DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 November 1928, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

AUCKLAND TRANSPORT

(By Telegraph—Press Association)

AUCKLAND, Oct. 31

Polls were taken in the city and .suburbs to-day to determine whether the Transport Board should take control of the City Council’s transport system. The results were:—

City Poll—For 2.866; against, 631. Suburban Polls- For -1.02-1; against 737.

Majorities being secured in each in.slance, a Board will now be set up in accordance with the Auckland Transport Board Act passed by Parliament last session.

BIG LOAN VOTED. CHRISTCHURCH. Oct. 31

The ratepayers in the special loan area of the Waimakariri River Trust District voted to-day on a proposal to raise a loan of £l(K>,fK)o for improved (load control measures on the bed and banks of the Waimakariri. including two cubs to shorten the lower reaches of tin l river. The proposal was carried by 3,465 voles to 2.806. The votes recordable were 36.531.

A SUICIDE. TIM A H IT, October 31

Arthur Lewis Finch, single, aged 10, was found dead in a bach a. Hie rear of a dwelling house, with a gas ring under his chin, and a blanket over his head.

RECORD TRIP. WELLINGTON. Nov. 1

fill aw Savill turbine liner. Mature,-v. which arrived at 0 lasi night made a record run of 32 days 10 hours, heating the former best by 23 hours. But for a southerly gale she would have done sfill bettor.