DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 July 1923, Page 7

DOMINION ITEMS

■ ■ 1 " - L I - V ■ . (Per Press Association.) ROADS LOAN REJECTED. , GISBORNE, July (V. A proposal to raise £150,000 for permanent road works in Cook County was defeated to-day by 78 votes, the opposition to it being based mainly on a belief that the proposals weae intercepting tlife operation of the main highways scheme. '' ' RUN OVER BY TRAM. ' CHRISTCHURCH, July 4. Frank Empson, sot of a well-known musician, aged 19, residing at New Brighton, while boarding a tram in motion this evening, lost his footing, and fell beneath the trailer, the wheels of which passed over his legs, badly crushing them. He was conveyed to the hospital. His condition is reported fair. BRIDEGROOM KILLED. CHRISTCHURCH, July 4. Patrick Mackie, aged 25, a resident of Kaikoura, died as the result of injuries received on Monday week in a / motor accident. He was returning to Kaikoura in a service car, with his bride, after their honeymoon; when it collided with a trap fit Belfast. The shaft struck him and he suffered a compound fracture of the left arm ' and injuries to the chest. To-day he was reported out of danger, but tonight, he collapsed and died. ■■ ' ■’ LABOURERS’ AWARD. TIMARU, July 4. The Conciliation Council completed a sitting in Timaru to-day. Three disputes were heard between the General Labourers’ Union ajid the Builders and Contractors, the Borough Council, and the County Coun- ! ci Is. A total agreement was reached in the builders’ dispute, providing for an increase in. wages of a penny farthing per hour, and also in the Bqroug Council’s case, the increase being twopence farthing per hour. The County ' Council dispute was referred to Arbitration. . ‘ EDUCATION BOARDS. BLENHEIM, July 4. The Blenheim School Committee has passed a- resolution that it views with serious misgivings the proposals of the Minister of Education in regard to a reduction of the number of rural members on Education Boards, the committee being strongly of opinion that the present representation of such places as Marlborough and Westland is not adequate, owing to the large area which the members represent, and that tiie proposed reduction would be a retrograde step which would seriously affect this district. Telephone charges. CHRISTCHURCH, July 4. At a meeting of the Canterbury. Progress League, the new scale of increased telephone changes came in for severe criticism, and it was decided: “That this meeting protests against the telephone charges being increased, as now proposed, without the crifa- > cisnis in the League’s report being , fully answered.” Some time ago the League, set up • a committee to go into the proposed ■ charges of £lB and £8 respectively for business and, private connections, and, • alter a. thorough investigation, the > Committee came to the conclusion that the charges were unwarranted. The report met with approval all ever the Dominion, but the Govem- • ment ignored it.