DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1928, Page 1

DOMINION NEWS.

By Telegraph—P.er Press Association.)

DISPUTE ON S.S. KANNA. ' DUNEDIN, June 26. Trouble with several members of the stokehold'crew of the Union Coy’s cargo steamer Ivanna resulted in the vessel being held up at Dunedin last night. It is stated that there was some hitch between certain members of the stokehold crew and the ship’s officers while the Ivanna was at Bluff last week. The Ivanna arrived at Dunedin on Sunday -morning, and was ready to sail last night for Napier and Gisborne, but it is stated that a number of stokehold hands refused to accompany the ship because they had been “logged” for some alleged offence, said to have been committed

at Bluff. Late last night all the members of the Ivanna’s crew were given 24 hours’ notice of the termination of their services. 1 '

The men concerned in the dispute

held several conferences with the Union Cov officials to-day. No settlement Was 'reached; The men intimated that they had no desire to retain their berths.

! The Union Coy then decided to pay off' the stokehold section of the crow and this was carried into effect during the afternoon. ‘ An effort will be made to secure the necessary men.to fill the vacancies tomorrow morning, and if no further hitch l occurs the Ivanna will be dispatched on her northern trip to-mor-rowv ■ ' " ’ :

1851 SCHOLARSHIP. AUCKLAND, June 26. The 1851 Scholarship;' one of the

highest honours that can be gained by students of science in New Zealand. has beeri awarded this year to Air ‘W. A. Macky, Assistant to Professor Burbridge. of the Physics Department’ of Auckland University College. The first choice made by the

Board of Examiners in England was Air J. C. Andrews’, of Auckland, but owing to private reasons, lie was unable to accept the scholarship. The next selection was Air -Macky. Lndcr the terms of the 1 scholarship, the winner can carry on scientific research in any recognised institution in the world. It is tenable* for two years’and it is valued at £250 a year. All* Macky intends to proceed to England in-a month or two, and will enter Cairns College, Cambridge, where lie will study in the Cavendish Laboratory under the famous New Zehlander, Sir Ernest Rutherford, who was also •an 1851 Scholarship holder.' FOUND DEAD. • • . GORE, June 27. Edward Afoar, single, aged 28, a farmhand, whose parents are residing in Irtvercargill, was found dead in his bedroom at an Otnma farmhouse, near I Gore, with a bullet wound in his fpreliead) apt! a pea rifle lying alongside.