DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 October 1929, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

ARBITRATION COURT DECISION (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.; AUCKLAND, Oct. 23. The Arbitration Court has given its decision in the Auckland Abattoir Assistants’ dispute. The killing rates on mutton; lamh and pigs formed the only matter referred to the Court. A majority of the court has decided that the Union’s claim for an increase has not been justified. Mr A. L. Monteith, the Union’s representative, gives a dissenting judgment. ASSAULT CHARGES. HAMILTON, October 23. At the Magistrate’s Court, William James Huxtable was fined £2 on a charge of common assault. A similar charge against James Douglas McKay was dismissed. The defendants were members of the Wellington Rugby team who played here last month. The charges arose out of an incident with a waitress at dinner in their hotel on the evening of the game.

STEAMER ASHORE, , GISBORNE, October 24. ' A heavy southerly gale sprang up during the night and the Union Company’s steamer Kahika from southern ports was driven ashore on Wakanae Beach about 5 a.m. The crew landed safely. FURTHER PARTICULARS. GISBORNE, October 24. The Kahika lies head on to a sandy beach on an even keel with heavy brakers thumping astern. Since coming ashore she has drifted 100 yards towards the breakwater. The crew landed in the ship’s boat. The captain is remaining aboard. The weather in the roadstead is too rough for an attempt at salvage to be made to-day.

TEST OF MALINGERING. A SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT. AUCKLAND, October 22. The psychogalvanometer, which re-, gisters all bodily sensations, is the latest scientific apparatus to he used in Australian hospitals, and demon sir”thins were . £*iven at the recent Medical Congress at Sydney.

Dr J. Collins, of Invercargill, who returned by the Marama to-day, stated that he attended the neurological and surgical section of the congress and was greatly impressed by the thorough organisation and the work at the clinics. He is of opinion that the new instrument will be invaluable when compensation cases are under consideration, as the psychogalvanometer will show;..whether a patient is malingering. ‘ J This instrument, . said Dr Collins, will give a true test.

RACES POSTPONED. GISBORNE, October 24. • As a consequence of the wet and boisterous weather the Poverty Bay Turf Club’s races have been postponed until to-morrow. TRAMP STEAMER SAILS. CHRISTCHURCH, Oct, 24. The tramp steamer Lawbeath, saijed for Port Chalmers last evening after being held up at Lyttelton for nearly a fortnight through trouble with the crew. Five members of the original crew are in Paparua Gaol, and the remainder are on the ship.