DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 August 1930, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

missing Mail turns up

[By Telegraph, Per Press Association., AUCKLAND, July 31. An English mail which missed the Niagara at Vancouver on her last voyage, reached Auckland this morning on the American steamer “Golden

Coast.” This will clear up a mystery of missing letters, which has been concerning business men. The “Golden Coast” carried 400 bags of mail from the United! States, and 37 bags of this consignment should have reached Auckland; byj4the Niagara on July 14th. They had been carried from England to New York on the Bereugaria, but they missed the Niagara connection at. Vancouver. The “Golden Coast” is one of the vessels -subsidised by the United States Government to carry mails to New Zealand.

SAMOAN IMMIGRATION ORDER. WELLINGTON, July 31. A Samoan Immigration Order, 1930, is gazetted to-night, and conies into force on the eleventh of August, 1930.

P. AND T. OFFICERS’ SPLIT

MASTERTON, July 31. | At a meeting of the Wairarapa sec- 1 tion of the P. and T. Officers’ Association to-night, the following resolution was carried. “That this section views with grave concern the formation of the P. and T. Officers’ Guild, which savours as an attempt to reduce the efficiency and effectiveness of the present Association; and, further, that tile organising methods adopted by the founders of the guild are viewed with displeasure.” j

DUNEDIN VITAL STATISTICS

DUNEDIN, July 31

The vital statistics for July, with the returns for the corresonding month of last .year, are ns follows: Births: July 1930, 133; July 1929, 124. Deaths: 1930, 108; 1929. 100. Marriages: 1930, 44; 1929, 41.