DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 October 1930, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

PATRIOTIC ASSOCIATION

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

DUNEDIN, October 20

That there had been a \ ery large increase in the number of applications to the Otago Patriotic Association for assistance, was made clear at the half yearly meeting to-day, when it was announced that £2144 had been expended in assisting 593 persons in ;six months, it was stated that the Association found that the fact of ex-soldiers being out off work for a consider;! Je time had a very bad effect on their health and many were breaking up. A motion was carried commending the Government for what had been done to give effect to the Rehabilitation Cofnmittee’s recommendations, and expressing the hope that all these be made effective as circumstances permitted.

ASIATICS NAMES. A CHRIS"CHURCH MOVE. CHRISTCHURCH Oct. 20. At a meeting of the New Zealand Fruit and Produce Federation, a complaint was--- made of Asiatics changing their names and trading, in different towns under assumed' names. It was decided to approach the Government with a request that all Asiatics resident in New Zealand, be registered, and that it be a penal offence for them to change their names. Chambers of Commerce throughout New Zealand are to be asked to give support to the proposal. OBITUARY. NELSON, Oct! 21. The death has occurred at tlie i-.gjs of 74 years of Mr Jamcrs Allan, one of the pioneers of the fruit industry in the Tasman district. Mr Allan, who Was. born at Mosgiel, Otago, was a farmer, and apiarist in the south until 14 years ago, when he transferred from Wyndham to Tasman, where he established ah apple orchard. Since engaging in apple growing, Mr Allan had taken a . great interest in the growth of the industry, taking a leading part for many years hi all of the growers’ organisations. WRESTLER BARRED. WELLINGTON, October 20.

At a meeting of the Finance Committee, which is the City Council as a whole, this evening, it Was decided, on the motion- of the Mayor, Mr G. . A. Troup, “'that- Billy Edwards be debarred from ’ wrestling in the Town Hall 1; that if there are any further wrestling matches of a similar nature j to last Tuesday’s one between Edr wards and Alley, the Council will bar ’ any further use of the Town Hall for 5 wrestling matches, irrespective as to which body promotes them ; and that I the Council advise those concerned to , bring about the formation of one eon- . trolling body only for wrestling in the . Dominion.” STATE MINE TDLE. MINER’S PROTEST. GREYMOUTH, October 21. Liverpool State Mine is idle to-day, the men declining to start work, as a protest against trains running late last Friday afternoon. Friday was the last day in the quarterly cavil and the men Sensed work at 2 p.m. The train usually leaves for Groymouth about 2 45 p.m. and did not leave till 3 46. A later train which Usually leaves at 4 40 left at 5 o’clock. THEFT OF MONEY. " WELLINGTON, October 18. Atholl Courtenay Forbes, aged 37, pleaded guilty to charges of tailing to account for a total of £lßll 8s to his former employers, Toledo-Berkel Company, for whom he was Wellington representative. In 1923, it was stated, accused was admitted to two years’ probation for theft and a year’s detention on the inebriates’ island. He afterwards made good with the Toledo-Berkel Company, but in May of last year, he commenced to drink and gamble and when the headquarters of the company at Auckland began to question him about accounts, he disappeared and eventually was found working for the Public Works Department at Rotorua. He had a wife and child when he disappeared, and as they could not locate . him, they returned to England. The Magistrate could not accede to the request of counsel for accused to give him another chance arid imposed a sentence of twelve months’ imprisonment.

GISBORNE UNEMPLOYED

GISBORNE, October 18. A deputation of seventy men claiming to represent 350 unemployed, waited on the Mayor of Gisborne, who undertook to invetigate the possibilities of further outlay by the council and also approach the Government for further grants. He paid a warm tribute to the R.S.A., stating that the position would have been much worse Imt for that body’s co-operation with the council. He added that £9OOO had been spent by the borough in relief during the winter.