DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 October 1929, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

MOTOR CYCLE RACES. [By Telegraph, Per Press Association.] PALMERSTON NORTH, Oct. 29. At Foxton United Sports Association annual motor cycle race meeting at Foxton, the Manawatu Championship, of seven laps, resulted: Tui Morgan (25secs.) first, J. R. S. Penniel (30 secs.) second, and P. Coleman (scratch) third; time 7.17 2-5. Morgan leaped to the front in the fourth round and was never challenged, winning by about five hundred yards. A RESOLUTION. AUCKLAND, Oct. 29. A resolution expressing grave concern at the refusal of the Arbitration Court to grant an award to the South Auckland Forestry Workers’ -Union, lias been adopted by members of the union. It refers to the decision as remarkable and unjustly, and requests the Alliance of Labour to protest Vo the Prime Minister, and Minister of Labour. ' lii giving the judgment of the Court, Judge Fraser said there was no evidence of a genuine dispute within the meaning of the Act. MOTOR CYCLIST KILLED. FOXTON, Oct. 29. Harold Wadsworth, - a porter, employed at Thorndon railway station, Wellington, was killed on the road between Foxton -and Saneon. He was riding a motor cycle with a man on the pilli-on behind him, and when passing a motor car was struck by the running board and killed. Wadsworth .was single, with no relatives in New Zealand. He resided at No. 19, Glenberrie Terrace, Wellington, and prior tp: joining the railway service, resided at Northcape, at Albert Rd., Oneliunga. His parents reside at Goole, Yorkshire, England. He is 21 years old.

A CENTENARIAN. ASHBURTON, Oct/ 29. Mrs Sarah Trazise celebrated her 10.1 th. birthday to-day. Born at Croydon, England, she married Alfred Blackburn in 1854, coming with him to Zealand in 1863 in the ship Metropolis. Mr Blackburn died in 1906 and in -1909 his widow married Mr John Trazise, who died two years later. Mrs Trazise has two daughters, Mrs T. E. Barnard of Sydney, and Mrs Ritchie, and three sons, A. H. Blackburn, Wellington, C. Blackburn, Gisborne. There are 17 grandchildren and 23 great grand-children. Mrs Trazise retails all her facilities, and takes a keen interest in affairs. : VALUELESS CHEQUES. TE AROHA, October 29. Charles Mozart Spinley, with sever'd! aliases pleaded guilty before Justices at Te Aroha to-day tp. having issued a valueless cheque for £8 10s. Accused was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. He is already serving sentence on a similar charge committed at Rotorua end Cambridge. Two further cliarges. will be heard against him at Hamilton to-morrow.

INJURED BY CAR. 'j HAMILTON, October .>9. James George Harp, aged 50, a Hamilton business man, was very seriously injured when his car skidded in loose sand near Horahoija power station. Harp was pinned beneath the car and his chest severely crushed. He was. brought to Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, last night. There is little hope of his recovery. Two passengers in the car with Harp escaped serious injury. MAN DROWNED. WHANGAREI, October 29. R. H. Bretnall, 27, was drowned at Ruakaka beach, yesterday, when swim ming beyond the breakers. Deceased was a talented violinist. He came from Auckland where the family reside, and was engaged at the pictures orchestra and practised as a music teacher. He was also organist at the Presbyterian Church and was heard on the air when he plaevd violin solos at the band concert broadcast.

plane arrives. CHRISTCHURCH, October 29. A Simmonds-Girrus plane piloted by Captain White of the Hawke’s Bay Aero Club arrived at Wigrani early this afternoon. The ’plane left Blenheim about six but owing to bad visibility landed at Mendip Hills, North Canterbury, resuming the journey at eleven. The pilot, will go on to Dunedin to-morrow. AN APPOINTMENT. CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 30. ' Dr Win. Sadler, now of St. Andrew’s University-,' Scotland, lias been appointed to the Chair*of Mathematics at Canterbury College. PUBLIC SERVANTS. f||‘ WANGANUI, Oct. 29. At a meeting of the Eastown branch of the Amalgamated Society of railway servants, the following resolution was passer]: “That this branch views with disgust and dismay the action of the Government in its non-restoration of the cuts in the wa«es of the members of the Second Division of the Railway Service, especially in view of the fact that the First Division, by means of annual increments and regrading, already have received hack more than they lost hv the cuts.