DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 February 1930, Page 9

DOMINION ITEMS

(Per Press Asaooi&tion.) SUICIDE BY SHOOTING. WANGANUI, February 17. A married man, W. Church, committed suicide at Maitihiwi, last night, shooting himself. He was employed by the Wanganui County Council. LABOUR CONFERENCE. WELLINGTON, February 17. Mr W. Nash, M.P., stated last night that he had refused nomination for the position of New Zealand Labour representative to attend tire Labour Conference at Geneva this year. NORTH AUCKLAND FLOODS. AUCKLAND, February 15. The weather is now clearing. Railway communication north of Kaipara Flats was interrupted by the floods. The Whangarei express, which left Auckland at 8.40 a.m. on Saturday, was held up at Kaipara Flats Station. There was six feet, of water on the line in the vicinity of Wayby. CHEMICALS EXPLODE. CHRISTCHURCH, February 16. R. Dumpleton, aged 16, a resident of Addington, was badly injured on Saturday afternoon when some chemicals, with which he was experimenting, exploded. He was admitted to the hospital, with injuries to his head and hands. His condition was satisfactory to-day. DR AYMAN C RUSHED. GISBORNE, February 17. A verdict of accidental death was returned at the inquest concluded this morning on Michael O’Grady, 72, killed on February 10, when a dray, on which he was riding capsized over a bank at the Kopua railway works, O’Grady’s head being crushed in. ST. PATRICK’S COLLEGE WELLINGTON, February 17. A contract has been let to Hansford Mills Construction Coy., for a new St. Patrick’s College at Silverstream near Heretaunga. It is understood that the price is approximately £95,000. The new building is to be completed within twelve months. WOMAN CHASES THIEF. DUNEDIN, February 17. At the Police Court, Henry Ernest Vincent Foote, charged with breaking and entering a house, and stealing money and jewellery was remanded till Friday. Accused was surprised in the house and was pursued by a lady who was later joined by two men. Accused was seized and handed over to the police. P. AND T. APPEALS DISMISSED. AUCKLAND, February 16. The Auckland “Star” states that all the appeals by *he telegraphists involved in .the recent betting allegations, have been dismissed by the Post and Telegraph Appeal Board. However, Mr E. C. Cutten, S.M., Chairman of the Board, when questioned today, would make no statement, beyond saying that the decision had been communicated to the appellants. FARMERS AND SCHOOLS. INVERCARGILL, February 15. At a meeting of the Southland Executive of the Farmers’ Union on Saturday, an emphatic protest was made against the proposed decapitation of the Edendale School, together with a protest against the action of the Minister of Education in failing to give Southland public bodies an opportunity to place evidence against the proposed system before the Education Commission, despite the fact that the Association knows that there was distinct opposition in Southland to the scheme.

£2OOO COMPENSATION AWARDED? WELLINGTON, February 17. Two thousand pounds, the full amount of his claim, was awarded by I the jury in the Supreme Court to I Horace John Moon, labourer, who had brought a petition of right against the Crown. The case was the aftermath of a fatal accident at Moera railway workshops last May, when a railway employee was killed, and three others injured by the’ fall of several heavy steam heaters. Moon was severely injured, and would, according to medical evidence, suffer permanent disability, heavy work in future being quite impossible. PAINTINGS RECOVERED. WELLINGTON, February 15 Mr Murray Fuller received news this morning from Ovaka that nine additional pictures had been recovered from the Manuka wreck area. The pictures have not yet arrived in Wellington, and Mr Fuller is not certain as to the ecudition of the salxed works. However, tiie fact that th? titles of some cf the pictures have been got from the backs of the canvas proves that they must be in fair order. The titles of the oil paintings recovered are: —“Down-Fall-ing Stream.” by S. J. Lamorna Birch : “Moonlight off Falmouth,” by Julius Olsson-/“After the Bathe.” by Algernon Talmage; “Land’s End.” by Dame Laura Knight; “The Transient Hour,” Jiy Lucy Kempwelch ; “Fishermen al Concancau,” by Sydney Thompson; “The Ohl Nurse,” by Harold Speed. Another, described as “Interior with Chair and Table before Window,” is probably an interior by James Durden, R. 0.1. MORE NIGHT EXPRESSES. HAWERA, February 16. According to advice received by Mr I-I. G. Dickie. M.P., the inauguration of a night express service, to run three times weekly, between Wellington and Taranaki, may be expected next month. Information to this effect was given to the Hawera Chamber of Commerce by Mr Dickie last evening, when he read' a letter received from the Minister of Railways. The matter has now been brought to the stage where a time table has been formulated, states the Minister’s letter. It is proposed that a night train shall leave Wellington on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays, at 10.36 p.m., arriving at New Plymouth at 8.15 a.m. A return train will leave New Plymouth on Mondays, Wednesdays anil Fridays at 9.10 p.m., arriving at Wellington at 6.32 a.m. The Railway Department expects to be in a position to commence running these trains about the middle of March.