DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 June 1922, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

’Per Press Association.)

EX-TOWN CLERK AND COUNCIL.

NELSON, June 21

In the action AV. T. Mansfield, formerly Blenheim’s town clerk and borough engineer v. Blenhneim Borough Council, a claim for £lOOO for alleged wrongful dismiss'd, a nonsuit point under the Municipal Corporations Act was raised by the defence and upheld by Mr Justice Salmond.

HARD-UP IMMIGRANTS

WELLINGTON, June 22

Enquiries as to the number of immigrants who had sought the assistance of the Charitable Aid Board elicited the information that 26 applications had been received from immigrants whose residence in the Dominion did not exceed six months. Eleven applications had come from people who had been settled in the country twelve months, and ten from those who had been two years in the Dominion.

EX-CIVIL SERVANT ARRESTED. WELLINGTON, June 26

An ex-civil servant, W. N. Ward, has been arrested on a charge of stealing Government documents. He had been employed in the Government Land Registry Office, and retired on superannuation on March 31. His duty was to receive documents, attach stamps and pass them on to another. For some time, the Post Office had been receiving enquiries about deposited documents of which no trace could be found. It is alleged that 150 documents were found in Ward's residence. He is charged on three counts of stealing and obliterating.

TRIBUTE TO AV.E.A.

WELLINGTON, June 22.

The Council of Education to-day carried a resolution that the Council urge upon the Finance .Minister that, as soon as the finances allow, more liberal treatment be accorded the Workers’ Education Association. Replying to the assertions that the Association encourage Socialism, M. T. U. Wells (Auckland) said that the classes were intended to bring the university closer to the working man, and then there would be less soap-box oratory. Several speakers testified to the excellent work of the Association, especially in the teaching of economics which hitherto had been practically confined to the university.

SOCIETY AND SOLICITOR. WELLLINGTON, June 26

In the Supreme Court, Mr Justice Hosking delivered the judgment of himself and Mr Justice Reed, in the case in which the Nelson Law Society asked to have a certain barrister and solicitor restrained from practice on the ground that he was insane.

The Court held that as the solicitor referred to had been practising for almost a year he should be given the opportunity of re-establishing his status, instead of being immediately restrained from practising. The application was therefore adjourned until September next.

The Court added that it did not consider the allegation of the solicitor’s neglect of his positive duties to clients had been established. ,

TAUPO TREMORS.

ROTORUA, June 22.

A special reporter visited Wairakei, Taupo, Oruanui, and Wairuru Valley. Oruanui is almost deserted, and the whole of the working Maori mill hands have left for Mokai. The earth in Oruanui valley is full of small vertical fissures. Though the country formation is friable pumice agglomerate, an impounding dam is not affected. Shocks in the valley are very severe and are accompanied by alarming sounds. Though much apprehension is felt, no damage has been done, save that a few bottles and crockery have been broken. The seat of the trouble is felt to be on. the WairakeiOruanui line. The lake is low through lack of rain and no snow water. The net results, save hurt nerves, are merely 'negligible. Small, unimportant subsidences are reported at the western arm of the lake, but nothing of magnitude that would justify the use of the word earthquake.