DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1933, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS

TORRENT OF APPLICATIONS

VACANCIES IN N-Z- AIR FORCE

(Ter Prest Association-- vopyright.)

WELLINGTON, November 24

Over one thousand applications have been received by the Defence Department, Wellington, to fill sixteen vacancies on the permanent air force. Included are some from R.A.F. men, and others are from men and boys in all walks of life. Many have had aviation experience.

A RESIGNATION,

WELLINGTON, November 24

Mr Caird has tendered his resignation as managing-director of the Australian Loan Mercantile.

COLONIAL LOCAL BODY ISSUES

•WELLINGTON, November 24,

Cable information was received today . front . London, that the London Stock Exchange market requires all future colonial local body issues to express principal and interest as payable in sterling, arid to be free of all domestic taxation, present and future.

UNUSUAL MAINTENANCE CASE

GISBORNE, November 24

An unusual maintenance case- was heard in the Magistrates Court, in which one, Hugh McCullough Scott, applied for an order of maintenance against his father, Charles Scott, now a resident in Ireland, to which the son .deposed that his father had transferred £4OO.

Complainant had been seriously ill in the -sanatorium for a considerable time. •

Counsel in reply to the Magistrate doubted whether the order could be enforced in Ireland, but asked for an ex parte order against a near relative. The - case was adjourned to enable evidence to be produced.