DOMINION NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1938, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS

UNEMPLOYMENT. (Per Press Association —Copyright?, CHRISTCHURCH, August 9. . Details of the unemployment position were .announced torday by Hon. H. T. Armstrong. On July 2, there were 8000 men on sustenance, but totally unfit for employment,; 1551 were registered, but not on relief, 4240 on sustenance awaiting placement, and 2032 on Scheme 5 relief. There were 35,796 men in full-time, and on July 2 there, were 2306 fit men available for 1 employment, and 2195 vacancies. WOUNDED ;RY BULLET. ' /*. i; HAMILTON, August 8. _ 11 A serious injury was suffered By' j Gordon Fi-ederick Marks, aged 25, when; he was struck by a bullet accidentally i discharged from a pea rifle. .• .Marks, who is a resident of Onehimga, was sitting in the bow of a boat 1 on one of, the hack waters of Lake WaiKnre, Ohiuewai, when a gun, after beipg loaded by. a friend,, accidentally discharged, the bullet lodging in Mark’s chest. He was .taken to hospital in a' serious condition. \

MOTOR CYCLIST INJURED.

WELLINGTON, August 8. / Fatal injuries were received by W. Amies, of Wellington, copper worker, when the motor cycle he was riding, and a motor lorry, ca,me into collision in;.Mdunt .Victoria tunnel. . t . . , L. Mead, of Wellington, metal worker, who wa s pillion riding with Amies, suffered a fractured right thigh.. • DRUNK MOTORISTS GAOLED. AUCKLAND, August 8. On a charge of being intoxicated while in charge of a car, John Walter Monk, aged 25, a railway yardman, was sentenced to six weeks’ imprisonment with hard labour, and for unlawfully converting n car to his own .use he was placed on probation for a year. ’ William George Cook, aged 38, a labourer, who admitted intoxication ut charge of a cay* yvas sentenced to three weeks’- imprisonment .with hard labour. FIREMAN’S SUICIUt. :. CHRISTCHURCH, August ?. A ; yerdict of suicide by, drinking a disinfectant while in a state of mental depression due to illness *as returned by the,Coroner, Mr F. F. Reid, at an. inquest held 'at Lyttelton yesterday concerning the degth of James Andrew Telfer a ship’s fireman/ aged .31, wut» was found dead in bed at bis homo,; 22 Dublin ■street, oil Saturday evening. Senior-Sergeant D. Wilson appeared. ior the police. . / Rona Victoria Telfer gave evidence that Telfer was her husband and returned home about two weeks ago after a period of four gnd a half .months at sea. He was suffering from a heavy cold. Dn Friday last she called in Dr. Gilmour, who prescribed treatment. unSaturday afternoon she was absent from the house for a little while and oh returning found her husband dead hi bed with an empty disinfectant ..tin on the dressing table. The tin had been about half full and bqd been kept in another part of the house. >

Dr. B. H. Gilmour said he, found some of the disinfectant round the mouth. In view of the quantity taken death would be almost instantaneous. He ha,d treated Telfer . for influenza, which was often accompanied by severe mental depression.

• A TAX APPEAL. . .. WELLINGTON, August ,8. Holding that'.spms paid by opp newspaper to another in pursuance pf .an agreement to, fix .the price of newspapers was not expenditure or Joss exclusively incurred in the production ot assessable income, Mr Justice Quilliam an • appeal against the; Commissioner of Taxes, who refused to allow a deduction. The payments were made by the Timaru Herald Company,. Ltd., the appellants,.. to the Timaru Post Company, an equitable interest f in the shares of which company had been acquired by the appellant sever-j al years previously. In his judgment, his Honour said that lie thought the result.of the case should depend on whether the transaction was a real one, and in his j opinion it was not. Reference to the • agreement made in 1925 showed that the appellant had complete control over the Tost Company, and by virtue of "the agreement. could have compelled i the Post Company to do anything which was reasonably required.

NATIONALIST NOMINEE. ; « ' AUCKLAND, August 8. Following a ballot by a representative gathering of financial members of the National Party in Roskill electorate, Mr A. S. Bailey was chosen as official Candidate to contest the seat at the general election. This selection is" subject to apporval by the National Party headquarters in Wellington. Mr Bailey headed the poll at the recent Auckland City Council election. CHILD RUN OVER BY CAR. AUCKLAND, August 8. . Maureen Tavlor, 12 years, a Northcote Convent School pupil, ran into a passing motor car outside of the school, and she was run over and killed. Her father is Mr C. J. W. Taylor, the President of the New Zealand Commercial Traveller’s Associati@M.