DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 March 1933, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

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PALMERSTON N- March 10

At the Magistrate’s Court. Allred Dewar, 45, pleaded guilty, ami was fined £lOO on a charge of frequenting the street, for betting.

MAORI BOY ELECTROCUTED. NAPIER, March 9

Through coming in contact with a 11.000 volt power line, a thirteen-year-old Maori bov. Tetarihi Arapata. Hakimai, was fatally electrocuted at Fernhill this evening.

The deceased climbed a 70 foot power pole to look for cows. AV hen he came in contact, with the line, he tell to tho ground, ami he was found dead with his clothes burning. Death was apparently instantaneous.

STOLEN BRASS. AUCKLAND, March 10

Arrested yesterday, in Otahuhu Railway workshop yards, Horace Arthur Owen. 34, seaman, was remanded today, on a charge of stealing brass fittings from a locomotive. The poice said that complaints were received of somebody dismantling railway engines, and yesterday a detective found Owen taking brass. The total damage done was £l2O, but it was not suggested that accused w r as responsible for it all.

AUCKLAND MILK “WAR.” AUCKLAND, March 9.

A decision to reduce the price of loose milk to 3d a. quart, and of bottled milk to 4d a quart, in order to compete with the newly-formed Farmers’ and Vendors’ Association, was made at a meeting of milk vendors and farmers. The spirit of the meeting was ' summed up in the words of one vendor: “There has been a declaration of war,” ho said. "We cannot afford to sell milk at 3d a. quart, but we must be prepared to do so for an indefinite period rather than lose our trade.” Mr. Haslam said that the action of the Farmers’ and Vendors’ Association had resulted in an almost impossible position. The alternatives were going out of business, or fighting against the new position. CAR AND TRAM COLLIDE. NEW PLYMOUTH, March 9. Four persons suffered injury in a head on collision between a traincar and a motor car this afternoon. No one in the crowded tram was injured, but the motor car was badly wrecked. The driver, Mrs Matthews, a widow, suffered severe shock and slight concussion. Arthur Slade, a boy aged 10 years, had a broken jaw and bruises. A girl. Delia Matthews, aged five, and another boy, Noel B. Matthews, aged 13, suffered severe shock and abrasions.

The motor car was telescoped and the wreckage was partly under the tram. When the tram backed out, smoke issued from underneath, but there was no serious fire.

EDUCATION RESEARCH ’WELLINGTON, March 9

Following on the successful establishment in Australia of a Council for Research in Education, organised on a national basis, under the direction of Mr. Frank Tate, the trustees of the Carnegie Corporation, New York, have nominated a special committee to investigate and report on the possibilities of a similar foundation in New Zealand. The committee -which has been nominated from New York consists of Professor T. A. Hunter, ViceChancellor of the University of New Zealand (convener); Mr. Duncan Rae, Principal of the Auckland Training College; and Mr. Frank Milner, President of the New Zealand Secondary Schools’ Association. The committee held a preliminary meeting at Wellington, to consider the proposals submitted from New York. It is impressed Tvith the great potentialities of such an educational development. The committee, realising its great responsibility, decided to consult not only the Department of Education and the University, but all other educational organisations in the Dominion, with a view’ to drawing up an authoritative report which will demonstrate to the Carnegie Trustees not only the advisability of such a foundation, but its endorsement in New Zealand hv all interested in education.