DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 September 1928, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

MINERS HELD UP.

HIKURANGI DISPUTE.

(By Telegraph—Per Pres* Association

WHANGAREI, September 26

A strike occurred at Hikurangi mine yesterday, owing to some miners being delayed through non-return of the “skips.” Ten men were involved.' The management were requested to. pay waiting time. This request met with an emphatic refusal. Th© rest of the miners then walked out of the mine.

A deputation from the Miners’. Union waited on the mine manager this afternoon to request that in any similar case in future the rp©n be allowed to come up on top, instead of being detained below.

It is anticipated that the trouble will be of short duration. , FARMING MATTERS. WELLINGTON, September 26. A monthly meeting of the N.Z. Dairy Produce Board was held to-day, the Chairman, Mr W. A. lorns, presiding. The members of the Board waited on the Minister of Agriculture with a request that herd testing should he placed upon a Dominion basis. The Minister gave a sympathetic hearing. Registration of the Helensville Coop. Rural Intermediate. Credit Association was granted to-day, bringing the number of associations in New. Zealand up to fifteen. • THOMAS KINCAID. CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 26. Obituary—Thomas Kincaid, aged 74. He was a former member of the City Council and the proprietor of a wellknown grocery business. , GLASGOW MARKETING PLACE. WELLINGTON, September 27. Among the passengers by the lonio Navigation Trust, whose mission to New Zealand and Australia, is to explain the importance of Glasgow as a marketing centre. It commands the trade of six million people and is anxious to develop trade in. meat, cheese, apples, and dairy produce in particular. Whereas they now have to obtain these products from London other countries ship to Glasgow direct at a considerable saving. MISSING MAN TURNS UP. CHRISTCHURCH, September 16. It was reported by the police, tonight that W. J. Larcombe, clerk employed by McKenzie and Willis, auotioneers, returned to his home at St. Albans yesterday. Larcombe, who is sixty years of age, was reported missing on September 18th.

SHIPPING CHARGES. FLAT RATE OBJECTION. WELLINGTON, Setpember 27. Wellington Harbour Board again is on the waipath. against the system flat rate freights from all ports in the Dominion. Opponents stated evidence was accumulating from year to- year against it. Vessels were kept 48 days per six months on the coast at an estimated loss of £555,000. Far quicker 'and more efficient service could be given if the time were cut down. One speaker said the system was a relic of sailing ship days.. Eventually a motion of protest passed two years ago was reaffirmed, with only one dissentient. KAIAPOI SEAT. CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 26. Mr J. A. Flesher, an ex-Mayor of Christchurch,/has been, selected as the Reform candidate for the Kaiapoi seat. The selection was made to-day by a conference of sixty-five delegates of the Reform Organisations in all parts of- the electorate. The other candidates were Messrs J. W. Beanland and L. B. Evans.-

The -conference carried (resolutions pledging , support to the selected candidate, and expressing confidence in the Prime Minister and the Reform Government."

Mr Fletcher wag elected at the second ballot. He is prominent in the Prohibition movement. A petition is being circulated in the dstrict asking Mr W. P. Spencer, well known as a] member of the Bducatoin Board, to stand as an Independent.

ALL BLACKS RETURN. WELLINGTON, Sep. 27

With regard to the cable from Adelaide re the departure of the All Blacks from Sydney for Auckland, the New Zealand Rugby Union states the team is expected to leave Sydney on Friday, of next w r eek by the Maheno for Wellington, and not by the Marama. SHOOTING TRAGEDY.

FOXTON, September 2. A tragic shooting accident happened on Robinson’s run, Himitangi, about noon to-day, the victim being James Vernon Robinson, 36 years of age, a single man, the eldest son ,of Mrs James H. Robinson, of Foxton. Deceased took a shotgun from a whare, with the object of shooting sheepworrying dogs. Not returning to the whare for lunch, an employee made a search, and discovered the body alongside a fence, with a wound in- the top of the head.

FALSE FIRE ALARM. CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 27. At Court to-day, Raymond* Victor Allan Lawry, aged 18, a member of the New Brighton Fire Brigade, admitted giving a false alarm on June 29, and was ordered to reimburse the Fire Brigade the eum of ȣ2. No conviction was entered* Accuseu said it was an accident, hut admitted having given an earlier false alarm for a joke, on the occasion of the annual Brigade social.