DOMINION NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 September 1940, Page 7

DOMINION NEWS

DROVING ON SUNDAYS. (I’or Press Association—Copyright). HAMILTON, Sep. 13. * “Is there any , restriction to the droving of stock, on Sundays ?” asked Mr J, Primrose at a meeting of the V aikato County Council to-day. He said that the practice was becoming veiy ~prevalent. Chinese were proseuUteu lor working in their gardens on Sulidays, lie .added, but stociv drovers weio appaienUy permitted to do as they wished. air it. U. Young said it was a kindness to stock to drove them on Sundays because of the lessened traffic on the roaus. iVo action was taken. SHOT IN FOOT HAMILTON, Stpt. 13 As the result of the discharge of a gun, Mr. Edgar Hugh Sharpe, aged 2d, a piiotograpiier, of Itiver Load, Mamiiton, received a wound in the right foot. He was admitted to the Waikato Hospital. LARGE HOUSE BURNED WELLINGTON, Sept. 13. A large-residence on Wainre Road, Belmont, Hutt Valley, owned and occupied by Mr. Roland K. Grieve, was almost totally destroyed by lire this afternoon. The family were away at the |ime. The only water available was from a river some chains distant. DAILY MILK ALLOWANCE LEVIN, Sept. 13. When the Levin School of 390 Children reassembled after the vacation-a mass,meeting was held to see in wliai .way the. Children could help in the wax effort. The children’s decision was to forgo the, daily allowance at milk, so that it could be used for butter oi cheese making. However, “the sehoo. committee, while appreciating the spirit in which the otter was made,thought that the good being derives, by the children by, the •' daily milk ration .was greater than the help its conversion *i!uto cheese would he to Britain.

WANTON DESTRUCTION NEW’ PLYMOUTH, Sept. 13. Wanton destruction at the Taranaki agriculture showgrounds at New Ply-mouth,-will entail considerable expense ai repairs. Practically every Window pane on the ring side of the grandstand and ,on the side facing the road have been deliberately broken by rocks ana stones, and there is also evidence Oi damage by pearifles. More than 10 panes of glass have been broken and some of the woodwork of the window sallies has been smashed. Rocks and st'ones have been found in the dining room under the stand, and lit is stated that, some of them are of such a size as to indicate that the damage was not done by children.

ATTACK BY WILD PIG. TAIHAPE, Sep. 13. A farm worker, Mr Thomas Theed, employed by Mr W. Brough, at Taoroa, near Taihape, was admitted to hospital suffering from injuries received through being attacked by a wild pig which he and Mr W. Findlay were hunting on Mr Brough’s property. The party came up with the pig in the bush and fired a shot, which dropped the animal. Mr Theed approached the boar, which suddenly regained its feet and rushed at him, and severely gashed his leg and also indicted 4 tlier injuries. The pig was killed by a second shot. Mr Theed’s condition is not HOUSE BREAKS ITS NECK. OPOTIKI, Sep. 13. A fracture of the arm was suffered by Mr Ralph l’awson, of Opotiki, when he was thrown from a horse which attempted to jump a wire fence and fell, breaking its neck. The horse was the well-known \ thorough-bred hunter Spieler, owned by Mr Harvey Hawkins. PRAYER BEFORE MEETING CHRISTCHURCH, September 17. Wide appreciation of the Riccarton Borough Council’s decision to open all its meetings with the Lord’s Prayer was reported to the council last evening by the Mayor Mr H. S. S. Kyle, M.P.). Mr Kyle said that on the morning after the first meeting, when the observance was first made, his telephone rang almost continuously, every' call brought a message of appreciation. Since then he had received more than 80 letters from all parts of New Zealand, including Auckland, Oamaru, Nelson, Wellington, and Hastings, the letters came both from private persons and from church organisations. Six letters had arrived in the last few days. Air Kyle read to the council one of the most recent letters. It was from a woman in Wellington, vdio wrote: “It was a great thing to do, and a, great example, and T trust that yer.v many people will follow your lead.” Mr Kyle added that he was replying to all the letters'.

MEDTOAL BENEFITS AUCKLAND. Sept. 17. The Minister of Health said in an interview to-day, that he had another interview yesterday with the B.M.A. and was hopeful that satisfactory arrangements would be made between the B.M.A. and the Government. in respeet to medical benefits under the Social Security Act.