DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 June 1929, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

PRISONER STILL AT LARGE. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, June 11. So far no trace iias been found, nor have the police received any information regarding the whereabouts of Wilkin Rainsdou Avery, who escaped from the local gaol on Thursday morning while oii reman don charges of burglary. A LICENSE GRANTED. WHANGAREI, June 11. The Marsden Licensing Committee to-day decided to grant to Walter Henry Cuthbert a a license in respect of premises situated at Kamo Springs. Twelve years ago the hotel a.t the Springs was destroyed by fire, and the* license had not been exercised since .then. Plans for an up-to-date hotel were submitted to the Licensing Committee to-day, and a statement was made that a big spa. was to be developed. There was a. lengthy argument as to whether the committee had power to grant the license. SOUTHERN FARMER'S PRESENT . . . CUP. PALMERSTON N., June 11.. The party of Southern farmers who have just completed a tour of the North Island have given tangible manifestation of their goodwill, by presenting a fifteen guinea Cup to the Manawntii A. and P. Association as a memento of their visit. S'WISS W ATI *H AIA XU F ACT UR E It’S VISIT. AUCKLAND, June 11. “ What with strikes and general labour unrest, business • in Australia was not as good as I expected,” said Mr Paul Wyler, managing director of the Wyler watch factory, Basic. Switzerland, who arrived by the Ulimaroa this morning. Air Wyler is touring the world in the interests df Ins business. It is h s intention to establish direct agencies throughout New Zealand. “Formerly our watclibs have been sold in this country tlii'hugh English agencies,” he said. ' “ The ‘ appointment of direct agents'will'lower the price.” After a month in New Zealand, Air A\yler will leave'-for 'China, Japan, India, and Alanchuria, where the great hulk of his business is clone. “ Aifstralili was disappointing from* a business 'point dl view,” he said, “ though t • was very much impressed with the potentialities of the country itself.”' '■

, -U* >’ THROAT CUT. I ( ..t; . •_ INVERCARGILL. June 11. A report • from Queenstown states that David Richardson, aged sixtythree. of Dunedin, .camp cook at theGolden Terrace dredge, Lower- Shotover, was- found near the tool shed with his throat cut at 12.20 p.m. yesterday. He lies in a critical condition at Erankton Hospital. ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION. WELLINGTON, June 13. The Council of the Athletic Association received a request from A ictoria for a. visit from the Canadian athletes who arc coming to New Zealand next summer. It was decided to agiee, it Victoria paid one-third ol the preliminary expenses and of the fare to New Zealand and hack and also the fare froav New Zealand to Australia and hack. . • Lay’s javelin throw of 206 ieet 6 inches at Wellington on February 23rd .was passed as a New Zealand and Australian record. ST. U Y, IN AMBULANCE.WELLINGTON. June 13. V tile an u;d report for St. John . Ambulance'-''Association in New Zealand. ibe (h.'-'f Commissioner states flip, nm-a' ers’ .p has now increased to 1518, wliiio fourteen new divisions were formed during the year. Hie number of eases attended to was 28,523 against 21,629 ifor the preceding year and 16,139 for 1926. The number of cases attended on sports grounds in the various centres throughout the Dominion on Saturday, .July 21sl last, was ss. I, against-411 for the same day the previous year, which gives some indication of the Association’s activities in connection with sports bodies. DEATH FROM. ACCIDENT. OTAKT, June 13. Airs Percy Dodds, who was knocked over by a cyclist a week ago, died last night without regaining consciousness. J! OS!’ITA I, RE-OPENED. OTAKI, June 13. The Otnkr Hospital was ~ re-opened yesterday by' the \Almister of. Health. There was a good attendance. TTMAR U EXPRE&STON. TTAfARU, .Time "12. ( At a meeting convened hv the Lab- j our RciVlVsentation Committee tonight at liyhicli Air Clyde Carr. Member for Timaru, gave a pre-scssional address,, the following resolution was curried: “That this meeting of Timaru citizens expresses its intense gratification at the success of the British Lahour Party at the recent elections, and looks with hope and confidence to the efforts of the AlaeDonald Government immediately to relieve the distress and 'destitution due to unemployment, to promote international peace, and ultimately to blight both capitalism and militarism from Britain.”