DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 November 1930, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

KAURI TIMBER COY. (By Telegraph—Press AssoUation). AUCKLAND, November 7. The head office of the Kauri Timber Company advises the payment of a dividend of 2£- per cent, for the year ended August ;Ilst. The company paid 8 per cent, in 1925 and 1926, six per cent, in 1927, a fid three per cent, in 1928 and 1929. STOCKTON COAL OUTPUT. DUNEDIN, November 8. The* general manager of the West-port-Stockton Coal Company, Ltd., advises that tli© output for October was (5080 tons. The output for the corresponding period last year was 16,532 tons, which shows a decrease of 10,452 tons. SUDDEN DEATH. DUNEDIN, November 9. A man named David Gilmore Hutchison, aged 38, of Arden Street, Opoho, expired suddenly yesterday at his residence. Dr Evans, who was called in, considered that the circumstances necessitated an inquest, which will be held to-morrow morning. Hutchison was a married man, 52 yehrs of age, with a wife and family of pine. He was the proprietor of a tobacconist shop in the Stock Exchange buildings. KILLED BY FALLING TREE. WELLINGTON, November 8. At Tnurnarunui, William Armstrong, thirty-five, married, was/killed instantly in the bush at Ongarue this morning, by a falling tree. He leaves a wife and three young children. CORONER’S FINDING. WELLINGTON, November 8. Coroner Barton delivered his finding at the inquest on the death of Mi's Hannah to-day. She was knocked down and run over by a motor-bus owned and run by the Railway. Department, and driven by Mr Carroll. In a rider, Mr Barton said that as he understood the depositions of the finding in an inquiry of that nature, were sent for perusal of the Transport Department, he begged to call the attention of the officials of the Department,-to the evidence of Carroll and J. H. Clark, particularly in relation to (1) obstruction to the view of the driver, afforded by direction indicators, first by reason of its physical interposition on the driver’s line of vision and secondly by reason of the fact that it was illuminated and (2) to recommendations as to the advantages of a movable pilot light, with an illuminable dark area towards which the bus would be moving while being turned.

SHUNTER HURT. CHRISTCHURCH, November 9. Although he slipped off an engine during shunting operations at the railway yards, Martin Henry Codyre, a railway employee, who resides at 81, Harman Street, Addington, escaped serious injury. Codyre was admitted to the Christchurch Hospital at 12.50 p.m., suffering from shock. ' He was standing at the rear of the engine when lie slipped off, hut fortunately fell clear of the line. However, a projection on the carriage behind the engine struck him on the head and shoulder. As the carriages were travelling slowly he was not badly hurt. HAIRY PRODUCTION. WELLINGTON. Nov. 8. The Dairy Division grading figures for the three months, ended October, 1930. show an increase for butter of 8.00 per cent at 21,951 tons (20,2121 and for cheese an increase of 20.43 per cent at 15,308 tons (12,711) as compared with the quantities for tile corresponding period last peason shown in parentheses. Reduced to terms of butter fat equivalent the gradings of dairy produce for the three months show an increase of 11.193 per cent over the corresponding period of last season.

FIRE. CHRISTCHURCH. 'Nov: 8. A fire among some rubbish in the bookstall on the platform at the Christchurch railway station was responsible for the Central lire Biigade bcjfng called out shortly alter noon to-day. The fire was extinguished before any damage , was done.