DOMINION NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 2 May 1939, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS

DEATH FROM INJURIES,

(Per Press Association,—Copyright)

PAHIATUA, May 1. The death occurred on Saturday of

Mrs Magnetta Ruth Gainey, the wife of Constable Gainey, of Pohgaroa. She was admitted to hospital a week ago suffering from concussion, after an accident when a car in which she and her husband were driving went over a hank. She was horn in Invercargill and lived at Wanganui later. RAILWAY SERVANTS’ SOCIETY. WELLINGTON, May 1. Mr S. W. Gasp®’’,'. of Hillside, Dunedin has been elected president of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants in succession to Mr E, J. Dash,

i who resigned. I Air Caspar will assume, office at the i May meeting of the executive council, | which begins oil Monday. j. FRENCH SLOOPS. | ’ AUCKLAND. May 1. j The French sloop Dumont D’Urville will arrive, at Auckland on May 9, and will leave on May 20. The visit is mainly for the purpose of allowing the officers and men shore leave and to place the vessel in dock. The sloop has replaced on the Pacific base the sloop •Rigault de Genouilly which visited ' Auckland last year. The personnel comprises 12 officers and 134 men. The customary courtesies will be exchanged after her arrival, TRADESMEN ARRIVE. AUCKLAND, May 1. The influx of overseas tradesmen to the Dominion was augmented when 10 skilled craftsmen arrived at Auckland from Canada by the Niagara yesterday. The party included three carpenters, two electricians two motor mechanics, one dry cleaner one timber worker, and one paper-mill worker. Some of the men are married, and one was accompanied by his wife and throe children. The children, all hoys, are quite young. The. father said a friend of Lis had come to the Dominion on speculation early in the year, and obtained work without any difficulty. On his advice lie decided to bring his wife and children, and take a chance on finding work in. the Dominion. “As they are all tradesmen. 1 do not anticipate any difficulty in placing most of them,’’ said Air J. R. Elsbury, placement officer at Auckland, who met the tradesmen on the Niagara. ’ Some of the men had heard of the probability of obtaining work in New Zealand from friends. Others had read about conditions in the Dominion, and liarf decided to come out with the hope j of finding employment. ;