DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 May 1931, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

APPEAL AGAINST DISMISSAL. (By Teley -aph—Per Press Association j WANGANUI, May £7. An appeal against- her dismissal to the Wanganui Education Board was made by -Miss C. R. Phillips to-day. AL.ss Phillips was a teacher at tlie Rangiwahia school and the school committee complained alleging the children had been kept in an unreasonable time, excessive corporal punishment inflicted and general trouble with parents. The Education Board contended that Miss Phillipslßwas tempennentally unsuitid for .twitching. Mr T. B Strong Director of Education, said he did nob know any teacher who had given the Department so much concern. Tnev did all they could for her. Miss Phillips was not tom-pei-mentally suited' for teaching.

1N ANGAH IT A COUNTY. REEFTON, M«v 27. John O’Regan has been elected County Chairman. Tl All >ER C() ATP ANY ’ S OPE RAT 10 NS. AN UNPROFITABLE YEAR. AUCKLAND. May 23. “Your directors regret having to report, the most unfavourable year’; tradjiig in the history of tlie company,” states the annual report of the Parker Lamb Timber Company. Tlie profit and loss neeoiint shows a loss on the year’s trading, after allowing £IO6B for depreciation, and £3OB for had debts, of £4763. Last year there was a net profit- of £849, and the year before that £3002. RELIEF OF DISTRESS. CHRISTCHURCH, May 27. Condemning the proposal of the Labour majority of the City Council’to rescind the resolution by which the standard of relief wages paid by the Council was reduced from 15/4 a day. and stating that the sympathies oi country people would thereby he alienated, representatives of the Canterbury A. and P. Association, the Sheepowners’ . Union, and the South Canterbury Farmers’ Union decided in conference to-day, not to proceed with the scheme they had previously adopted for the collection of produce from farmers in the country to relieve distress among the unemployed. At a subsequent .meeting the Executive of the Farmers’ Union declined...to ratify this • decision. While tlie inch)hoi’s . strongly attacked the Labour proposal to restore wages to 15/4, they were swayed by the argument that the relief of the starving people was a mutter of c,minion humanity not to be decided l.y municipal politics

COMPENSATION CLAIM. WELLINGTON, May 27. An echo of the motor accident in which Air and Airs AV. Cook, of Jolin- ! sonville, lost their lives in Ngahau- ! fa'n'ga;/Gorge," biT"April 13 last year,' ; was /heard,--i u . the- Supreme Court to- [ day, in the action on 'behalf of their j two young children, against Alfred Edward Storey, the claim being tor £IOOO in. respect of the mother’s death and £3OOO tor the loss of the father. The facts ot the accident were ad initted, and the proceedings werq devoted mainly to legal argument as to the amount, if any, the children were entitled to, and the basis on which the computation should he made. ILLEGAL FIREARM. WELLINGTON. Alay 27. Refused a license to carry a revolver by the police, owing to his history. John Barnett, company manager, aged 51, \ias charged to-day and pleaded guilty to being uiilawtully in possession of an unregistered revolver for r. .

longer period than seven da'ys: Ac-' /.•used was fined £lO, and an order ua.> made forfeiting the weapon.

NAPIER’S HOSPITAL. NAPIER, Alay 28. A site lor the, destroyed ltospital in Napier Hills was unanimously selected by the Hospital Board yesterday, as the site for a new base hospital for the, district. Plans have. been prepared by the Department for tlie institution for 145 patients. An immediate .start is to be made in the construction. [\ deputation comprising of the Board Chairman and three Hastings members, go to 'Wellington to urge on the Minister the necessity for providing fifty beds for general cases at Hastings.