DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 November 1930, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

GISBORNE, November 14

The announcement is made by the Political Reform League that H. 1). Welatour contests the Gisborne seat in the interests of the Reform Party at the next election.

AUCKLAND RAILWAY STATION

AUCKLAND, November .13,

The informal opening of . the new Auckland railway station on Sunday next will mean a strenuous fortnight for the administrative,, traffic and engineering staffs. The change involves not only niglit-and-day work next week-end in completing road and rail access to the now station, but also the removal of the whole station staff and the personnel and equipment of the district offices now housed on the second floor of the Chief Post Office. So far as the public is concerned the most important feature is that every time-table will be run and the passenger service will not be interrupted by the change over. The new station is to be officially opened on Monday, before which .date the. district staffs will be installed in their fine new offices on the two upper floors of the station building.

CANDIDATE FOR PARLIAMENT,

PRESENT MAYOR OF WELLINGTON.

WELLINGTON, Nov. 14,

At the request of the New Zealand Political Association, Mr G. A. Troup (Mayor of Wellington) to-day agreed to become a candidate for Wellington North at the next general election. He reserved to himself the right to support a party, but stated that if elected, he would use every influence to bring about a fusion between United and Reform parties, as against Labour.

LEWIS PASS ROAD.

REEFTON PEOPLE’S EXCEPTION

REEFTON, November 14

A large meeting of citizens last night carried a resolution protesting against the men being dispensed with at Lewis Pass Road and swelling the unemployed at Reefton where owing to slackness of coal orders many are workless.

BURNED TO 1 DEATH. REEFTON, November 14

A man named Wilfred Charles Harvey, single, a farmer aged about 45 years was burned to death in a hut at Oweka, Inangahua Valley this morning. Residents saw the fire and. visited the hut and found the remains near a fireplace. Deceased originally came from Collingwood and has a brother at Ivaraniea.