DOMINION STEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 June 1930, Page 6

DOMINION STEMS.

JUDGMENT RESERVED

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.

AUCKLAND, June 11

Judgment wns reserved by .Mr .InsLice Smith to-day after hearing lengthy legal argument by counsel lor plaintiff (Mr Eleiiiing) in the ease in which Inlm Kiiitoek Simpson, a 'labourer, ol Ofahuliu, claimed 02090 damages innn the Challenge Phosphate Company (Mr Northerol't). Simpson was the victim of an accident in February. 1929 ,at the Otaliuhu fertilised works, in which lie slithered severe /injury 1 IVoiii burns by acid. Specific acts o'i' negligence were alleged against the defendant company and were denied.

BROUGHT TO'BOOK

AUCKLAND. -bine 11

When a number ot peonk '.verc walking along a footpath iie Quodn St. one Friday night in April,'-a motor-car dashed across from the safety - zone, and mounting the footpath, 'knocked down and injured a pedestrian. Hie driver did not stop, Inquiries were subsequently made by the police,' who succeeded in tracing him. He uas Murdoch R. Brown, a young man, who this morning appeared at the .Police Court charged with dangerous driving. The Magistrate imposed a fine of C2.

.DISPUTE ON MAH EXO

DUNEDIN, .June 12

Tim steamer Malicno is' Held up here owing to a dispute with the crew. It is understood that the -men object to the engagement of a hew - boatswain, demanding that the former boatswain he re-engaged There were negotiations-- for settlement to-day, hut they were unsuccessful, and (l.e matter wa r s referred to the Union Coinany at Wellington for a settlement. In the meantime the Malieno is timed to leave Port Chalmclis on Saturday evening for Bluff and A[pl bourne.

MAN’S SKULL FRACTURED

Tl MAR Uf "June 12

At the Magistrate's Cftpffft, to-day’ Keith Erauk Turner, a slaughterman was committed .for; tiT.if filfr a eliargg of causing actual bodily l®fm-7to Leon* aid Raws tofu McDiiff at yaslidyke oiiApril 19th. as the rqsiiltJfff'Mi fight"'jit McDuff’s garage. The proprietor was admitted to the hospital tt&th a fractured skull. He has just, beeu N discharged 'from the.Jiospi tii.l. .' $

RETURNED SOLDIERS

REH ABl LITATIOX REQUESTS

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An an ext.raorclimiry:,tgeileru'l'• meeting, the l Tiniaru branclWof the lie.: turned Soldiers’ Association to-night, the following resolution was carried unanimously: '! hat this meeting ol Returned Soldiers approves and confii ins the findings and rocomniecintions of the Rehabilitation Commission and urges the flovernmcnt to give effect to the- same at the earliest possible date.

PETROL TAX INCREASE

CHRISTCHURCH, June 13

Strung criticism of the proimeM to inert"'e <!■■ •?trol tax in upier to ici "f ’ : f•;■ ■ ••ht of loca. tu-miioti or !V ; mers wi.s ■expressed ai a iiiccling of the Exece-ive -of tlv Island Mo.or ! i; ■i . \ .rouiiiig ice was' set iij) 1,. >'■< ■i- f-ste-the* situation, and ii.

was deckled to ask the North Island .Motor Union for co-operation.

UNIVERSITY TASK. AUCKLAND. Jtine 13

i feel bound to say tlial (lie univer«*’t.y ol New /calami is trying to carry •"it an impossible task, and not doing it particularly well, said Sir (leorgc Kowlds, speaking at Auckland University College's capping ceremony. The time was coming when wo will either have four separate universities, or a uiiiifiiersiliy inc'orpor.al mg Aju'ekland, ■ai Victoria University colleges ami 'Massey College, as the university of north New Zealand. Mr Uowhls added that he personally favoured the latter proposal.