DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 April 1943, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS

RAILWAY MISHAP WHANGAREI, April 2 An engine and fourteen trucks were derailed at Ruatangata this morning, when a large boulder struck the engine. No one was injured.

FIRE AT FACTORY WELLINGTON, April 1. Damage estimated at several thousand pounds was caused by fire in a storeroom at the Glaxo factory at Bunnythorpe. The building was destroyed early this morning, but the brigade from Palmerston North prevented serious damage to the main building, where milk processing operations on a large scale are proceeding as usual.

BOY ELECTROCUTED. AUCKLAND, April 2. James Norman Spence, aged 13 years and nine months was electrocuted when he was gathering firewood from a tree which brought down some overhead wires in Jellicoe Road, Panmure, this morning. High winds last night blew the tree down and dragged down part of the overhead telephone circuit with it. Apparently one end of the wire became entangled with the low tension power line. The boy was found alive but died before an ambulance arrived.

LICENSEE’S APPEAL. CHRISTCHURCH, April 2. An appeal against his conviction under the Licensing Act Emergency Regulations, 1942, imposed on Dennis Coffey, hotel licensee, by Mr. Levvey S.M., was upheld by Mr. Justice Northcroft in the Supreme Court this morning. Coffey had pleaded not guilty to charges of allowing liquor to be consumed on licensed premises after hours, of exposing liquor for sale, and of selling liquor. A conviction was entered by the Magistrate, on the charge of selling, and Coffey was fined £lO. The other charges were withdrawn.

John James, barman-porter, was charged with supply liquor, and had pleaded guilty, being fined £lO. In a statement to the police, the licensee had said the barman had no right to sell liquor. The barman was in the bar for the purpose oi cleaning up. and the licensee did not know there were men in the bar. The evidence showed that when the police arrived, four men were in the bar. All had drinks supplied by the barman.

HONEY MARKETING CHRISTCHURCH, April 1. Replying to a statement by the Minister of Marketing (Mr Barclay) the President of the Canterbury Branch of the National Beekeepers Association (Mr W. B. Bray) said today that the Minister had not answered a demand from producers that the terms of the Prime Minister s Stabilisation Order be honoured. When honey came under the control of the Internal Mey.'keting Department the price offered was less than the producers had been receiving because the Department’s costs had to be deducted. “What beekeepers are asking,” said Mr Bray, “is that their standard income be maintained in accordance with the Stabilisation Order. The Government has found a way of doing this with regard to coal, and sugar. Can it do the same for honey? There is an implied threat in the Minister’s reference to petrol and tyres. The honey industry has had no more than its fair share of these items. If no hopey at all is produced these supplies .would still be justified by reason of the service rendered by bees in fertilising seeds and fruit.”

SCIENCE BURSARIES WELLINGTON, April 1.

The Minister’ of Education, Mr. Mason, announced that he has decided to award fifteen special bursaries. in science to students commencing their University courses at the beginning of 1944 and award a similar number annually in each succeeding year if the situation in regard to a great shortage of science teachers appeared to warrant it. The bursaries would be awarded to applicants who passed the entrance examination of the University of New Zealand or equivalent examinations approved for the purpose, or obtained a higher leaving certificate. Preference would be given to applicants who showed special proficiency in mathematics and science subjects. The bursars vzould be required to enter on a course for the degree of Bachelor of Science. The maximum term for a bursary would be four years, and the maximum value £7O annually, made up of a bursary allowance of £lO annually, tuition fees of a maximum value of £2O annually, together with, in the case of students who had to live away from home in order to pursue their studies a boarding allowance of £4O annually.