LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15747, 11 February 1922, Page 6

LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS.

IPer Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, last night

As a result of negotiations an agreement is being drafted whereby the Auckland Service Aero Club; and the N.Z. Aero Transport Co. will co-operate to work together for the development of aviation in Auckland province. The proposal involves raising £20,000 further capital for the Transport Co. Among other matters under consideration is the acquisition bv the company of the N.Z. Flying School of Walsh Bros., at Kohimarama. In any case, an aerodrome will bo established in Auckland.

NEW PLYMOUTH, last night

Ah Wing, an employee in a Chinese greengrocer's shop, was charged with committing breaches of tho borough bylaws relating to tho storago of food for sale. The facts disclosed an offence of an unusual and filthy nature. Tho inspector kept watch and found Wing using as a urinal a box .containing water in which vegetables were washed. The inspector regarded that the offence involved a particular danger to the community, as it was liable to cause a spread of typhoid. A plea of guilty was entered, and Magistrate Mowlem described the whole act as extremely filthy. Fines on the two charges amounting to £ll were imposed. CHRISTCHURCH, last night.

Dr. John Sinclair Westwater was found dead in his bedroom in the Queen Mary hospital, at Hanmer Springs, with his head nearly blown off and a shot gun beside him. He was relieving the medical officer.

The body of Harry St. George Walsh, widower, 63, was found in the Heathcote river, Woolston. His left hand was tied to his left leg with a cord, and a belt was hanging round his ankles, as if both feet had been tied together. In the pocket of his coat was the following note: "I am getting too old for it now, so the best thing is to end it." One of Walsh's daughters lives in Christchurch, and the others are in tho North Island. A conference of the New Zealand Federation of Drapers and 01othiers_ passed tho following resolution: "That in view of tho growing evil of shop-lifting this Federation recommends that ' members should prosecute in all cases, and oppose any application for the suppression of names of offenders." The men unloading a cargo of phosphates which the steamer Glaucus brought to Lyttelton from Noumea, ceased work to-day. They demanded an increase of 3d per hour on the rates of pay. The local disputes committee considered the matter, and unanimously decided that the men be paid for four hours at 2s 6d and four hours at-2a 9d each day, tho payment to bo retrospective. Tlio men, however, refused to accept these terms, and did 'not resume work this afternoon. The_ decision of the committee being unanimous,, I the dispute' cannot be referred to the National Disputes Committee at Wellington. GREYMOUTH, last night. None of the bodies of the victims of the surfing tragedy at Greymouth have been recovered. ASHBURTON, last night. The dead body of a man about 60 years of age, unidentified, was found in a swagger's hut at Lyndhurst road this morning. The man apparently had been dead for three weeks. TIMARU, last night. At a meeting of the Timaru A. and P. Association, a motion was unanimously passed that, in order to prevent the North Island securing a preponderance of the voting power on the Board of Management of tho meat pool, the Prime Minister be asked to see that the Board consists of three representatives of each island.