DOMINION NEWS.

Grey River Argus, 28 November 1927, Page 7

DOMINION NEWS.

THIEVES’ MIXED HAUL.

CHRISTCHURCH, November 26.

The premises of the People’s Retail Market, Bath Street, were broken into on Friday evening, and a grocer’s shop robbed of £3O worth of cigarettes and tobacco, and about 15s in coppers. A butcher’s in the building lost a leg of mutton. A door was found to have been forced. The thief or thieves missed a big stock of tobacco in the grocery store. NEW LOCOMOTIVES. WELLINGTON, Nov. 25. A contract for the supply of three super-heater tank locomotives for the Government was signed at Thames yesterday, with A. and G. Price, by G. S. Lynde, Chief Mechanical Engineer, and N. Ewart, Chief Clerk, Engineering Branch, who conducted the negotiations It is expected that the locomotives will be delivered within the next six months for use on the main lines in New Zealand. LENGTHY HOSPITAL TREATMENT. DUNEDIN, Nov. 23. The hardships imposed on the small central Otago hospital districts, where many people suffering lung disease take up residence, was discussed by the Otago Hospital Board, it being pointed out that by the amendment to the Hospital Act, making three months’ residence a qualification, many people .from other parts of the Dominion are being treated in Waipiata sanatorium. It was stated that whereas the North Island sanatoria arc run by the Government, the South Island ones are conducted by Boards. AUCKLAND TRAMWAYS. AUCKLAND, November 25. The City Council decided last night to revert (probably in mid-Deeember) to the old schedule of section, and to introduce the former scale of cash fares obtaining before the, present system was initiated in October for six months’ trial. Concession cards will provide for discount of 23 per cent., this rate being loss liberal than pre-October scale. The most striking effect of the now' schedule is the abandonment of penny sections and alteration of shortened sections near the city to the original length. In the report to the Council, the Chairman of the Tramways Committee stated that the average weekly revenue for October showed a reduction of £959, which the undertaking could not sustain, particuclarly in view of the continued losses on buses which on the fortnight period ended November 12th, worked out at £76,800 annually (excluding capital charges and depreciation). NAVAL RESERVES DIRECTOR. WELLINGTON, November 25. Mr Rolleston says that Captain Middleton, newly appointed Director of Naval Reserves, has taken up his duties at Wellington, and is taking immediate steps to form a local divition. Preference will be given mercantile marine officers who served during the war.