DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 September 1940, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] I — • I OPIUM RAID. I WELLINGTON, September 18. I Following a raid on Chinese premises in Haining Street, in connection with opium smoking, the occupier was ■ fined £5O, and 10 others were each fined £25 for being found there. LAND COMPENSATION. PALMERSTON N., September 17. The Compensation Court to-day delivered a majority award in a claim. by F. S. Easton, of Foxton, for nearly £120,000 for 4,565 acres of land near Foxton taken by the Crown for flax development research. The amount awarded was £62,385. WELLINGTON WATERSIDERS. WELLINGTON, September 17. At a meeting of the Executive of the Wellington Waterside Workers’ Union, held to-day, a resolution that the Union had full confidence in Mr. T. N. Warren and appreciated the able manner in which he conducted the case for fair play for the waterside workers from the Waterside Commission, was carried. FARMER KILLED. INVERCARGILL, September 17. Severe injuries from which fie died this morning were suffered by William Haldane, a farmer, aged 74, of Niagara, on Sunday evening when the motor-car which he was cranking, and which was in gear, ran over him. The accident occurred at Progress Valley, two and a-half miles from Haldane’s home. He was taken to hospital in Invercargill on Monday. He died at 6.55 o’clock this morning.