DOMINION NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14038, 22 April 1920, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS.

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, April 21. Tile trouble which developed at the oil stores on Tuesday has been settled temporarily, the men resuming work on the understanding that they are to be paid 2s 3d an hour; ail increase of 3d. The oil importing firms are considering the position in the meantime with a Iview to arriving at a final settlement. When the dispute arose the waterside | workers, in sympathy with the men in tli© stores, refused to handle benzine, but on ■ being informed that the difficulty had been overcome they resumed work. Mr Massey has received from the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth the following telegram re supplies o! superphosphate from Australia: "With reference to your telegrams of March 29 and April 14 re superphosphates, the Mount Lyell Company is shipping 600 tons by the Waihemo. The position is being reviewed to ascertain if the state of supplies in Australia would permit the export to New Zealand of further quantities." AUCKLAND, April 21. Seventy Territorials and Senior Cadete, for liot attending drill, were fined sums from £5 downwards. CHRISTCHURCH, April 21. Erank P. Bolton, aged 19 years; was found dead this morning hanging from a tree-in Hagley Park. His people reside in Wellington. ■ The' local Health authorities have decided to close all the schools within a radius of eight miles of Cathedral Square. Children of school age will be excluded from the. pictures. Ninetynine fresh cases of influenza were reported in Christchurcli to-day, three being pneumonic. The majority of the cases are of a moderately sharp type. : DUNEDIN, April 21. The body of Adele Heenan, widow, aged 68. was found in thei harbor .near her residence, at Broad Bay .yesterday. At the inquesti a verdict of "found drowned" was returned. . TE KUITI, April 21. A child named Crossman, - aged two fears, died on the second express yesterday between Erankton Junction and Te Awamutu. It waß reported that it had been suffering from; whooping cough and choked. The parents, it- is understood, recently arrived from .Canada. The body was taken: to Taihape. NAPIER,-April 21. The second annual conference of the Pharmaceutical Society opened in Napier to-day. The delegates were welcomed by the Mayor, Mr J. V. Brown, M.P:Mr S. -J. Tingey,tho'president, said the Sale of Poisons Act was narrow and. obsolete. The public, through jt, had ample, opportunity to become addicted to 1 drugs. time it was "renovated." A whale 60 feet long, weighing forty tons, - has been lying on the Parade beach for some days. The Harbor i •Board! s dredge unsuccessfully' attemptl- - ed to remove- it ,by, jjulling, u and, the