DOMINION NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 May 1937, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS

FARM APPRENTICES (Per Press Association —Copyright). AUCKLAND, May 17. Accommodation at the Flock house for training boys in farm work is fully taxed, the Hon Lee-Martin said in an interview to-day. As there are a large number of boys applying for admission, he has under consideration a scheme for apprenticing boys to approved farmers for a period of three or four years. He said that this would be a Rig advantage to boys well as to New Zealand as under the present scheme boys have to wait for vacant eies at the blockhouse. DR UNKEN MOTOJII ST. INVERCARGILL, May 17. A motor salesman, James William Cox, was fined £lO and prohibited from driving for six months, on a charge of being intoxicated while in control of a. motor car. The Magistrate •remarked that a man half drunk was more dangerous than one who was dead drunk, as he was more likely to take chances.

WOMAN KILLED BY LORRY. WELLINGTON, May 17. Mrs Marion Elizabeth Hitler, aged 6(L of Lower Hutt was knocked down by a motor lorry this sustaining head from which she died on the way to the hospital. It is believed that her husband i s in Auckland. THEFT OF BUTTER, AUCKLAND May 17. A plea of guilty wa s entered by .Raymond Norman Parris at the Police Court to-day, when charged with the theft of 1,982 pounds of butter, valued at £lO7, the property of J. C. Hutton Limited. In a statement to the police, Parris said he was a married man with two children. He was employed as a van driver and salesman. He admitted having manipulated delivery dockets, signed by Miss Aitkenhead, proprietress of the tea-rooms opposite the Auckland Hospital, and having sold to other people butter which he had made it appear Miss Aitkenhead had received. Parris was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. DEATH FOLLOWS COLLAPSE. AUCKLAND, May 17. ■ Collapsing at the wheel of his motorcar in Putaruru thi s afternoon, Mr J. F. Murphy ? formerly a wellknown ,police constable, died almost immediately. Mr Murphy was 64 years of age. He retired from the. Police Force only last November. The car in which Mr Murphy was driving was travelling at only a moderate speed. It crashed into the back of a stationary car, owned by the present constable in charge of Putaruru, Constable T Cotter, whose small child was thrown from the seat, but was not injured. Mr Murphy was for twenty years in charge of the Putaruru Police District. Born at Dunedin, he was educated at the Christian Brothers’ School, and for a number of years was an attendant at Soncliff Mental Hospital, before joining the police force in 1902.

PRESENTATION TO AWATEA. WELLINGTON, May 17. Viscountess Bledisloe who launched the Union Company’s liner Awatea, has presented a handsome silver rosebowl, 17 inches across, and 103 inches high, without its oak pedestal, as a memento of the launching and this afternoon the bowl was formally handed to' the ship, on behalf of Viscountess Bledisloe by Mrs C. G. White, wife of one of the directors of the Company. The bowl, which will later he given the place of honour in one of the ship’s public rooms, was received by Captain A. H. Davey, the master, on behalf of the vessel’s company.

B STATIONS. PAHIATUA, May 15. Speaking here of .broadcasting, the Postmaster-General, Mr Jones said his confirmed viev was that this should be under control of the elected representatives of the people, pointing out he had been told that in Sydney, powerful newspaper interests got control of some stations, which was not considered in the best interests of the people. He admitted the Government had promised B stations they would be allowed to live if they wanted to, but the. Government would not permit them to handle advertising. The question of subsidy would be considered, later, when the B stations had given a reply to the Government offer.

BANK PURCHASE. AUCKLAND, May 18. For the purpose of erecting an entirely new building to cover the whole of its property in the vicinity, the Rank of New Zealand has bought a site on the corner of Queen and Swanson Streets, adjoining its present premises. The price is not disclosed, but. in 1928 it was bought- for £31.000. ! Plans have not yet been prepared for the new building, hut the Auckland manager. M. G. Miller, stated to-day it . would be modern banking premises, • and a scheme would be evolved to ; embrace all land owned by the bank in ! the vicinity. i