleaned from medical men. who report that in general the measles arc mild.

Last week, however, in a girls’ hoarding school in the Wellington district, the disease showed a more virulent form. Full precautions have been taken and the school i.s closed.

CRUELTY TO A WIFE. HAMILTON, Aug. 9. Seven days’ imprisonment- was meted out by Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., (o-day, to Robert Samuel Midgley, charged with, assaulting his wile. The police stated that they were called up at lit p.m. by neighbours, and warned the accused; and they were later summoned at midnight, when thev found accused had been cruelly treating his wife, who was bleeding from her iaee. The Magistrate commented scathingly on Midgley’s cowardly conduct.

BETTERMENT OF NEW ZEALAND DAIRY EXPORTS. AUCKLAND. Aug. 8.

A new Company, entitled Amalgamated Dairies, l.td. was registered today. with a capital ol £IO,OOO, subscribed as follows: New Zealand Cooperative Dairy Cov. 20,000 shares: William Goodfellow, 1009; J. PWright. SO;);, Win. Goodfellow (staff shares), 2000. Mr Goodfellow states that- the Company lias been formed for the express purpose of undertaking the supervision of sales of dairy produce in tin l United Kingdom and for the marketing of both butler and cheese in all other countries where f.c.b. or e.i.f. sales had to be made; in short, the Amalgamated Dairies. Ltd., would endeavour by voluntary means to accomplish work on beball of the industry which the Dairy Control Board bad failed to do by absolute control. An agreement had been entered into by the Amalgamated Dairies, Ltd. witli the X.Z. Co-opera-tive Dairy Coy. Ltd. to market an exportable dairy products nianulaeturcd by that concern for a period of five years, and other Co-operative Dairy Companies would in luture bate Hie same marketing opportunities.

It was proposed to make year to year agreements with factories, and to pool the dairy produce with that ol the X.Z. Co-operative Dairy Coy. ship f or ship, and grade for grade. Facilities would also be given to factories to make f.o.b. or e.i.f. sales, without financial commitments.

COMPENSATION CLAIM. BLENHEIM, Aug. 9

\ special sitting of the Compensation Court was held in Blenheim, to bear the claim for compensation against the Wairau River Board. The first case is one in which Noel Baton, or ‘‘llaxelmere.” Springlands. is claiming compensation for lands alleged to Have been injuriously affectecb as the result of the Board raising the height of an existing stop bank oil a certain part of his property, and erecting a new bank on another pavt of the property. In all, claimant asks for £570 15s damages, under the following headings: £B2 10s for alleged deprivation of the use of lands on which the hanks constructed (2 roods JO perches at £l2O per acre), £l9< 10s for severance of main part ol land from the portion left between the stop banks and stream (2 acres 1 rood So perches, at £BO per acre). £45 Ins for soil scooped out, of claimant’s land t„ form banks. £SO for alleged deprivation of access to water and water ri.dits, £BO for alleged injurious effect of stop hanks on a portion ol his I iUU I. £ls for alleged damage to fences and gates, and £IOO compensation for alleged loss through the Board’s work of prospective sale of half an acre of land lit £IOO. The defence was that the Board s works had not injuriously affected claimant, and that even if they had, claimant lmd received such betterment as the result of the works, as to more than compensate him for any damage done. . ... Judge Ostler reserved judgment till the morning.

A SAI) ACC IDENT. DUNEDIN, Aug. 10. L:ist evening Charles Frances Jopson, S, running across King Street, 'collided with a cyclist. The child Was aide to walk home, hut two hours later head pains set in and the child was rushed to the hospital hut died shortly after admission, from haemorrhage ol the drain.