DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 May 1930, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

INQUEST VERDICT,

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

GISBORNE, May 15

A, verdict that death was due to •haemorrhage of .the aneurism, was returned 'by the Coroner at an inquest yesterday on Alfred Blackburn, 51, who was admitted to the hospital in a semi-conscious condition on Tuesday evening and died under an anaesthetic, three hours later.

MARRIED WOMEN TEACHERS. WELLINGTON, May 15

A suggestion that married women teachers should not be given appointments so as to relieve the unemployed problem in the profession received r.o support from the annual conference of the New Zealand Educational Institute.

Miss Finlayson (North Canterbury) declared if married women were only going to bold a position when they were necessitious, they would be reducing themselves to a state of accepting charity. Miss K. B. Turner (North Canteribury) supported her colleague and claimed that if married teachers were to be barred in order to relieve the unemployment problem because their husbands were earning and should be aide to keep them, they might as well carry out the argument to its logical conclusion. Then they should do away with the services of all l ion teachers, who had private incomes or who had wives with private means. A remit that, in the appointment of women teachers, married or single, the Institute stood for the principle of efficiency as shown,toy the grading, list, was carried.

SLY GROGGING FINE. MASTER TON, May 15

At the Court this morning, Thomas 'Brook Lee was charged with having kept liquor for sale on unlicensed premises. He was fined £2O.

STOWAWAYS GAOLED. NEW PLYMOUTH, May 15

This morning four stowaways on the Taranaki from Townsville were sent to gaol. Reginald Coban Tuck in, and John Erio Scott, who worked on the voyage, were sentenced to fourteen days hard labour, and Richard Duce and Philip Cowdon Brazier, who did not work received twenty-one days.

THIEVES A.T WORK

CHRISTCHURCH, May 15

Smashing a window in a sedan car parked in Gloucester. Street yesterday evening a thief stole drapery valued at £3O, the property of A. F. Sutherland. a soft goods salesman. Yesterday evening a chemist’s shop in Colombo Street was entered 'bv thieves and a quantity of goods valued at £5 or £6 stolen.

(police to-day found another abandoned car stolen yesterday from Gloucester Street. It contained several articles of clothings that have not yet been identified.

CABINET SITTING.

ROTORUA, May 15,

Chbinet resumted its sitting Hast evening and adjourned at 10.30 until 10.30 this morning.

A statement of progress was handed to the press.

bjiiis .morning six Ministers made an inspection of the work on settlement farms near Guthrie on Atiamuri i-o ad.

MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE. HAMILTON, May 15

August Herman Dernier, a farmer of Motumaoho, was committed for trial to-day, charged with driving a car negligently and. thereby oausiug the death of Norman Stephen Bradley near the approach of Te Rapa racecourse on April 12th.

THEFT ADMITTED

CHRISTCHURCH, May 15

Clifford Hoxman, 20, pleaded guilty this morning and was committed icr sentence on charges of breaking into shops of Clifford James Evans, a (hairdresser, an)d of Albert Ainsley Kellway, a jeweller, and stealing goods on the night of May 8. The polios said-the stolen property was recovered.

HOUSE GUTTED

PALMERSTON N., May 15

Shortly after midnight, the Fire Brigade were called to the six-roomed residence of F. L. Orchard, in Featherston St, East. The flames had a stnmg hold, and before they were extinguished, the greater part of the building was gutted. The house was unoccupied at the time of the outbreak, the owner being absent from town. The cause is unknown and insurances are not available.

MOTOR CYCLIST INJURED

HAWERA, May 15

Resulting from a collision on the main south road at 2.30 this morning ;t motor cyclist, Colin Horner. 26, single, of Hawera, was hospitalled with a reopening leg fracture suffered in another motor collision last January. It appears that a car, driven Ivy James Owen, passed the side of the road down which he intended turning and was backing a fen yards when the cycle came up from I‘ehind. The pillion rider with Horner escaped injury.

INQUEST VERDICT. NAPIER, May 15. At tiie inquest on Frederick George Farmery, a verdict of suicide while siif" feeing acute mental depression was returned. The evidence showed deceased used to light Gormans in his sleep.