DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 2 June 1931, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS

WORK FOR UNEMPLOYED AT CHRISTCHURCH. (By Teleyraph—Per Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, .Tune 1 The Labour majority on the City Council to-night, with the added vote of one independent Councillor, earned , a resolution making a special order to raise £‘39.500 lor the relief, of the mi employed in Christchurch. J Together with an estimated contribution of £42.500 from the Unemployed Board, this sum will be used in the reconstruction of roads, the planting of reserves, the formation of i>creation areas, and the clearing and levelling of land for the cemetery. A MINE TRAGEDY. INVERCARGILL, -May 31. The collapse of part of a bank of coal at the Wajkaki Coal Coy’s pit at Oliai this afternoon, was responsible for the death of a miner named Thomas Dixon, aged 64. marred, who at the time was engaged with a mate in extracting pillars, and bead coal and filling a box at tlie base of the bank. John Craig, who was with Dixon was struck on the shoulder by ii fall and thrown cleat. MQRTC AG OH'S RELI EV . AUCKLAND, June 1. The first application in Auckland ! under the Mortgagors’ Relief Act came before Magistrate Cutten. The applicant sought cancellation for wn year of payments for the reduction or principle oil a. bill of sale collateral, with a second mortgage. He said that he was unable to obtain payment from his debtors, and although lie could pay the interest in the first, mortgage and also on the bill or sale, lie was unable to reduce the principal. The Magistrate said the case was clear. The holder of the bill of sale was in a safe position. The security was still there. The application was granted subject to the payment of interest. FOUND HANGING. TAURANGA, June 1. Ranganui \Yi Jveepa, native, Motiti Island, recently living at Judea Pa, 36, married with four children, wa» missed yesterday. A search was made and his body was discovered hanging from a tree in a nearby swamp, 15 inches from the ground. He had been dead about 18 hours when discovered. The Coroner’s verdict was suicide, from hanging, while of unsound mind. fatal fall. NAP I HR, Junel. A tmih whose linine. is believed to bo T. Smith, was killed yesterday afternoon when lie fell from tho top storey of the Parker buildings. Tho structure was destroyed by fire following the earthquake, and men were engaged in removing the stee j girders irorn the top storey. Smith fell to the bottom floor, and broke his back and injured his skull. Another man, Arthur Hughes, brok, an ankle when leaping from a lacldei to avoid a falling wall in another building this morning. THEFT OF SHEEP. TIMARU, June 2. At the Police Court, Percy Clifford Holland, n labourer, was charged with having at Beautiful Valley, near Geraldine, stolen ninety sheep valued at £sl Bs, the property of Smith Bros. Accused who took ih e sheep from a paddock and trucked them to Burnside sale, as he explained to pay a private debt, pleaded guilty and was committed to tb e Supreme Court for sen fence. STOP WORK MEETINGS. GREYWIOUTH, June 2. Miners .stop work meetings were held to-day to consider the wage cut order. State Miners by a majority of 20 votes were against a- strike, Dobson agreed to abide by the decision of the National Council, and Reefton decided in favour of a strike. MINISTER’S FINAL OFFER WELLINGTON. June 2. The Minister of Public 'Works in a letter to the New Zealand Workers’ Union, fixing the final opportunity for the Tawa Flat tunnellers to resume under the revised contract rate, lias not yet been considered by the Union but Secretary Cook intimated to a “Post” representative to-day that the Union had asked the Minister to extend the date to June 12th. He said that this request made an order that an ultimatum might he placed before the men on the Stratford Main Trunk Arapuni and other public works. He expected an early reply from the Minister. A general meeting will he held in order to discuss the Minister’s letter.