DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 July 1936, Page 16

DOMINION ITEMS

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SELF HELP. WELLINGTON, July 1.

The Self Help Store, in High Street, Lower Hutt, was entered by thieves, and goods valued at between £2O and £3O, mostly tobacco and cigarettes, were stolen. Entrance was effected by boring through the floor boards.

PUBLIC SERVICE

INVERCARGILL. July 2

A large meeting representing all branches of the Public Service, last evening, decided to form a branch of the Institute of Public Administration. This is the first, branch to be formed outside the four main centres. Officers were appointed, and good results are anticipated.

STOCK IMPORTS. WELLINGTON. July 2

The Royal Agricultural Society con-, ference.-by an overwhelming majority, adopted a remit directing the Government be asked to alloAy the direct importation of stock from Britain. There were similar remits from Masterton A. and P„ Southdown Sheep Society, Zealand Pig-breeders Association. A remit opposing, came from the Matamata A. and P. Association.

WOOL LEVY

WELLINGTON, July 1.

The principle of a wool levy to provide funds for research and propaganda to combat the competition of other textiles and synthetic fibres, was unanimously approved at the annual meeting of the Royal Society of Agriculture. Mr A. H. Cockayne announced that he was at the moment endeavouring to finalise the preparation of legislation dealing with a levy on wool.

MINISTER’S SEA BURIAL.

AUCKLAND, July 1.

Borne many miles beyond Hauraki Gulf, on the Rev. Jasper Calder’s seagoing motor yacht, “Crusader," the body of Rev. J. F. A. Stimpson, a veteran Anglican Minister and former chaplain to the North Sea trawling fleet, was buried at sea in over 100 fathoms of water. The sea burial, which w’as conducted by. Mr Calder, was carried out at the express request of Mr Stimpson. He had been many trips on the “Crusader,” and before his death, which occurred on Monday, he asked that he be buried from that boat.

CHURCH SCANDAL. HAMILTON, July 2.

Describing the conditions as a disgrace to the church, several clerical members of the Waikato Diocesan Synod strongly criticised the conditions and stipends of back-block priests. It was stated that several priests virtually worked their parishes on less than £2OO per annum, and were expected to pay the costs of transport. .The Synod referred the matter to the Standing Committee, for investigation.

The Vicar-General (Archdeacon Gavin), stated that the attention of all church people should be drawn to the state of affairs.

STOLEN RABBIT-SKINS DUNEDIN, July 1.

“The offence was calculated and deliberate,’’ said the Magistrate, Mr. Bartholomew, in the Police Court this morning, in sentencing James Nicholas Gordon Hoskin to three months’ imprisonment, with hard labour, for the theft of rabbit-skins. “The offence was a difficult one to detect.”

Hoskin was charged with the theft at Dunedin, on or about May 22. of a quantity of rabbit, skins, valued at £l4, the property of Dalgety and Co., or, alternatively, of some persons unknown.

The Magistrate said that expert evidence showed that the skins could not have been obtained as the accused stated. It had been clearly established that these were stolen skins. In a written statement, the accused said that he had been trapping, shooting and digging out rabbits at his father’s farm, at Totara, since the beginning of the year.