DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 April 1938, Page 7

DOMINION ITEMS

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CARRYING CHARGES. HAMILTON, April 21. At the first meeting of its kind held in No. 1 Licensing Authority’s district, carriers and interested Parties met at Ngaruawahia in an effort to fix a scale of carrying charges to apply to the whole of Raglan County, authority <Mr. E. J gave the parties the opportunity to settle the matter between themselves at a conference at which he was not Pl Aa no agreement could be reached, the . ’authority will now fix a scale of charges. Mr. Phelan explained that the meeting was of great im P° as the scale arrived at . .for the Ragr lan area would be used ’as a basis in framing schedules for other districts.

FOXTON JUBILEE. FOXTON, April 21. N More than 100 old residents participated in the old identities’ luncheon held to-day to mark the of the four days’ celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the declaration of Pox. ton as a borough. The Mayor (Mr. M. E. Perreau) presided. Each old identity was presented with a floral token. Representatives of district local bodies attended, and a toastlist was honoured. The history of Foxton from the first settlement in 1843 was traced by the Mayor, who referred to the sterling service of the pioneers. The first Mayor was Mr. Ernest B. Thynne in 1888. Since then |S others •had occupied the position, with a. .re-cord-set by -the . present . Mayor of ,L< years’ continuous service.' .

ESCAPED PRISONER. - AUCKLAND, April : 21. f A. widespread search’ by, still being made for Cdl|ii < Williapr Glass, aged 26, a prisoner at the Walkeria Institute,'.,Te Awamutu,/. who made a daring escape last; Monday.. It , was discovered earlier in the ;week. , that a pair of trousers ha'd> been stolen from a. milking shed about an ;■ hour’s walking distance from the institute, but a thorough combing of the area for the fugitive has met with no success. Although the actual hunt has been concentrated in the Waikeria district, police inquiries have extended much further afield, and' a vigilant watch is being kept throughout the North Island. * Roads in the Te Awamutu area, in particular, have been subjected.to close surveillance. Several reports have been received • by the police in several .centres on the activities of suspicious strangers. One of these came from Bruntwood, in the’ Cambridge district, where a Hamilton motorist noticed a man of similar f appearance to the escaped prisoner in a hedge. Investigation, however, yielded no results- i CLOTHING TRADE. WELLINGTON, April 21. “All I said I stand by,” said the Minister'for Labour (Hon. H. T. Armstrong), when asked to comment today on the statement by the general secretary of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation . (Mr. M. R. O’Shea), on the shortening of staffs in the clothing trade. In his statement Mr. O’Shea said that the Minister in his earlier comment on the position had accused the employers of dismissing workers in order to make a stronger impression on the Government. The position was exactly the opposite of that stated by the Minister, Mr. O’Shea added. “I said that in some cases, manufacturers’ difficulties were sometimes caused by inefficient management or over-capitalisation of. . industry or both,”’ Mr. Armstrong said, in a further statement, to-day. .91 did not apply that statement to. this particular case, because I do not know the position.’ Mr. Armstrong said he could quite understand Mr. O’Shea making the statement he had done. “That is his job,” he said. . ' : .

THEFT FROM MATE. AUCKLAND, April 21. The story of a trip from Auckland to Wellington on money stolen .on the waterfront was told in the Magistrate s Court when Gordon Robert Edwardsaged 22, of Kaitaia, pleaded..guilty to. the theft, on April 1/of. £3O, the property of Charles Madley. > . ' • The police said that Edwards, fell in with a boy who had deserted from his ship, and they co-operated in a plan, to steal money from the, mate of the trawler Coastguard. They travelled_to Wellington, where, it was : alleged, Edwards took £l5 from the boy while he was asleep. They met again on the train. The boy threatened to hand Edwards over to the police. They thereupon set out to share the money untir it was finally exhausted. The Magistrate. '.Mr. F, K. 'Hunt, S.M., remanded Edwards for a week, because the boy has finally to be dealt with in the Children’s Court. v y