DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 July 1941, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS

NOT GUILTY. TIMARU, July 15. In the Supreme Court to-day, Leslie Stanislaus Dixon, was found not guilty on the charge of publishing a subversive statement. The jury retired for less than an hour. COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE. WELLINGTON, July 16. Bernard Mervyn Godfrey Staples, 24, was committed for sentence at the Supreme Court, on a charge of unlawfully attempting to supply a noxious thing. __ MOTORIST FINED. WELLINGTON, July 16. Fines of £5, with costs, on each, were imposed on Kenneth George Sharp, who admitted before the Magistrate (Mr. Stout) charges of negligent driving "and failure to report to the police an accident involving injury, defendant knocking a man over when passing a standing tramcar. Counsel said that defendant did stop. He looked back, and saw die man was being attended to. fine cat was borrowed and defendant wanted to notify the owner before getting into communication with the police. It was stated that the accident occurred at ten o’clock, and defendant reported it at 2.15 in the morning. BREAD TENDERS AUCKLAND, July 14. A heated discussion on tenders for the supply of bread to the Auckland Hospital marked a meeting o± the board to-night. The chairman (Mr. Allan Moody) said that he objected to the action of three leading city firms in offering a combined tender, and proposing to each take four months of the year’s contract. He said he had approached another suburban firm, and moved that it be offered the contract. Members alleged unfairness, as the suburban firm had not tendered, fi’he chairman was criticised, for refusing an interview to the three firms, but seeing the suburban firm. It was pointed out, that although the tenders of the three firms had twice been rejected as being not in order, the finance committee had written to several firms asking for prices and sam - pies to be submitted at noon to-mor-row. It was stated that the board could not fairly offer the contract to the other firm before these had been inspected. The motion of the chairman offering the contract to the suburban firm was carried by six votes to five.

DWELLERS IN TENTS AUCKLAND, July 16. Twelve families living in tents at the Western Springs motor camp received notices yesterday from the City Council to vacate. They held a meeting last night, and decided, as no houses or flats were available, they would remain until the matter was taken to Court. When a reporter visited the camp, to-day, he found the campers living in very damp conditions. One family of five, the eldest child aged seven years, were in a leaky tent. “I was transferred to Auckland, but could not find a house. I cannot afford to pay board for all of us. What am I to do?” asked the father. When the Mayor (Mr. Allum) was interviewed, he said that some people had taken to using the camp as a residential site. One family had been there for nine months, and others for varying periods since January. What brought it to a head was that one man and his wife were reported to be living in the camp in leaky-tent conditions. The Western Springs camp was one of the best in Summer, but was unsuitable for living purposes in Winter. The regulations were being revised.—P.A. NURSES FROM CRETE. WELLINGTON, July 15. “The nurses work long hours in a difficult climate, and deserve the very best we can give them,” states Lieu-tenant-Colonel F. Waite, overseas commissioner for the National Patriotic Fund Board, after giving details. in a report to the board, on the arrangements made for New Zealand nurses on their return from Greece and Crete.

A number of nurses, says Colonel Waite, needed quiet and rest. He tried to get them, 20 at a time, into a good hotel; but every spare room in every hotel was occupied by refugees from Jugoslavia and Greece. Eventually it was decided to send the nurses to the Y.W.C.A. hostel, and give each girl back from Crete 10 days’ board free. Most of the girls availed themselves of this. -

Colonel Waite also refers to the financial assistance given to the British Y.W.C.A. towards the cost of reconditioning a houseboat on the Nile for the use of nurses, and of an arrangement, when this work is completed, for cabins on the houseboat to be made available to New Zealand nurses when required. He says he is sure this is the best way to provide for nurses. Colonel Waite also pays a tribute to the work of the Y.W.C.A. The service that the Y.W.C.A. renders, he says, is beyond praise, and no work is more efficiently done in Egypt than theirs.