DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 June 1930, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

\irZ. UNEMPLOYED

(By Telegraph—Press Association)

AUCKLAND, June 22

A special two days’ trotting meeting in Auckland, to raise funds for unemployed relief, has been authorised by the Government. The stakes arc not to exceed two thousaind pounds each day. The proceeds of the meeting, including the taxes, to be remitted, are to lie divided equally between, the Hospitals and Charitable Aid Board and the Auckland City Council. The payments to be made to the City Council are to be expended on wage-s only.

THE TOBACCO CROP

DAMAGE BY FROST,. AUCKLAND, June 20,

Recent frosts have worked’ havoc with green feed throughout the Te Puke district, dud the majority of settlers arc now feeding out ensilage and hay. Thje Icold snap has ’also liad the effect' of accelerating 1 the drying off of cows which were being milked much better than usual this season. •

Advices front Morea and Rotorua say that frosts and chill winds have given the tobacco growers cause for anxiety, the leaves having already received a setback. ' Some are spraying the plants with water to prevent the sun from ;completely-:, destroying- the crop. .. - . ■’ ■ f- . fie. ■ -I. . WOMAN WITH THROAT CUT.

NEW PLYMOUTH, June 22.

The mother of a family of seven Mrs Rose Stewart, aged 48, was found dead in her husband’s motor shed at Fitzroy yesterday wit liber throat cut and a razor lying beside- the body. The husband, William Stewart, a labourer, said ■ bis:-wife. had siiffcwed from heart trouble; for some. yeai-spaind-: recently her condition had been worse, i .. '! -f r ■ ■■■ ----- ■ - : -htjtj.d.i

, OLD WOMAN DROWNED, .1

; Vl i , r. 1 >•*.) i» 1 CTIRIS.TOHURCH,.;June 2?.

Christina Smith,- aged:.B4,s a widft.W and: an. inmate, tofv the:■ '©bristdhuyplp Juhilefe; Home,.- wa.-s.droW.hO.d in, .t&p Heathcote River- >tlDis morning/ disapeared from - the).Home a very, qartjj clad only 'in her nightgown,/' She was > found later in the morning ffioating. in the river a few hundred - yards from.. the Home. . .

■ At the inquest to-day, purges on the .rtaff of the Home stntejythnt Mrs Smith: seemed normal...tins morning^^t.. sbeMiad:.rencbed>ta iepnditiqp v dee.ay-; and had-totbeowatched r.carpfjilft. I.V- qi,i it-. -.-jub odd

..." The Magistrate-,sasd that,it,apßea.r?fJ. that Smith did not know what she was Mining.- • - “frilli(d; drowned”, stating that all possible taken by the "staff of the infftitn tin on,': Vuicl' WFf; attachalile.'.tqv.fheni. -i. -

' : TRAVELuffI DROWNED. WukliDlN, .Tun, . 4Q... ’ E. Chctwin, a married man. Ira Toiler for Bing, Harris, and C 0,., hid., was drowned this morning alien bis sedan car ran into the- .MolyneiiX river at Clydovale. He was driving it on to a ferry punt alongside a lorry, whe.n the latter slipped halfway into the river, and the car ran back into the water.

CH RISTCHBRCH PRO ROSA L

( lIP ISTCHURX’H , June 23. ii&Wiuin l iijovWf my previous motion tli ft the men bsS.jjiaid the same wages . foiylort.v bu.ifsihflfi; was previously received by ihem.fffir the week, the'Ladiijmw members; ofij the City Council, with,'/the exception of the Mayor J Urn Rev. J. K. Archer.) voted against ine,” said Cr A. EC Armstrong. •• Mr Armstrong said that bis sole object in presenting bis . motion iyyas to provide for the permanent employment of fifty unemployed men and three apprentices with as little cost to Hie ratepayers as possible. As the original motion was not supported, be was placed in the position of making a suggestion in order to meet the men in conciliatory form. Ho felt confident Dint the men would make some suggestion which might have been the means of employing permanently some of those now unemployed, cheering the hours of some of the less fortunate citizens, besides bettering their own Conditions.

EXAM CONTROVERSY

WELLINGTON. June 24

The local Board of Governors of the Technical College has taken a hand in the controversy over matriculation examinations, though a definite resolution was deferred awaiting the result of the Advisory Committee’s enquiries. Strong disapproval was expressed of the practice of some employers demanding a matriculation standard of technical pupils. Afatriculati.m, ;t waus contended, was a test of -iV.ain ment, but not of capacity. Whereas the latter was the real test, the Director of the College was,in favir. 1 J a heaving certificate as against mnriciilation. He said that was .he practice in England and it was ve*. satisfactory.