DOMINION NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 September 1940, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS

STATE HOUSES . (Per Press Association—Copyright). AUCKLAND, September 17. Discusing housing to-dav, Mr Armstrong said that one-third of the aggregate of bouses being built by the State were in Auckland. That was not because be treated Auckland applicants more favourably than applicants elsewhere, but because Auckland bad the men and the materials! to construct houses. He said that in .128 cities and towns throughout the Dominion,. 11,343 houses had been built, or were under construction, the .number occupied being 8,142. .EDUCATION BOARD PROTEST. | i DUNEDIN, September 18. ; ,T'|ie Otago ...Education Board bag dgciilcd to support the ,H<TvkeJa 1 Bay Board's protest against the broadcasting of unsuitable-items, such as “Crime Thrillers.” FARMER DIES FROM INJURIES. INVERCARGILL, September 17. Severe .inj\iiߣsis. from the effects of which he died this morning, were suffered by Wiliiffkr Haldane, a. farmer, aged 74. of Niagara,* on Sunday evening, when: a TWOtor ca-r-vwhioh (cracking, and which was in gear, ran over him. The ! accident occurred at Progress Valley, two and a-lialf miles from Haldane’s ;homef- ; He was taken to hospital in, linvercargill on Monday. He'died at 6.55 o’clock this morn'ing.

'/• , WHARF CONTROL. 1 WELLINGTON, September 17. , At a, meeting, of the. .Executive, ol the AVelliiigtpii Waterside Workers’ Union, held to-day,' a resolution that thei Union had full, confidence in Mr T. N. Wa'rryn and appreciated the bhle manner in, which he conducted the case for fair, play lor the waterside workers from the- Waterside Commission, was carried. , A COMBINATION. WELLINGTON, September 18. A combined meeting of"the New Zoa--4alul Garage Proprietors and Petrol Resellers Association decided, to-day, to come together along with tyre and battery retailers, as the New Zealand Retail .Motor Trade Association, Incorporated! The plait is for a Dominion organisation with branches divided into sections, representing the different trades'. Thb general opinion was that a combination of ’forces was neeessaiy in these difficult times. OPIUM DEN FINES. •WELLINGTON, September 18. Following a raid on Chinese premises in Raining Street, in connection with opium smoking, an occupier was fined £SO and ten others each £25, for being found there. PRAYERS IN SCHOOLS. , WELLINGTON, September IS. Though in the opinion of the Chair man, tlie motion bad the effect ol making tlie Board usurp the I unction ol Parliament, the Wellington Education Board, this morning, by 11 votes to b resolved that in future all schools m the Board’s district he opened each morning 1 With the Lord’s Prayer, subject to the approval of the School Committees and head teachers concerned The Board deferred to next meeting consideration of representations ky various bodies on the decision to rcluse the Navy League permission to enter schools* during school hours. A deputation from the R.S.A. urged that the motion be rescinded.