DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 September 1934, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS

1 (PKB 78888 ASSOCIATION.] EXHIBITION HALL. HAMILTON, September 4. The erection of a spacious exhibition hall to cost £5600 was authorised by the executive of the Waikato Winter Show this morning. The hall will replace a large portion of the present obsolete building. The floor space in the new building amounts to 26,250 square feet. GISBORNE AERODROME.* GISBORNE, September 5. Consequent upon the failure of prolonged negotiations regarding the conditions of employment of relief workers on the xjarton field aerodrome, the Unemployment Board notified today, a decision to drop the proposition, which called for its £lO,OOO subsidy. MINER DROWNED. BLENHEIM, September 5? Albert Morris, 32, miner, engaged at Mountain Camp, Canvastown, fell from a launch in Ketu Bay, Pelorus Sounds, and was drowned. The body has not been recovered. Morris came from the Invercargill district, where both his parents were killed in a motor accident. FISHERMAN DROWNED. CHRISTCHURCH, September 4. A fisherman, Samuel Nicholson, formerly a seaman in New Zealand coastal vessels, was drowned at Cnatham Islands about August 20. Nicholson had been fishing for the trawler South Sea, and was lost overboard from a launch, which was bringing mail from Waitangi to the trawler. Nicholson was swept off the stern of the launch by a heavy sea, in darkness, and the men on the launch could not find him, although his cries for help could be heard. The boats of the fishing fleet assembled in the locality the following day, and a burial service was held. LEAGUE OF NATIONS UNION. WELLINGTON, September 5. The annual conference of the New Zealand League of Nations Union opened to-day, Mr F. H. Wilkinson presiding in the absence of Dr. Gibb, in Australia for health reasons. He said that Dr. Gibb had written tendering his resignation, and all would regret the severance of his intimate relations with the Union, of which he was the founder and prime mover. Mr Wilkinson said the membership had increased to about 500, indicating he thought people were beginning at last to realise the Union stood/for a new and better way of looking at the international situation.

TRUANT CHILDREN. GISBORNE, September 4. Three young children, named Maxwell, the son and two daughters, of Robert Maxwell, aged from seven to eleven years, who had been missing from their parents’ home since yesterday at eight o’clock in the morning, were found .at six o’clock tonight. They did not want to go to school yesterday, and they had hidden since then in a P. and T. pole dump near their parents’ residence! Searchers had visited the dump the previous night, and the children admit that they saw them, but they remained hidden. The children were tired and hungry, they having had no food since they left home but otherwise they were not injured.

TAKING TIMBER. BLENHEIM, September 5. An unusual case was heard in the Magistrate’s Court, this morning, when George Rutland Hart was charged with stealing one shilling’s worth of timber from the Blenheim Borough Council. It was explained by the prosecution that since the Blenheim sewerage undertaking commenced over £2OO worth of timber had disappeared, while the contractors had also lost large quantities, and this was the only instance in which evidence could be brought. The defence was that accused was an employee at a timber mill, and it was the custom in the industry for an employee to take off cuts or other waste vtimber, which had been done in this instance. Magistrate Maunsell said the amount involved, was -so small .and the conviction so serious a matter that he would dismiss the charge, but ruled that the accused was not entitled to the timber. - .