DOMINION NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 16 December 1927, Page 9

DOMINION NEWS.

AUCIv LAND TRAMWAY MEN’S GRIEVANCE. (BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND. Dec. 16. Special meetings of the Auckland Tramways Union will he held on Monday morning and evening, owing to the men taking exception to a notice warning motonnen that good conduct holidays may be lost if they converse with passengers. They contend that overcrowding. against which the union line rateste’d. makes it imperative that passengers congregate on the platform and incidentally address questions to motor men. ANOTHER HAUL BY ‘ ‘ THE BORERS.” CHRISTCHURCH, Dee. IG. Goods to the value of £SO were stolen from the shop of J. H. Reynolds, chemist of Papanui. It was the work of the gang known as “The Borers,” because of their methods of baring holes in the doors of premises entered. Their total haul during their operations here is about £2OOO. Detectives say that they are Australian cracksmen. HUMAN REMAINS FOUND IN GLACIER. TIMARU, Dec. IG. What is believed to be the remains of a victim of the disaster of 1914, in which three men lost their lives, has been discovered in the Hochstetter Glacier, 17 miles from the Hermitage. They consist of a leg, a hand, and part of the scalp with auburn hair, §kull bones, a rope, and an ice axe. INFANT OWNER OF A HORSE. CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. IG. The New Zealand Trotting Board has refused an apjilication for the horse in the name of a boy aged four, on the ground that it could have no jurisdiction over an infant. The horse iiad been presented to the boy by his grandfather living in Gore. TEENTIIAM SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS WELLINGTON, Dec. 16. The executive committee of the Trentham Scholarship 'War Fund has considered applications for bursaries for 1928. Two hundred and eightythree applications were received, a large increase over previous years, and 230 were awarded, covering £4930. WOOL SALE AT DUNEDIN. DUNEDIN, Dee. 16. For the first wool sale at Dunedin on Monday, the offerings total about 19,00 Obales, a larger number than at the December sales last year. TRAGEDY IN HARBOUR! FEARED. AUCKLAND, Dee. 16. The mate of the ferry Makona, discovered fij woman’s coat and umbrella on a seat after the boat left Devonport at' 10..30 p.m. for Auckland last evening. She bad been travelling to and fro since before nine o’clock. It is thought that the Worn an may have ju m peel overiboiard.