DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1930, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

HUGE OIL TANKER. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Jan. 27. The huge oil tanker Australia, the largest motor propelled oil tanker afloat, arrived yesterday with 2,275,'000 gallons of petrol for discharge into the Texas Oil Company’s storage tanks at Auckland, Wellington, and Dunedin. She is the largest vessel in the world carrying refined oil, her tanks having a total capacity of -.5 : - 145(000 gallons, or 18,800 tons. From, bridge to engine room the Australia is a mass of complicated mechanism designed to promote the maximum of efficiency. Elaborate precautions have bean taken to prevent anything in the nature of fire. WELL INGTON J ÜBILEE WELLINGTON, Jan. 29. The jubilee of Wellington Harbour Board was formally celebrated yesterday, with a harbour excursion and luncheon on Somes Island, at which about 500 guests were present. Congratulatory telegrams were received fi # oin all parts of the Dominion and eulogistic speeches were delivered by prominent speakers including Mr Wynward (Chairman of Auckland Harbour Board, representing the Harbours Assn, of New Zealand). The Board was by Act constituted on Ist. January, 1880. HOUSE: BURN?. GISBORNE, Jan. 29. A seven-roomed house on Wainui Beach, owned by Lady Carroll, and occupied by W. Carroll, was destroyed by fire totally this morning.

CHILD DIES OF SCALDING. CHRISTCHURCH, January 28. The deatli occurred at the Hospital this morning of a little boy, John McLaughlin, as the result of scalds received when he fell into a preserving pan of boiling jam on January 7th The parents reside in Christchurch. ANOTHER SAMOAN DIES OF WOUNDS. WELLINGTON, January 28. The Prime Minister'has received advice for the Administrator of Samoa stating that it is regretted that the Samoan who recently was wounded by the police has expired/ and that the circumstances of this fatality will off course lie fully inquired into at an inquest. INQUEST VERDICT. Advice has been received by the Prime Minister from the Administrator cif Western Samoa that the verdict of the inquests on the fatalities... of the 28th December has not yet been delivered, but will probably he—available to-morrow. MOTOR CYCLE FATALITY. AUCKLAND, Jan. 29. Fatal injuries were sustained by a motor cyclist, George McLean, aged 46, married, of Mokoia Road, Birkenhead, when his machine collided in that road last evening with a light motor van driven by Henry Doles, storekeeper of Birkenhead. The accident occurred during heavy rain, visibility being very poor. George Rushbridge in a sidecar of McLean’s cycle escaped injury as did Doles.