DOMINION NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 June 1937, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS

‘ FIRE DAMAGE. (Per Press AssociaFion.—- Copyright). PALMERSTON N., June 9. It is believed that damage between £ISOO and £2OOO Was caused to trucks and! electrical equipment owned by the City Council by a fire which brorcc out in a small motor-truck in a garage at the rear of the council offices last night. The "flames ‘were soon under control, but bccaush of the costly material involved the loss was heavy. CIVIL PENSIONS. AUCKLAND, June 10. The estimated value of civil pensions paid in'New Zealand to-day is £4,309,097; These pensions, excluding war pensions ‘ embrace old age, widows’, : invalidity, Maori War, miners’, epidemic’,'and family allowances.' This information was given to a deputation this afternoon by . the Minister in charge of the Pensions Department (the Hon. W. E. Parry). He said that at the end of April there were 54,937 old age pensioners, costing at March last £2,413,103, with an- estimated annual value of £3,095,000. The Minister said he had under way ■the preparation of proposals dealing with the pensions laws for submission to flic Cabinet. • INCREASED RATE. AUCKLAND, June 10.. . An Increase in rates, brought about by additional expenditure, was forecast by the flavor (Sir Ernest Davis) at a meeting of the City Council. He said that while-revenue resources were becoming more restricted, expenditure requirements had not ceased , to expand. . ’ - * MISFEASANCE ALLEGED. WELLINGTON, June 10. Breaches of trust while director of 'the Investment Executive Trust of New Zealand Ltd. (now in liquidation), werb alleged against John William Shaw McArthur in the Supreme Court to-day by’ the Public Trustee who 'Sought a declaration of misfeasance or of breach of trust, and a declaration that McArthur was liable to contribute £20,965 to the - assets of the company -as compensation for misfeasance. FINED £lO. ASHBURTON, June 11. A. fine of ; £10 and cancellation of his license for six months, was the penalty imposed on-Keith Campbell McCormick, a farmer, aged 29, for intoxication in charge of a car. The police said it was;hot really,ui bad case., -q .