DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 October 1929, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

MOTOR-CYCLIST HURT. 0 Telegraph—Press Assn., Copyright WELLINGTON, October 26. Keith Hunt, motor cyclist, was taken to the hospital in a, serious condition as the result of a collision With a motor lorry on Lambton Quay MOTOR INJURIES PEDESTRIAN. \ HAMILTON, October 27. Serious injuries were, suffered by Oscar Larsen, aged 57 ..years, of no fixed' abode, on the Cambridge road yesterday, when he was knocked down by a service car. Larsen appeared from behind another vehicle. He bad several ribs and a leg broken, and was badly shocked. His condition is serious. CONFECTIONERS’ AGREEMENT. CHRISTCHURCH, October 26. An agreement has been reached in the industrial dispute between the New 'Zealand Federated Biscuit and Confectionery Industrial Association of j Workers and the employers. The only changes from the old award were the introduction of the 45-hour week; the sedition of a condition that only the time worked should be paid for to oover possible periods of slackness, or -if; the works had to close down foi a- time for any reason, and a slight alteration to th,e preference clause. A BIG CLAIM. ; './ayi WELLINGTON, October 26. The Chief Justice, Hon Mr Myers, offer hearing legal argument, reserved his decision in the Supreme Court iuftion ir# which tlie New Zealand loan and Mercantile Agency Coy. Ltd. claims £5470 and interest at eight per cent from Wright, Stephenson and Coy Ltd, ; in respect of 5469 sacks of oats paid for by plaintiffs, but, which, it is alleged, did not conform to the. store warrants issued by the defendants. STRANDED KAHIKA. TOWING FAILS. GISBORNE, October 27. About midnight last night and again at noon to-day, the Union Company’s tug Terawhiti made attempts to pull the steamer Kahika off. the beach, .but .with no success. With the exception of two lost propellor blades, the steamer appears not to have suffered any considerable damage. She . has still .two hundred tons of produce and general cargo aboard, no attempt having yet been made to remove it. The vessel is on an even keel well up on the firm sandy beach. Tho Terawhiti is still standing by.

SCOW ASHORE. J__ ■ . AUCKLAND, October 25. . The auxiliary scow Rahiri, of thir-ty-fivb ton?;, owned by A. W. Bryant, Ltd, was driven ashore during rough weather at Chamberlain’s Island, in the Haiiraki Gulf, on Thursday morning. The billtyarks ori the starboard “s'ide were torn off and shingle which the'' vessel had loaded was washed overboard. The Rahiri was successfully towed off by a launch to-day, and was brought to Auckland to go oif .\the slip/" ’ RAILWAYMKN’S SOCIETY. REPRESENTATIONS TO PREMIER. WELLINGTON, October 26. The President and vSecreta'l7 of the Raihvaymen’s Society have sent a (telegram to the Prime Minister expressing grave disappointment 6ri the part of the railwaymen with the refusal to restore wage cuts, and have followed it'with a statement to the; effect that their claim to an increase was waived in 1924, rather ’than embarrass the then Govrenment in. a time of stress. BROKE HIS NECK. ’ CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 28. Gibbons Burke, a young man, while motor cycling yesterday collided with a motor ear ,in the . city and received in]juries to his neck and shock. He was hospitalled, his condition being serious. ' ——■■■