DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1927, Page 4

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) MOUNT COOK THREE CUDES REACH THE SUMMIT. TTMAIiU, Dec. 20. Mount Click was t-limbed on Meti,j;iafternoon by Guidos A.. lLustad, Wiliams an! .1. Pope the trio from the Hermitage taking three days Tlk- guides left the Hermitage at jO.HO a.m. on Sunday ami arrived at the Haast hut that night. The ascent aas i uiiinuiiced on Monday. the

-■limbers using erainp-ons attached to their imots to negotiate the rock fares Thc\ canard skis and left them .at the l’ (;( it oi t lie s«iininil rocks. The rocks more in excellent condition, and they elinihed to the top of th" 1 ll:> 11 11 1!i with the aid of tlio crai:i;i-oiis.

Mount Cook was enveloped in a, knee cloud when the climhors reached the summit, and snow was falling. ip.ee staved at the top of the mountain lor about twenty minutes. The ~ 1. : .d lifts I before the party set out ~n th.. return journey and they obtained an excellent view.

()a their way hack they recovered the skis and used them on some of the Mr. a;. The guides were laced with considerable difficulty when th«v reached n .xchrtmd. a wide gap in the ice some distance down the mountain. They had previously crossed it by means of an ice bridge, but the bridge had collapsed and they spent two hours going around the top oi the schrimd. The Hermitage was reached at t. 1 .*> p.m. to-day. the journey occupying three days instead oi the l usual four.

Yesterday’s ascent ol Mount t *).>,< was the first since Messrs Porter and Kurtz, of the Alpine Club. England, reached the summit late in Tebruar.v last year. The three guides attempted the oh mb last week, hut were driven hack by a hail storm, and the second attempt was made in spite ol the opinion of climhors that under present conditions it was too dangerous PRICE OF BUTTER. AUCKLAND. Dec. 20. Retail butter prices will he reduced one penny to Is 7d for first grade, and iwoptnee to Is nd for second grade from to-morrow.

NEW REGULATIONS. WEIGHTS AND .MEASURES. WELLINGTON, Dec. 21. Under a recent weights and measures regulation, from January 10th. it is a punishable oflicnce for anv person to sell by package, the following articles in any quantities other than one ounce, two ounces, four ounces, six ounces, eight ounces, twelve ounces, cue pound, one and n-lialf pounds, or multiples of a pound net avoirdupois weight, one fluid ounce, two 11 uid ounces, half a gill, one gill, half pint, one pint, one and a half pints, one quart, half a gallon, one gallon, or' multiples of a gallon, net measure:—Sugar, coffee, coffee and chicory, cocoa and cocoa powder, chocolate powder, treacle and golden syrup, pepper, mustard, black Japan (including substitutes) candles, nails other than fancy nails, including clout nails, staples. Oriels, panel pins and gimp pins, tobacco, turpentine- (including mineral substitutes), varni-h (including mineral substitutes), varnish (including varnish stains and lacquer. The regulations will apply to paints after Ju.lv 101 li.

The provisions shall not apply to any article weighed or measured in the presence of the purchaser, and where tile weight or measure is that asked for. 'They shall not apply to any article sold in a hot tie except in Hie case of milk.

APPLICATION' K''lK EXEMPTION;. OLSRORXE. Doc. 21. The Poverty Buy Power Hoard applied to t'io ArHitralioii Court to-day for exemption from the provision-, of the Ni.; thorn Industrial Union ICectrifiil Workers’ Award, having heen cited to he joined as :i parly by the Am-k----hmd Electric Workers’ Piilimi. Mr O’Lenrv appeared lor the Cnioi:. fine! Air W. !!. Westhrooke for the employers’ Asso'-iahioti Seorefiirv, and .Mr K. H. Hall (chairman of the Power Hoard) appeared Tor the Hoard, The Court told the applicant, plainly that they could not hope to oh!air. exemption from the award. The f|iiestinn of hours was discussed at length, the Union wanting the award hours of eight end a-ltalf per day. while a Hoard asked for nine hours. Air Ball stating'that this was a ref) nest front the workers concerned. After discussion, the Court left the question of hours to he decided hy a meeting of the men concerned, to he held the first week in .January, the local Labour officer to preside, and at which the Hoard and Union will have representatives present.

HUTT HIVE It TRAGEDY. WELLINGTON. Pec. 21. At the inquest into the death of Alexander Osborne, married, of Lower Halt, whose body was recovered yesterday from the Unit River, the verdict was suicide while in a state of mental depression. Deceased had heen in ill-health for some time. GASWORKS FATALITY. W ELI lIX 0 TON, Pee. 21. At the inquest on Thomas Shanahan, single. -13. who was severely burnt at the retort house at the Gasworks on December Bth., dying ten days later, a verdict was returned that- deceased died from heart failure following extensive burns accidentally received. From evidence, the Coroner said, it seemed ordinary precautions had been followed and that it was one of those accidents which happen so suddenly there is no edianee of preventing them. .CRUSHED 1!Y TRUCK. CHRISTCHURCH. Pee. 21. During shunting operations at Parfield Station, about 10 a.m. to-day. C. \ AAilenx, of Montreal Street. Christ-, church, had his thigh (rushed hy a truck. He was brought to Christchurch Hospital. Tlis condition is reported to he saiisfactorv.