DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 October 1930, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] , POWER STATION TRAGEDY. ROTORUA, October 3. At the inquest on the body of John Weir, who met his death at Okare Falls, on October 1, a verdict was returned of accidental death by drowning. COLERIDGE OUTLOOK. CHRISTCHURCH, October 3. The level of Lake Coleridge ienains steady at 1658.9 ft, and the in-1 flow from Harper River at 200 cusecs. Reports from Harper watershed statu that there is snow lying heavily on the mountains, and only a good norwest rain is required to bring Lie river up into a torrent. NO INCOME TAX RETURNS. WELLINGTON, October 3. Edward Kennedy, secretary of the Cooks’ and Stewards’ Union, for failure to make returns of income tax, during the past four years, was fined £5 on one charge and £2 on each of the others. George De Rolfe Mitchinson, on a similar charge, was fined £3. DROWNED FISHERMEN. WELLINGTON, October 2. No trace of the bodies of the three men who were lost from the launch on Tuesday night was found to-day, though a thorough search of the coast was made, as the weather was calmei. Preparations for dragging were made. It is anticipated that to-morrow will be fine, and a large number of men and several boats will go out to drag

for tho bodies. CAR KILLS CHILD. WAIPUKURAU, October 3. When backing a motor car from a shed along the drive to the roadside, this morning, John K. Lee, Resident Engineer of the Central Hawke’s Bay Power Board, did not notice that his youngest son, two years old, had run out behind the car. In consequence, tho car passed over the child, who was apparently killed instantly, as on arrival at tho hospital, only a few yards distant from his home, the doctors pronounced life extinct. MILITARY TRAINING WELLINGTON, October 2. General orders for the reorganisation of the New Zealand military forces at the dictates of the financial stringency, have been issued by Major General R. Young. As a temporary measure, the Territorial Force will be reduced to the cadre basis, and the training of senior cadets will be confined to the secondary schools. The official order contains an appeal 'for wholehearted support of the officers and N.C.O. ranks in maintaining the spirit of the past. The present divisional organisation will remain and the aim is to retain a means of providing a highly trained cadre of regular solIdiers for mobilisation, peace training and administrative requirements. The system will provide for the training of GOO officers and two thousand warrant officers and N.C.O.’s of the Territorial Force, while 300 officers and sixteen thousand secondary school cadets will also be on the training list. CATHEDRAL SQUARE. WELLINGTON, October 3. The hearing of the Christchurch City Council v. Attorney General, was resumed at the Court of Appeal this morning. The Court continued to examine plans and relevant statutes and ordinances. Mr O’Shea for the appealant corporation, said the land in dispute became a street by virtue of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1867, and the Ordinances of the Canterbury Provincial Council in 1858, 1859 and 1864. The Cathedral Square ordinance passed by provincial council, 1872, did not affect any land which had become a street under the Municipal Corporations Act, 1867. Section 4 of that ordinance gave the superintendent of the province power to close the highway then existing over a portion of the land in dispute, but he did not do so, and the land had maintained the character of a highway down to the present time. WANG AN UI LOA DIN GS. WANGANUI, October 3. A representative well-attended Conference of delegates from dairy factories over a wide area, who are doing business with Wanganui port, met this morning, and carried a resolution: That the meeting protests against the action of the Dairy Control Board in completing an agreement with oversea shipping companies, which restricts the exportation of dairy produce, through the port of Wanganui, and expresses the opinion that the conditions should not have been agreed to by the Board, in the interests of the dairy industry, because it. establishes a precedent- for interference throughout New Zealand with the right of dairy factories to ship their produce through any grading port. It asks the Minister of Agriculture to request the Board to take immediate steps to re-establish the conditions which obtained at Wanganui, prior to the coming into force of the present new agreement. A further resolution requested Parliament to take a plebiscite of the dairy industry with a. view to the abolition of the Board.