NEW ZEALAND NEWS ITEMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3250, 28 June 1916, Page 46

NEW ZEALAND NEWS ITEMS.

AUCKLAND. Members of the Auckland Tramways Employees Union receive from June 3 a war bonus of half a crown weekly to meet the increased cost of Jiving-. Among the passenger.? by the steamer Taluue, which arrived from the Pacific Islands on I.9th, was jJr Ziesschank, a Gorman doctor, from Samoa. It. is understood that ho will be returned to Germany under the system of exchanging British and German doctors who have been made- prisoners of war. jJr Ziesschank left for Wellington by to-night's express train. In the Supreme Court on the 19th Charlea Lawson was charged with the theft of £192, the property of a Dalmatian, who left money on the counter when making purchases. The accused was sentenced to one year's hard labour and two years' reformative treatment. WELLINGTON. The Licensing Committee granted a renewal of the license for the Cricketers? Arms Hotel on the 13th to J. T. Foley. The renewal application for the Imperial Piotel (T. K. M'Guire) was adjourned, along with that for the New Zealander Hotel. The Teachers' Appellate Court upheld the appeal of Mr Bowater, head master of the Gonville School, against his transfer by tlia Wanganui Education Board to Queen Park, with costs against the board. .Lively interest was taken in the Palrrterston North Borough Council's tramway and electric lighting loan poll on the 14th. Tho loan for £86,000 (trams £c6.OCO. and lighting £20.000) was carried by a majority of 246 votes. The Wanganui Harbour Board on the 14th decided upon a vigorous policy to complete a deep-water harbour scheme, which will enable the berthage of eight Homo liners inside the river mouth. Recently, Mr W. Ferguson, engineer to the Wellington Harbour Board, inspected the contemplated harbour works, with tho result that he has approved of the scheme, and plans have been prepared by Mr C. 11. Howarth, tho local board's engineer. A street collection, on Saturday in aid of the widows and orphans of those who lost their lives in the naval warfare yielded £llO9. NELSON. At tho Supreme Court on the 21st, before Mr Justice Hosking. a case arising out of the Annesbrook motor and train collision, in which two occupants of the ear were killed, was concluded. Frank Rupert Hallam (tho driver of the car) standing his retrial on a charge of manslaughter. The accused was acquitted. CANTERBURY. The Arbitration Court awarded Reginald Charles Price, engineer, £250 for a permanent injury to his heart, caused by the explosion of a gas engine while in the employ of the Ashburton Borough Council. The Christchurch State coal depot lias shut clown for it: month or more on all household orders, owing to the shortage for railway supplies. In referring to the report that the amount of poverty in Christchurch this winter was above the' average, the Mayor (Mr 11. Holland) said that his experience did not confirm tho report, but rather the reverse. Ho personally had received about 25 per cent, only of the customary applications for assistance. Oscar Anderson, a wharf worker at Lyttelton, broke a blood-vessel while working on the Poherua. and expired on the wharf while going to see a doctor.