GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 July 1924, Page 7

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

, ACQUITTED. (BY TEIiEGKAPH—PREBS ASSObIAIION' i ' hokitika; juhe ac>. ; ’At the Supreme - Court sittings to day before Mr Justice Adams, the' only criminal charge was one of altered burglary and theft from a ‘shop. The accused, [ Richard Arthur Nash, was acquitted. . , ; . ■ losses by Flip.., . AUCKLAND, June \ The fire loss in, the . Auckland metropolitan area for the .twelve.', months ended; to-dayf totalled ?conipared With £58,945 tor the nrevious edtrespondihg .period. .The total v risk in the- buildings and contents concerned whs £844v753, 'compared w'ith ,£296 5 277 for the /previous year. The alarms numbered 283 v an increase df sixty, and fires numbered ,129, compared with 126 in the previous year. , . ; FORTY-FOUR HOUR. WEEK. . .WELLINGTON, June 03: "That, legislation should be introduced providingvihat a forty-four .hour week should be made the law of the land’’ was a>request made to the Minister for- Labour,. Mr Anderson, jo/day by a deputation from the Alliaiice of Labour. The Minister, held out no hope, holding that- this was a matter for the -Arbitration Court to decide. APPEAL COURT. WELLINGTON, June 30. Tlie Appeal Court session began today. At present only nine cases are set down for hearing, and the first business was the fixing of dates, foir,them. A MILD WINTER. WELLINGTON, July 1. Wellington is enjoying a remarkably mild winter so far. The rainfall has been .much below r the average, and the weather for the past fortnight has been mild and like' spring, with a notable absence of cold winds

N.Z. RHODES SCHOLAR, > WELLINGTON, June 30. The new Rhodes Scholar, Dr. R. S. Aitken, of the University of Otago, arrived in- Wellington, by the Napier train to-night to join the liner Pakeha, which sails .at daybreak to-morrow for the Old Country. On behalf of the New Zealand Government. the Prime Minister (Rt v Hon. W., F. Massey) sent Dx;. Aitken the, following message to-day : “Accept from myself and mv colleagues in Cabinet our hearty good wishes on the eve of leaving -to take up vour Rhodes Scholarship. I feel sure, that you w ill worthily uphold the splendid reputation winch our previous Rhodes scholars have wtori for New Zealand. The Dominion will watch your progress with keen interest;” , - , ... P. AND T. APPEAL BOARD. WELLINGTON, Jvine 30: The Post and Telegraph Appeal-Board returned' from Christchurch- on Sunday and reopened its sititngs in. Wellington to-day. The work to. be in Wellington will occupy about) a week/ after which the board proceeds fo Auckland. The number of appeals for. the ; whole Dominion is about 200.' . The board comprises , Messrs E C. Cutten S.M. (chairman), R. B. Reynolds (postal officials’ representative) ; R. H. Brow n - (telegraph officers’ representative), and H. P. Donald (chief postmaster, Timaru, representing the Department).

ACTION AGAINST CITY COUNCIL, WELLINGTON, July 1. The Roseneath Progressive Association has carried out their threat to take action for an injunction to prevent the City Council constructing an inclined tramway from Oriental Bay to the heights above. Yesterday the corporation was served with a writ requiring a stay of the work/ which has already been begun on the lift, until the case is heard by the Supreme Court. The grounds are' that the lift will not provide access to Roseneath, and that the money was voted for a road and may not be diverted to other purposes.