DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 June 1930, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

BOTANICAL CONFERENCE.

(By Telegraph—Press Association)

PALMERSTON N

June 18

Doctor Allan, systematic botanist at the plant, research station at Palmerston North ..has, received instructions to attend the fifth International Botanical , Congress opening in I/oikloii on August lO.tli. -Dr.Allan will alsp . investigate the ~ work. of plant breeding stations, especially in relation, of strain work on grasses and clovers. Part of Dr. Allan’s expenses abroad will ibo borne by the Empire. Marketing Board.

SCI IOOL.GOAI MITT EES’

C.A PIT AT lON

MASTER-TON; June 18

A meeting of- parents, and representatives of North - AVairnrapa School Committees to-night .carried unanimously a resolution, “that this meeting of parents-strongly protest against recent reduced capitation grants to primhfy school's 'which aW-iiia'defju'a'te to nfle'et- the liability"of tli’e hofiiniittees ; for :? cleai(?ng, “heating' rind''lighting. ..They-'ufgfi the Government'" to' give’ ihihVediate "cort sideratio iV to'' the'" q ues-' -,it.ioii/ .with a view'' to'increasing' the .grant.and paying out on a basis of the *-Miniher of rooms, pl us the floor space, plus the "average attendance.” :• •:•:; J’.'j CI,a,JA( .I'fiß . Ib\NT) J' V ~. WELLINGTON, ..June 1 J. 7. \ . The taking of the block of land in Willis Street, known as Nimmo’s Corner, la.s'f .year, formed the subject of a claim for £6619 16s, compensation made by John Henry Garrett, restauraiytcpV, -and;'" his wife, Margaret Garrett,’* against the Wellington City Corporation in the Supreme Courts- yesterday- and to-day. The property had been the site of a popular eating-house for sixteen years.

•UMr A. Gray, K.C., for-tlie claimant, said that Garrett, believing the property would s ''not be’ taken, had failed to take Mlvnntage'of an ospbrt‘udsy to »aecui‘e mi'\H'premises' Then,'.suddenly* Hie ; Cfty'-Oofiticif took 'action, (and it’ was claimed tliar G ? aVi-eft, ■ as’ a 1 result of the- -land hnvi'h"--’-’been ’ ’ 'takcm liiid suffered 1 a. considerable; 1 lbss.' Mr Gray ;mciit'i'6necl ;that ?he_ Corporation' had £ioOO as" cbjiVpensatibn; biii .tlyit ‘bflWliad notl/eeh aecßpted. • After liear'ing ,lehg£'liy’'evid | eue < '. His Honor si)id he would give L'res.'i yed judgment, , ""i?- "•

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NEW PLyMOIfTH;- Jinm i ;: l8

, The motorisV with ’ the' distinction ’of having; plunge'd , ' J New ; ’Piyhidiitb into .darkness' Appeared’. in. tjje 'court' today. Ho Ava.s the American’ citizen, George Lewis Coles, a,n oil driller. H;i v i charge of Tils, ear, lie was" admitted'to* ! probation lor one year, his driving Ijeense Itejbg ordered to;. pa>i, £,L3i Bs, 'the RomugßL'i^nii'n^jl’s account, j Coles drove his car on to Hie Tootpiiih, struek an electric light pole, aiulj flapped it, bringing dpyn | the ' power Hjhes;. He was mHh&i ljb's-41 pita) for a fortbiglit.

CAR FALlis SEVENTY FEET

THREE:MEN INJURED

.GSSBORNE, June 18

'l’llrough the: driver of a car luis-tak-ijig the road, the car went' over : a seventy foot, bqnk at AV.hatatutu this evening, aucLHv ce 1,1011 "'ere admitted to,.- (Cook. 1 f |ids‘pital. One passenger namhd J .Blown, is in a serious

)y. ! .r ' • '.p .• 1 , .The Trevor Charles Tong (driver) ;iii(F If rank Chadwick; •:> pas--so. gi.r, aid Fifveriiig from minor injiiiid.,. Thd tinee men are from Auckland; di.siriett representing,,.a British Products Ltd.j and they had lieen canvassing the,, .district with linejjvofVottV. iP'T-

S'liiurcm BY MOTOR

AYE'i.IiINGTON, June. 18

The ch-atli,: Jias occurred of Airs AVr jS. Williams; ‘ iof Dewsbury Terrace, Oriental Bay, who was knocked down by a motor lprrj on Monday evening.

S.P.C.A

WELLINGTON, June 18

The Society, lor the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Dominion Conference was opened by Mr Stallworthy to-dii.v. Colobel Mitchell. President of the AVellingioh, Society, occupied the chair. Alr>? t Stal I worthy expressed the hope that 1 the Society’s’activities would exteiul.- The matter of hobby calves was discussed at length, and a niotjon was -carried that the executive take .steps in r conjunction with' tlie Farmers’ Union, and any other bodies concerned t° urge the Government •to pass legislation along the lilies of having the' calves tagged, that they should he paid for according to qualitv, and that the lorries on which they are carried- should he divided info compartments.

EX-SOLDIERS’ REHA RTF! i' VI lON

A!ASTERTON. June 18

The Wbiiarapn Patriotic AsspciafimP at its annual meeting to-day. passed a resolution approving of the report, and recommend:!tions of the Ex-Soldiers’ Reliiihilitat ion Commis-