DOMINION NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 May 1937, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS

CARRIERS’ CONFERENCE OPENS (Per Press Association—Copyright). - DUNEDIN, May 19. The thirteenth annual conference of tlie New Zealand Master Carriers' Association of Employers opened this morning, Mr A. J. Curtis presiding. In the course of his remarks, tho president said one point on which they must present a united front was to impress on the Government that it was interfering too much with private enterprise. They should approach tho Government in an attempt to obtain some relief from heavy taxation.

ENGINE DRIVER LOSES HAND. NEW PLYMOUTH, May 19. Catching his fight hand in the tablet exchange apparatus, as his train was drawing into Tariki Station today, Samuel Bennett, engine driver, of New Plymouth,’had liis arm so sevecely lacerated that his hand had to be amputated later, in the Stratford Hospital. Bennett, who is 59 years of age, would have completed 40 years’ service in the railways next year and would have retired on superannuation. He received the Coronation Medal recent-

HUNTLY DISPUTE SETTLED. WELLINGTON, May 19 Tlie Huntly mining dispute has been settled. Advice to this effect and that the men would resume work to-morrow morning was received to-day by the •Minister of Mines, Hon. P. C. Webb. The Minister, who returned to Wellington, to-day, visited Huntly last night, and met the representatives of the Union and the managers of the collieries concern eel.

ADJUSTMENT COMMISSIONS WELLINGTON, May 18. The Attorney-General (Hon H. G. R. Mason) announces that Adjustment Commissions have been set up as follows, under the Mortgagors and Lessees Rehabiliation Act: — Nelson and Westland—Messrs A. R. Edwards (chairman), G. E. Manson, E. P. Noale. Marlborough— Messrs J. Stevenson (chairman), A. J- Murray, A. Thomson. Christchurch City, No. I—Messrs1 —Messrs W. J. Hunter (chairman), J. M. Preston. Christchurch City, Mo. 2—Messrs E. A. Lee (chairman), J. K. Burtt, B. J. McKenna. North Canterbury—Messrs J. R. Cunningham (chairman), C. Mclntosh,. C. H. Perkins. Mid-Canterbury.—Messrs J. Emslie (chairman), A. Gregory, AT. Bruce. South Canterbury Rural—Messrs W. E. Milis (chairman), R. Sinclair, S. Ayrey. South Canterbury Urban—Messrs J. M. Jenkins (chairman), G. Reid.

VALUELESS CHEQUE. WELLINGTON, May 19. Pleading guilty to a charge of obtaining a motor-cycle, valued at £IOO, from a garage proprietor in Carterton, by a valueless, cheque for £4O, Randall James Ferguson, 25, labourer, was committed to tlie Supremo Court for sentence, by Mr Mosley, S.M., to-day. Evidence was that the cheque was given as a deposit on a machine on April 11, and the machine was taken away, cm the understanding that it would be brought back next day to get the proper number plates. The. cheque was banked on April 12, and on April I”4, the dealer, C. Iv. Goodwin, was notified there was no account. On April 28, he received notice that the cycle was at Gisborne, and he went there and took possession of it.

MOTOR LICENSE ISSUED

WELLINGTON, May 19

Referring to a statement reported having been made by Mr Semple at Auckland that frequently cases arose in which a man applied for a license in Wellington, but failed to pass the test and went straight out to Petone or Hutt, and obtained a license without any difficulty Mr Andrews, Mayor of Lower Hutt, gives a point blank denial so far as Lower Hutt is concerned. He states that no now license is issued without a test of the applicant, and this test is just as rigorous as that applicants in the city have to go through. In any case, the borough observes to the says Mr Andrews, the regulations which provide for a license being taken out where the car is garaged, or where the applicant resides, if he is a non-owner.

FARMER’S CONFERENCE AUCKLAND, May 19. A minor storm broke over the Farmers’ Union Provincial Conference today. This was when the charge was laid by Mr H. Carey that, in its advocacy of costless credit, the Union had not represented the whole of the farming community. “This talk of costless credit is the ruin of the Farmers’ Union,” ho said, amidst cries of dissent.

“Wo speak for all of the farmers of the Auckland province. The door is open for all to join,’ said the president, Mr Mellsop. “We should go beyond the discussion of ragwort and the number of teats a cow has,” said Mr R. IT. Furness. Mr IT. M. Rushworth. M.P., addressed the Conference for two hours on monetary reform, and lie answered I many questions.

(RADIO TEACHING WELLINGTON, May 19. [Members of the . Wellington Education Board gave their unanimous support in a discussion to-day. to the advantage of the radio and cinematograph as educational equinment, and carried a motion asking the Education Department to determine a policy for introducing these' modern inventions into the practice of teaching in New Zealand and implementing their use.

COUNTY MERGER NEW PLYMOUTH, May 19. Representation: of all of the Taranaki County Councils, at a meeting at Eltham to-day, opposed the principle of the compulsory amalgamation of local bodies, and in addition to a motion outlining the chief grounds ol objection to the scheme, the meeting urged the County Councils to hol'd meetings at which the ratepayers could express their vein s There were more than fifty delegates at the meeting. Only one speaker was not definitelv opposed to amalgamation, but urged special attention for the backblock areas.

The resolution was:—“That this representative meeting of . Taranaki County Couniils is emphatically apposed to the compulsory amalgamation of Taranaki local bodies, as set out in the Local Bodies’ Amalgamation Schemes Bill outlined by the Minister of Internal Affairs, on the following grounds: (1) That no economy would result ; (2) that efficiency would suffer : (3) that community of interest would he lost. The meeting, however, favours voluntary amalgamation if, and when, a vote of the ratepayers concerned is taken.” •