DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 October 1929, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

UNEMPLOYMENT. [By Telegraph, Per Press Association.] 'DUNEDIN, October 7. Interviewed this morning, iron. W. B. Taverner stated the Premier, will have no difficulty in fulfilling his promise to end unemployment in five week as the engagement of men will commence in a few days. 111 the Railway Department most of the men taken on at this stage will be artisans. He appealed to employers to support the State, pointing out that if every employer took one man on probation, the position would he abolished and a tremendous impetus would be given business. CHURCH APPOINTMENT. BLENHEIM, October 7. .-Canon Oliver J. Kimberley, vicar of Awatere, has accepted the charge df the parish of Blenheim in succession to Venerable Archdeacon York who has also been appointed by the Bishop of Nelson as Archdeacon of Marlborough. Archdeacon Kimberley was ordained priest at Sydney in 1904 and in 1909 came to New Zealand to organise the work of the Church .Missionary Society with headquarters at Auckland. In 1922 he was appointed vicar of Awatere and in 1924 was elected Canon of Nelson Cathedral. DOMINION FARMERS’ UNION. CONFIDENCE IN PRESIDENT. STRATFORD, October 7. The Stratford .Sub-Provincial Branch of the Farmers’ Union passed the following resolution: “ In view of the expressions of no-confidence passed on the Dominion President, Mr W. J. Poison, by some branches of the Union, we feel that these were premature and Mr Poison has now vindicated his position, and we, as an executive, wish to express our entire confidence in him as Dominion President.” . DROWNED. INVERCARGILL, October 7. Johannes Hansen, aged 47, a . Norwegian engineer, .was accidentally drowned nt the whaling base at Paterson’s Inlet on Sunday morning through a dinghy capsizing. FOUND DEAD. INVERCARGILL, October 7. John Thomas Magee, aged nineteen, employed as a grocer’s assistant at Dipton, was found dead in bed on Sunday morning / and a discharged gun lying near the body. Apparently it was a suicide. ' BOY’S LUCKY ESCAPE. ASHBURTON, Oct, 7. Swept 500 yards down a deep swiftfiowing river after the capsize of a gig, and to escape though lie could not swim, was the experience of Albert George Craig Hepburn, of Methven, aged 12 years. Yesterday, with his father, he was crossing Ashburton River at Lagmhor. His father gave up hope when the boy disappeared down stream, and made his way to a farm house. He informed the police, who five hours’ later found the lad clinging to a tree, and except for being exhausted, none the worse.