DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 December 1931, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS

BISHOP’S HEALTH. ( By Telegraph—Per Press Association) AUCKLAND, December 22. Owing to his serious breakdown in health, the Anglican Bishop of Melanesia, Rt. Rev. F. M. Molyneaux, has resigned. He is now on his way to England by the P. and 0. Liner, “Ballarat,” and there is little hope that he will be able to undertake work in the tropics again. A VISITOR. WELLLINGTON, December 22. Amongst the arrivals by the Rung! tane, yesterday morning, at Wellington,'was Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Lawson, K.C.8., who spends a short hftlifhD’.jn Ne\y Zealand as, the guest of Lord Bledisloe, before visiting his brother, Sir James A. Lawson, in Australia. He said that he stays until January 12th, and hopes to visit Rotorua, the National Park, and other spots in the North Island, and afteiwards the Franz Josef Glacier, Buller Gorge, and the Cold Lakes in the South Island. Sir Henry Lawson is a prominent worker for the League of Nations, and is sanguine that its effort to prevent serious warfare in the Far East will bear fruit. TWO-UP SCHOOL. FIVE PLAYERS FINED WANGANUI, Dec. 23. Five men, found in a two-up school on Saturday, were fined £1 each with costs, this morning. The betting was very small, only two shillings being in the ring. The game started through tossing for a tin of tobacco.