DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 October 1933, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[per press association.] MISSING LAUNCH WELLINGTON, September 29. A search party this morning found what is believed to be part of the missing launch Santina. The wreckage consisted of planking. to which was attached pieces of a rib such as is used in the construction of launches of the Santina’s build. It was found on the beach near the remains of the Devon wreck. AFTER-DANCE DISPUTE. BLENHEIM, October 2. As a sequel to a midnight affray after a dance on Saturday, a showman named Clement Herbert Downes, 20 appeared at the Court chargee wi i causing actual bodily harm to Lmds<. Gordon Glass. He was remanded foi ci week. The police stated that Glass who was struck with a bottle, was in hospital with scalp wounds, but his condition was not serious. A dispute arose over seeing a young lady- home, and they were coming to blows.

COUNTERFEIT COINS. WELLINGTON, October 3. Two relief workers, William George Hart, aged 43, and William Babbage 47, were charged before Mr Stilwell, at the Magistrate’s Court to-day, with uttering a counterfeit coin, and were remanded till October 4 on bail of £25. Detective Sergeant Revell said that accused, both residents of Wellington, had issued a number of coins to paper sellers on Saturday night, and the detectives found in their possession, moulds for making coins.

WHARF DISPUTE.

CHRISTCHURCH, October 2

As the result of a. dispute over the employment of a permanent man instead of a casual on the work of checking trucks, the steamer Gale, to have sailed at noon for northern norts, and the Awahou to have sailed this afternoon for East Coast ports, are idled at Lyttelton. The watersiders engaged left for their homes, after protesting at the Railways Department’s action. WELLINGTON FIGURES. WELLINGTON, October 1. Net Customs revenue collected at Wellington during September, showed a. drop of nearly £20,000, compared with September of last year, the figures being £144,557 and £163,802 respectively. The actual decrease was £19,245. So far this year, Customs revenue has yielded £1,405,695, as against. £1,544,543 for the corresponding period of 1932, a fall of £138,848. MR. BAXTER’S VISIT WELLINGTON, September 30. Mr. T. Baxter, representative of the National Farmers’ Union of England and Wales, who is visiting New Zealand to place before the farmers the British position with regard to the importation to England of overseas produce, has arrived in Wellington after a tour of some nine days, during which he has studied conditions in the chief agricultural centres. Mr. Baxter had a conference with the New Zealand Dairy Produce Board to-day. The conference was private. It will be continued on Monday. No statement was made available to the press " to-day. Mr. Baxter will be a passenger by the Makura on Tuesday for England, via America

LAKE-BED INVESTIGATIONS. WELLINGTON, September 30. Dr C. C. Caldenium, Lecturer’ in Geology at Stockholm University, has arrived by the Wanganella to investigate in the Rakaia Valley, Canterbury, some old lake bed deposits that were discovered and described by Professor Speight. In an interview, Dr Caldenius explained that the Swedish geologist, De Geer, had found that the stratification in lake bottoms gave an exact record, year by year, of the deposits of river silt, and thus showed the actual character of the weather year by year’, as well as the character of a long period of climatic changes. This afforded valuable evidence in regard to glacial periods. He had come to New .Zealand specially to investigate the Rakaia deposits, an opportunity he had sought for many years.