DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 May 1930, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

A JAPANESE COMMENT

By Telegraph—Per Press Association..)

DUNEDIN, May Iff

Mr Yuji Nagashima, a shoiarly and courteous gentleman from Japan, who bade good-bye to Dunedin yesterday after a business visit, and is now beading for bis home in Sydney, said, whilst shaking" hands with a New Zealand lrierni: “Your country and mine are much alike in several ways. They ..re both island; neighboured by great lands. Both are beautiful, with a romantic pieturesqueness. Each has its volcanoes. They have a point of resemblance in that their peoples are industrious, self reliant and hardy, lhe great difference is that- Japan’s population reckons up to eighty millions, whilst New Zealand has one million and a half. We could spare you some of our surplus.”

AFTER- MANY YEARS

AN UNEXPECTED HONOUR

DUNEDIN, May Iff

A Dunedin citizen, Mr I). K. Macdonald, received a surprise when he went home for luncheon yesterday, and found awaiting him an official letter from the Belgian Government stating that he bad been awarded a decoration for services rendered. A medal was enlosed.

Mr MacDonald was a transport "officer on the Congo River from 1904 to 1908, and understands that his decoration is a recognition of -the part he played in assisting to open up the Congo Free State. The weight of the letter was the first intimation Mr Macdonald had that he was to be thus honoured, and be wonders how the Belgian Government, traced him to Dunedin, where he lias resided for some years.

FLAXMU HEPS’ REQUEST

PALMERSTON N., May 19

Advice was received in Palmerston North from Hon. G. W. Forbes tbatin reply to requests lor the Flaxmillers Association to provide a subsidy of £4OOO for the establishment of a stabilisation fund, the Government is willing to lend the Association up "to this sum to enable it to establish its own stabilisation fund. Such a loan will bear interest of five per cent anjel will require to be secured by a joint and several guarantees by millers, who are members of the Association, and will, be repayable over such period as is decided bv Uio State Advances Board through which the loan will be arranged.

A BOY INJURED

BLENHEIM, May 19

A lad named Richard Reardon, soil of P. Reardon, a well known trainer, met with a distressing accident on Saturday afternoon. When tnrffrc was returning to Blenheim from the races at Waterlea racecourse, a taxicab had taken a party froih the racecourse to town and was returning for a second load, when Reardon appeared suddenly from between a long string of cars proceeding towards Blenheim and ran right in front of the taxi. The lad was thrown off his feet and foil between the wheels of the car which passed over him. He crawled out from the rear, of the vehicle aird the driver' lost.no time in conveying him to the Wairau hospital. He was found to be suffering head injuries and abrasions.

INQUEST ON CONSTABLE

WELLINGTON, May 19

An inquest was held this afternoon on Constable John Baxter Scott, aged 31. The deceased was injured in a motor car accident at the intersection of Coromandel and Constable Streets on loth September, 1929, and died in Wellington Hospital on the 13th of M,nv last.

])r Lynch, pathologist to Wellington Hospital, who made a post mortem examination, said that in his opinion, the cause of death was septic infection of the bladder and kidneys, following an injury to the spine.

The Coroner returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence.

UNIVERSITY SENATE

WELLINGTON, May 19

The University Senate, to-day, decided that the minimum marks for the entrance examinations remain as at present ■ that the present method of renewal of results on the borderline continue, and that the executive committee consider the question of rescaling marks.

BANKRUPT’S PAYMENTS CHALLENGED.

AVELLINGTON, May 19

A suggestion of fraudulent preference payments to certain creditors, out of insurance money from a fire which burned down his store at Paranuita, was made to-day at the meeting of the creditors of Charles Lambert. A resolution was carried that the firms should be asked by the Official Assignee to return the amounts, failing which action should be taken to recover them.