DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 September 1933, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS

CHILD’S DEATH. <Per Press Association — Copyright.) INVERCARGILL, September 27. An accident, resulting in the death of Graham Findlay, aged four years, son of J. H, Findlay, of Orawai, occurred at Orawai yesterday afternoon. The child and his sister, aged three years, were -accompanying their father in removing sheep, the children being m a dray and the father and a boy about a chain away. Suddenly the horse bolted, the wheel of the dray struck a gate post, and the dray capsized. The child was killed outright, his head being crushed between ' the crossbar on the dray and the ground.

A REDUCTION SOUGHT. WELLINGTON, September 27. The Power Boards’ Conference today passed a resolution asking the Government to reduce power charges. Mr Krissel, chief electrical engineer of the Public Works Department, said there could be no reduction in these charges until there had been a -reduction in the deficiency. If anj* Board could get a subsidy from any other Government fund, he wished them luck, but- tbe Electricity -Account would not stand it. Some criticism at the method adopted by the Department in charging for electricity on the highest half-hourly peak load in any quarter was expressed by the Conference., It was decided to ask for the charges to be based on the average of three monthly peaks, each monthly peak, to be of 30 minutes’ duration.