DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 December 1929, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

(Per Press Association.)

HUTT BY-ELECTION. WELLINGTON, December 2. Nominations for the Hutt by-elec-tion closed at noon. The candidates are: Johnston (Reform), Kerr (United), Nash (Labour). MARTON BOOKMAKERS. MARTON, November 30. The third conviction for bookmaking secured here within a month was recorded to-day, Alfred Kaye being fined £5 for using his residence as a common gaming house. The police stated that they were determined to stop the practice. The Bench issued a warning that the fines in future would be much more severe. SAFE ROBBERS. DUNEDIN, December 1. Following on an unsuccessful attempt to blow open the strong room at the Caversham Post Office on Thursday night, Messrs Cossens and Black’s premises in Crawford Street were entered some time on Saturday night, and the safe was dynamited. Until a balance is taken, the amount of the haul will not be known, but it is thought to be small. PUBLIC BEQUESTS. HAWERA, November 29. Under the will of the late Mr George Syme the following bequests are made to charitable social services:—Wellington Presbyterian Orphanage and Social Service Association, £2OO. Presbyterian Sunday School; Hawera, £lOO. Presbyterian Home Mission Fund, £lOO. Jubilee Institute for the Blind, Auckland, £lOO. Hawera Hospital Board, £250. Salvation Army Boys’ Home, Eltham, £lOO. Hawera Borough, £5OO, to be applied for the purposes of utility or ornamentation.

MAORI HOUSE. AUCKLAND, November 29. A gathering of between 200 and 300 attended a practically exclusive native ceremony of re-opening the carved house of Hotonui, which was removed from Parawai, the Hauraki tribal centre, to be preserved in the Memorial Museum. After a party of natives had exorcised any bad spirits that might have taken -refuge in the carved house, the Governor-General and Lady Alice Fergusson were accorded a typical Maori welcome, and the aged Mita Taupopoki conveyed greetings from the Arawas, while presentations of Maori treasures were made to Sir Charles, and Lady Alice, and Sir Edwin Mitchelsoh. MEAT WORKS SUPPLIES GISBORNE, Nov. 30. Unequivocal terms were employed by Mr. J. W. Nolan; the Chairman of Directors, in his address to the annual meeting of the Sheep Farmers’ Frozen Meat and Mercantile Coy. Ltd., when he charged a section of the shareholders with disloyalty to themselves, to their Company, and to the financial and business concerns with which the Company deals. He remarked: “The writing is on the wall, staring you in the face. It plainly says that, unless a supply of stock is forthcoming, your works must close down.”

The Chairman added a warning that this eventually would leave the. producers of the district entirely in the hands of the exporters of frozen meat. FIRES AT BLENHEIM. BLENHEIM, December 2. The Fire Brigade had to answer three calls between midnight on Saturday and five o’clock yesterday morning. The first alarm was given after an outbreak in a five-roomed dwelling owned and occupied by T. J. Satherby, Eltham Road. A good save was effected. Two hours later the building again burst into flames, and together with the contents, was almost totally destroyed. The insurances are: House, £5OO in the State Office; contents, £2OO in the London, Liverpool and Globe office. The third fire occurred in the business section of the town, a building in Wynen Street, owned by E. H. Healy, M.P., bping partially destroyed. It was occupied by James Gordon as a tyrevulcanizer and motor service station, and W. Satherly, boot repairer. The insurance is £250 on the building in the New Zealand Office: Gordon is covered by £2OO in the Sun Office and Satherly by £lOO in the Sun Office.