DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 December 1925, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[bT rELEOSiPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CAPSIZED. AUCKLAND, Dee. 11. The dredge Rover, owned by M'Culliim Brothers, shingle merchants, capsized at Paljihi Island, and lies in seventy feet of water. It will he difficult to salve tier.

THAMES HARBOUR IMPROVEMENT. THAMES, Dec. 10. The tender of limits, of Auckland, of £5825 has been accepted for the full tide walls for the new harbour. Eight were received, the highest being just under ten thousand sterling. The .suction dredge is now being constructed, -a within twelve months the greater portion of the scheme should lie completed. MANUKA HELD UP. CHRISTCHURCH, Dee. 10. The Manuka was to have sailed from Lyttelton at ten yesrereve. hut was delayed owing to two firemen being missing. She is still held up and no others are offering at the ordinary rate of pay. Ihe vessel has a hundred passengers who are suffering inconvenience. ANNIVERSARY' DAY. CH It ISTCH UHC’H . Dec. It;. To-day being Anniversary Day in Canterbury, was observed as a partial holiday. Special celebrations were held at Lyttelton in connect ion with the landing.

A SCR'iDK. BLENHEIM. Dee. it;. Erin -I < icorge Edward-. 59. a joiner, hung li. 111-ell ill an outhouse of his duelling in Redwood I nun this morning. He recently suffered a breakdown and had been depressed lor some time. WHEAT GROWERS CONFERENCE. GOVERNMENT CONTROL URGED. CHRISTCHURCH, Dee. 10. A meeting ol tht- Canterbury Wheat Growers was held here this morning. .From speeches a wide diversity of opinion was evident as to the need of control. .Many lively arguments ensued with noisy in terjections. I'iie Wheat Glowers' Conference finally passed a motion urging Government control tor a period u| three ONE YEAR'S PROBATION. PALMERSTON X.. Dee. 10. Jacob Anderson link and Arthur Percy Oliver Miller, both middle aged Hit'll, who pleaded guilty in the Lower Court ai Woodt ille to charges ot stealing one slice]!, appeared lor sentence at the Supreme Court this morning. (nun-el for the prisoners said that l.ntii had horn. 1 goo I <ha rail el's. tin* motive actuating the crime uu- nni a pecuniary gain, Hut to provide hmi for their wives and families, which t!:ev were not otherwise able to ob-

tain. Ilis Honour: Nut able to obtain loud on seventeen shillings per day. ( oiinsel replied that tilth teen Her** in (lehi. It nil were admitted to probation b .' rue year on e unlit ion I inn each paid all costs nt |be prosecution. Miller to 1 ake out a pn hi I .it lon order.

M \ Rli lED TE\( HERS. I NFA Hi CUM Pint i'l'lON. AUCKLAND. Dee. Id. "he I lon rd i f F.d uc. l l inn decided ! ■ bring miller the notice ot the Department and the Minister. and other boards, the employment ot married i<•malt-, teachers as being unfair competition, Several case- were quoted where the husband and wile tire employed as teachers when the husband has an adequate salary to support Ids wile. In one case a husband gut Cl 1-» a year ami his wife £280; in another the husband received C.TIS and limisr allowance and his wife £255; wlul-t in another school a husband got £3,0 and his wife £215. TWO MAORIS FINED. AUCKLAND. December Id. \t the Supreme * oiti’i Hina Alika Wliareiliua and Kupi Hunia appeared for sentence, the former having committed bigamy by marrying a Maori woman at Toetoe with whom he had been living lor many years while separated from hi' wife and the latter, who i- a celebrant under the llatana faith, for abetting in the commission ol bii'amy. Judge Reed fined Rttpi Lit) or three months and Whnreumu wa- ordered to ~ay costs L'3 IBs. or out "ith. T| u . defence was that the marriage was celebrated to legitimise Wlmre-uinu-’s children. THAMES HOTEL LICENSE. AUCKLAND. December Id. The Licensing Committee rcltised an application by W. V. Gripsbv for the transfer of the Thames Hotel license. The position now is that it i s competent for any person to apply lor a new license at the annual meeting in June. 192 d.