DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 31 March 1931, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS

TONGARI RO PARK COY. SALE OF ASSETS. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association) WELLINGTON, March 30. Mr J. B. Enipson, Under Secrctur; for Lands, and Chairman of the T'ongariro National Park Board, stated that at an auction sale held at Wanganui, the leaseholds held by the Tonga rim Park Coy., Ltd., had been bought in by the Park Board, together with t l. Company’s goods and chattels. Th leaseholds were bought for £40,000 and the chattels for £15.000.

THE “KOTITI.” BREAKS TAIL SHAFT. WELLINGTON, Mar.-I, The small wooden motor vessel Kotiti en route from Little Wanganui, near Karaniea, to Wellington, broke her tail shaft off the Brothers. She came under sail to Wellington Heads, where she was picked up by the tug T’oia and towed to the Queen’s Wharf.

COST OF SESSION. WELLINGTON, March 30 In the course of a conversation toda.v the Prime Minister said that he had been supplied with figures by tin' Treasury which showed that the cost of' the present emergency session ol Parliament to date amounted |o CL>33!) or £BO7 per day. He added not one single item of business had yet been transacted.

CHRISTCHURCH COUNCIL. TEN PER CENT. CUT. CHRISTCHURCH, March 30. '[’he Christchurch City Council decided to-night to make a ten per cent reduction in the salaries ot all of its employees. Some of the employees a>'e entitled to annual increments, and will receive the increments as usual, but they will still be subject to a ten per cent. cut. The proposal was debated at length and with some bitterness.