DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 March 1930, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

STOP WORK .EXPLAINED

By Telegraph—Per Press AssociationJ

WELLINGTON, .March 7

In a, statement explaining the stop work meeting was vailed owing, to the unsatisfactory nature of the reply of the Department to the men’.-, representations regarding their renditions, Mr Cook, Secretary of the New Zealand Workers’ Union, says to safeguard against water rising in the tunnel during the meeting, till necessary nien such as pump men and electricians were notified they should continue working. It was not a strike hut just a matter of convenience so that all the men could attend.

PRESBYTERIAN ABBEMBUY

DUNEDIN, March 7

At the Presbyterian Assembly at the Theological Jiall the committee's recommendation that Rev. J. Collie, of Queenstown, take the chair of New Testament studies was unanimously adopted.

‘-SUPREME COURT

DUNEDIN, March 7

Justice Kennedy sentenced the following prisoners: Robert Abercrombie Brown, theft from Petrous Tile Coy., of which lie was accountant, three years hard. Henry Ernest Foote, breaking, entering and theft, three years hard. .There were forty previous convictions of various offences. The Judge said tlic prisoner had been progressively anti-social in his attitude. His family lost nothing through his loss oi liberty. They were belter without him.

SECRETARY FOR SAMOA

WELLINGTON, March 4

The Prime Minister announced today the apointment of Mr A. C. Turnbull, secretary of the Public Service Commissioner’s office, as secretary to the Administration in Western Samoa in suceess-'on to Mr G. IV. Clinknrd who was recently appointed seer-mi-/ of the Department of Industries :nd Commerce. Tt is understood that Mr Turnbull will leave for Apai tiv in dv file end of this month, and that Mr (Tinkard will arrive in New Zealand about the middle of April. Mr Turnbull was appointed to ) a clerical cadetship in the Lands and Se-vey Department on January fil’d, 1899, and he remained in that Department until May Ist 1919, when h° we appointed secretary to the Public Service Commissioner, a position wli-eh he has held ever since. Prior to mining the Public Service Corninissnnm ’s ..Office, Mr Turnbi I .'! was liis.ve.-■ >r 1 Offices in the Head O.'fice of the Lands and Survey Department., and In also served with the IjNped Fiona ry force frriri 1916' to 1919. - "

F/LEE BRETEXCFS

AUCKLAND, March 7

TV-.ryibrd by his counsel as an excellent soldier hut a rotten civilian, llnerv Hay Vercoo, 48, a half caste Maori was to-day sentenced by Magistrate Hunt to six months gaol, to he followed by twelve months reformative on e»"ht charges of ahlaining CMP by valueless eheoues. Vereoc served in the South African and Great War. Counsel further stated that every mornihF. Mi- Tele, the incoming President oif. the Law Society, informed him that Vorcoe was the bravest man he ever saw at. the front and he had recommended him for the Victoria Cross. lie <»whod 2.000 acres of land and was 1o have received C3OO from the Native !.iip ,i: Court, hut reeeiil.lv tlie inat.er was held no by some proebuonti in. He was convicted of false pieteuies in 1912, 1922 and 1928.