DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 April 1928, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS

(Per Presa Association.)

TWO RIBS BROKEN. WAI ROA, April 10. ;

Mr P. R. Summerfield, chairman of the Harbour Board, was taken to hospital last night as a result of a motoraccident near Frasertown. Mr Sum-, merfield suffered two broken ribs, one of which penetrated a lung.

THEFT OF BICYCLES. CHRISTCHURCH, April 12.

Annie O’Keefe, a widow, who had stolen three bicycle in the city, appeared in Court to-day. She was convicted and discharged, and committed to the Salvation/Army home. Her relatives said her trouble was drink.

RAILWAY BUSES.

CHRISTCHURCH, April 12.

With a view to trying out the possibilities of road transport in Canterbury, the Railway Department has taken over the motor bus services-, running between Kowai Bush and Christchurch, Springfield and Christchurch, knd Coalgate and Christchurch; as from Monday next. The existing timetable will be maintained. OPOSSUM POACHERS FINED. WELLINGTON, April 12. Before Mr E. Page, S.M., at Upper Hutt yesterday, William. Gorrie was charged with, unlawfully having opossum skins in his possession, and Andrew George Gorrie, his brother, was charged with having taken or killed opossums without a license. Over 300 skins were found on WilHam Gome’s premises. He was fined £4O, and Andrew Gorrie was fined £2O. MAORI SCHOLARSHIPS. ■ HASTINGS, April 10. An important conference affecting the welfare of Maoris was held at Paki-Paki last evening. Sir A. T. Ngata was present. A discussion took place on Maori scholarships, it being pointed out that the present method of allocating scholarships to Maori students was not sufficiently distributed over the. whole of the Maori population. It was proposed that in lieu of the present method the Education Department be asked to allocate a stated number of Maori scholarships to defined areas. The Maori Land Board areas, it was suggested, would be suitable for distributing these scholarships, so that every tribe would benefit equally. It was resolved to ask the Government that the scheme of household schools should be extended to the Maoris, as there were many districts where Maoris were living on their own. individual lands away in the backblocks, and too far from established schools.

A resolution also was passed conveying the thanks of the Maoris to (be New Zealand University for the \

introduction of the Maori language as a. pass subject for the B.A. and B.Sc. degrees.