DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 February 1930, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

LABOUR DISUN lON. : |By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) 1 AUCKLAND, Feb. 21. The Auckland Trades and Labour Council resolved to circularise all trades unions in reference to the selection of a labour delegate to the Geneva Conference. Seeing that the Alliance of Labour does not represent twenty per cent of Now Zealand unions, repudiating its claim to alone nominate the delegate and suggesting that all. nominations by various organisations are entitled to considei ation, and it is desirable that all unions refuse to be influenced in the matter of selection until all nominations have been submitted to them. It is further denied that J. Roberts was chosen as leader by Labour delegates at the Economic Conference and asserts he was appointed chairman of the council. It recommends the men that the selection bo by method of election contained in the Arbitration Act for appointment of workers representative.

WOOL BOYCOTT. ■ CHRISTCHURCH. Feb. 21. ■ln accordance with a decision made earlier in the week, a. meeting of the New Zealand Wool Brokers’ Association was held at Christchurch to-daj to consider the wool sales deadlock. The President, Mr Brydon, said tonight thkt there was nothing to report. He added that some finality might "be reached to-morrow. . . ‘ . FALSE FIRE ALARMS. •v: • WAIHI, Feb. 21. Four young men, charged at the Police Court, with wilfully giving a false fire alarm, were convicted and fined £lO each, or one month’s imprisonment. Tho Bench emphasised seriousness of the offence and refused counsel’s application for the suppression of the names and for time to pay the fines. FALSE INCOME TAX returns. DUNEDIN, Feb. 21. In the Police Court this afternoon, Leon Curtis, licensee of Mcßride s .Hotel, Queenstown, was found guilty on five counts of wilfully making false income tax returns. On the first charge he was fined £SO and on each of the other four lie was fined £3O with costs 10s, and solicitor’s fee £3 3s:- Five charges of negligently making false returns were withdrawn. WE EL I NGTON CASES. WELLINGTON, Feb. 21. At the Magistrate’s Court to-day, a watersider named William George Reed, was fined £lO for theft of two pjpjrs of ladies’ knickers, valued at 6s, the property of the Shaw, Savill and Albion C 0.,. Ltd., Andrew Anderson.., licensed carrier, who' was found iii tin intoxicated state while at the wheel-oi his lorry, was fined £2O. He admitted having had six drinks. * AN INFANT’S DEATH. DUNEDIN, Feb. 21. A distressing fatality occurred at Rosivn this morning, when Patricia Valerie McDonald, aged 3 years, inadvertantly strangled herself with a window cord. The little girl, wiio u.is the daughter of Mr Frederick John McDonald, 50, Chapman Street, was put down in a single bed by her mother at 10.15 for her morning sleep. When the mother went back to get her up for dinner, about two hours later, she found the child hanging with her head through a window cord, and her toes about 4 inches off the floor. Dr Strain, who was called in, could only ptonounce, life extinct.