DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 March 1945, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

FLIGHT SERGEANT KILLED WELLINGTON, March 24.

Flight-Sergeant James Dempsey. R.N.Z.A.F., was killed on Thursday night, when a Corsair in which he was carrying out night flying training, hit the ground at Ihumatac Beach, near Mangere. His mother is Mrs J. Z. Dempsey, of St. Andrew s.

DEGREES CONFERRED WELLINGTON, March 23. The following degrees were conferred on students of Canterbury University College to-day:— Master of Arts. —George Guy, m economics, B.Sc., and Peter Dill Sears, in geography, B.Com. Bachelor of Arts.—Stanley Marshall Cook, William John Gilmour, Edward Lunn, B.Sc.- Douglas Kerr Mac Diarmid, Jack Harvey Pennycook, Arthur Osborne Stanley, Bertram Bernard Tier, Harold William Boom Webber, and lan Bendall Wilson. „ . T Bachelor of Science. —Peter Jenings Gill, William Barrie Jackson and Richard Alexander Samuel Waters. Bachelor of Laws. —William Geoffrey Clive Dawson and Donald George Sinclair.

FIVE VEHICLES COLLIDE AUCKLAND, March 23. Five motor vehicles were involved in a series of collisions when smoke from a grass fire in vacant sections obscured visibility on the Great North road, opposite Chamberlain Park, Western Springs, about 4.30 p.m. Two people were injured, one seriously. They were: — Robert Smith, driver, aged 34, single, of New Lynn, head injuries. He was admitted to the Auckland Hospital and his condition is serious. John Goddard, mechanic, aged 29, of New Lynn, injuries to the face. He was treated at the Auckland Hospital and discharged. Of the vehicles travelling toward the city, ope pulled up in dense smoke and others following ran into the vehicles in front. The injured men were in a bus.. ; Meanwhile, the Point Chevalier Fire Brigade was fighting the fire.

“SPITTOON FINANCIERS.” TAIHAPE, March 23. Moving a vote of censure on the Government for its proposal to seize the Bank of New Zealand, Mr. Vivian Smith coined a new term —“spittoon financiers” —at the close of an address at Taihape by Mr. E. B. Gordon, member for Rangitikei. . Mr. Smith said that personally he thought everyone had confidence in men who had made a success of their own business. When one looked over the personnel of the Labour Party, where were such men, capable of running one of the biggest financial institutions? . , , • Mr. Semple had coined an apt phrase, “Spittoon philosophers,” and apparently now they were to have some “spittoon financiers.” Mr. Nash had been forced into a corner by one of these men who had never made a success of his own business. Mr. Gordon defended the salary increases of members of Parliament, which was part of the National Partyelection platform in 1943, he said. The National Party wondered if Mr. Fraser would “do the decent thing and ask Mr. Holland to join the New Zealand delegation at the San Francisco conference.