DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 July 1928, Page 1

DOMINION NEWS.

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OVERLOADED LORRIES. OPOTIKI, July 1

A practice which is apparently prevalent throughout the Dominion was disclosed at a meeting of the Opotiki Borough Council. It appears that owners of lorries, who pay heavy license fees oil lorries supposed to carry only certain weights, put loads on vehicles far in excess of the weight the vehicles are taxed for, and l>y this means owners are able to make a considerable saying. As new vehicles appear to carry these excessive loads without apparent injury, it would appear that the carrying capacity of lorries' generally is greatly under-rat-ed. Lorries up to a certain capacity also are supposed to he confined to specified classes of roads and low grade roads suffer considerably as the result of overloads passing over them. The Opotiki Council decided to instruct its inspector to check loads carried on heavy motor vehicles.

CURING LEPROSY. INJECTION OF AN OIL. WELLINGTON, June 28. The new cure for leprosy discovered by British scientists led by Sir Leonard Rodgers has so far produced marvellous results, and if the disease is attacked in the early stages cures are effected in from six to eight months, declared the Rev. R. J. Grundy, who with Mrs Grundy is touring New Zealand in the interests of she Leper Mission.

Over <IOO people have been discharged cured from the asylums of India under the Leper Mission’s control since the introduction of the- new treatment.

Mr Grundy said the new cure is administered by the injection of the derivatives of chaulmoogra oil. More recent developments of the treatment consist of injections of the pure oil. hut it is not yet certain whether the pure oil or eth.vlesters is the more effective. Experiments with both are being carried out. at the present time in the leper homes of the mission, and patients are now being discharged cured every month.

Sir Leonard Rodgers is a member of the executive and of the council of the mission. His opinion, stated in writing to Mr Grundy, is that the new specific is one of the medical discoveries of the age, curing a disease that has baffled doctors for hundreds of years.

CUSTOMS REDUCTIONS. WELLINGTON, July 1. The remissions in duty made in the revision of the Customs tariff last year come into effective operation on Monday morning. Certain necessary commodities in everyday vise benefit by the reductions. There will he no duty on a number of articles of British manufacture, including gramophones, and such household lines as floor coverings, silk piece goods, chinawnre and household linen. The removal of the duty on galvanised corrugated sheet iron of British origin is expected to he a factor in reducing the cost of home building. It is understood that in respect of macaroni, cement, etc., manufactured in Australia, the rates previously in force will continue to apply. In connection with the announcement recently made that the Australian Government had increased the duty on butter and cheese it is of interest to note that the duties imposed by New Zealand on certain articles manufactured in Australia, liavo been as from Monday made the same as the rates applying to goods from other British countries. Among the goods affected are the following: Biscuits 20 per cent, confectionery 25 per cent, egg pulp and white or yoke of eggs 25 per cent ad valorem or Td a lb, whichever rate is the higher, bottles and jars, empty plain glass, 20 per cent and -15 per cent according to kind sawn dressed timber 7s Gd per 100 super feet, crown seals 20 per coni.

SAWMILL FATALITY. NELSON, July 2. Charles William Barlow died in hospital at Wakefield, as the result of injuries received at a sawmill. Deceased was hit in the stomach by a piece of timber, which became pinched in the tail of a saw. and was thrown hack on him. A verdic of accidental death was returned.

MOTOR CYCLISTS'S DEATH. CHRISTCHURCH. July 2. ‘‘This is another case—they are all too frequent—of the excessive speed leading to an accident. This young man's death was entirely due to the speed at which he was travelling and to his vision being affected by the sun.'’ The foregoing comment was made by the Coroner at the conclusion of an inquest into the. death of George Jonathan Pine, a young motor cyclist, who died after he had collided with a motor lorry on the Rieearum Road on June 25. After the collision the motor cycle petrol tank fired and Pine suffered terrible injuries from burns; also a fractured skull and other severe hurts. Mr Mosley added that Pine must have been travelling at forty miles an hour at least.

FINED £ls. AUCKLAND, July 2. Said to lie operating in a small way, Frederick Gordon Pencil, aged 32, butcher, pleaded guilty in the Police Court to-day to a charge of carrying on the business of a bookmaker. Chief Detective Hammond said that the accused was not a bookmaker in the real sense. He endeavoured to increase his income by betting with customers who visited his simp. A fine of £ls was imposed.

SELECTION BALLOT. INVERCARGILL, July 2. The ballot for the selection of the Labour candidate to contest the Awania seat resulted as follows : AY. C. Denham 91 X. C. Mclntyre 99 Five votes in favour of Mr Mclntyre wore received too late for inclusion in bis total.

HOCKEY. AUCKLAND, July 3. ■ A meeting of managers of the ladies’ teams competing in the Auckland Provincial Hockey Cup Tourney, decided not to send teams to the New Zealand Tourney at Titnaru in August, but to meet associations which desired matches.

MEAT BOARD. WELLINGTON, July 2. The Returning Officer announces that he hhs ’received the following nominations for the two vacancies for produ-

cers’ representatives oil the New Zealand . Meat Producers’ Board: It. S. Chadwick, Daunevirkc; J. 0. Coop, Ataalnia, Little River; C. D. Dickie, Hawera; T. A. Duncan, Ilunterville (sitting member) ; Adam Hamilton, Invercargill (sitting member) ; William Morrison Maxwell, Wanganui; Robert Latter, New Brighton, Christchurch. The election will take place on 30th August.

N.Z. ATHLETES. WELLINGTON, July 2. The Council of the N.Z.A.A.A. met to-night. Mr 11. Amos, manager of the N.Z. Olympic Team is to he requested to approach prominent athletes with a view to seeing whether any are available for a possible tour of the Dominion next summer, but it was said the soundings were not to be taken as Unding the N.Z. Council. The Council had mainly in mind a visit from an English or American team.

An invitation to .Miss N. Wilson and S. Lay to visit South Africa lias been received from Capetown, blit the manager of the team is to report to the Council before anything definite is done.

Tlie need for statistics of contestants in athletic events was stressed, to see whether athletic in New land was going ahead or not. A notice of motion was given to the effect that each club on the date of its annual meeting should forward to its centre a list of registrations so that athletics generally could he strengthened throughout the country.

TRAIN ATTENDANTS. . WELLINGTON, July 2.

In accordance with a recent decision of the General Manager of Railways, uniformed attendants have been attached to the express trains of the North Island, for the comfort and convenience of passengers; and a similar service will be arranged for the Clirist-ehureh-lnvercargill line in the near future.

The new attendants are responsible for the tidiness and cleanliness of carriages and equipment, including lavatories, anil their assistance is also available for passengers, particularly women, children and elderly men entering or leaving the trains, or requiring refreshments during a journey.

In explaining that this innovation is necessitated by the development of long-distance travelling, Mr Sterling expresses his confidence that the expenditure will be well justified by results.

C.M.S. HOSPITAL. NELSON, July 2. The Secretary of the Church Missionary Society has received a cable from Hangchow stating that the Society’s hospital lias been handed back by the National Government, after being in its possession for about a

The hospital will require extensive repairs before being again ready for use. The Society is recalling nil missionaries, doctors and other members of the staff who had to leave owing to the disturbed conditions prevailing in China.

GIRL CYCLIST INJURED.

OAMARU, July 2

At 5.30 this evening, Ada Carlyle, aged If), was cycling homeward on the Main North Road, when she was run into by a motor-car, driven by a man named Arnold, of Tiniaru. She was unconscious and conveyed to the hospital, suffering from severe concussion.

The driver’s statement to the police was to the effect, that the girl was cycling without lights behind another car, and swerved into the centre of the road unobserved by Arnold, who was travelling in the opposite direction. The girl had not recovered consciousness at a late hour.

BAPTIST honour. WELLINGTON, July 3. A cable has been received from the Baptist Conference, Toronto, that the degree of Doctor of Divinity has been conferred by McMaster University on Rev. J. J.. North, principal ot the New Zealand Baptist College.