TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16261, 9 February 1927, Page 2

TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF

TEAMWAY AUTHORITIES CONFER (Per Press Association.) A conference of delegates of tramway authorities was held at Palmerston North last night, with the object _of arranging the formation of a Dominion Association. Matters are being discussed in camera. TIMBER MILLS CLOSING. Additional sawmills in the Hokitika district are closing down for lack of orders, including the Kanieri sawmill, Hokitika, and Stuart and Chapman, Ltd., Ross. Thirty men are involved in the former, and 60 men in the latter. LacJ of orders will cause other mills employing considerable labor to. be affected! similarly in the near future. The Westland County Council resolved to be represented in a deputation to the Prime Minister on his arrival to urge remedial action to assist the milling industry, as the effect of the stoppage of the mills is most serious in the Westland district. FORGERY AND VALUELESS CHEQUES. George Powell Gough, 26, pleaded guilty in Bjr*nhe!m yesterday afternoon to tlireo charges of forgery and uttering cheques purporting to ho drawn by E. Campbell, and was committed for sentence to the Supreme Court at Blenheim on February 15. Bail was _ not asked for. Accused also admitted issuiug valueless cheques at Ohristchurfiji. UNEMPLOYMENT IN DUNEDIN. Unemployment registrations iii Dunedin for the week ended February 8 total 152, an increase of four over the previous week. Of the total 94 are laborers. The clothing factories at present have sufficient to keep full staffs goino-, but the prospects after Easter are not very bright, as no large orders are being jdKc.ed. The woollen mills ha\ o had to put off a number of hands, and in some branches of the trade operatives are working only part time. There is, however, a prospect of increased work in the near future. The iron trades also are working with reduced staffs. MAN DISAPPEARS. George Anderson, 22, a native of Australia, who was engaged in doing fencing work on Horokiwi hill, Petone, disappeared from a wliare he was occupying about a week ago, and has not been found. It is reported! he came into Wellington, but returned to liis whare, and changed into his working clothes, presumably to start work again. A suit of clothes and other belongings are still in the whare. Anderson had a mate named Petherick, but the latter, during Anderson’s absence, left a note in the wharo stating ho was giving up the job, and would not return. The police are endeavoring to obtain information from Petherick, but at present do not know where he is. CONFERENCE OF TOWN CLERKS. Matters calculated to produco more efficiency amongst Borough Council officers throughout New Zealand were discussed at a conference of town, clerks at Palmerston North yesterday, called for the purpose of forming a Town Clerks’ Association. It was explained that New Zealand was lagging behind other parts of the Empire in this respect, and ultimately the formation of *the organisation was approved. In extending the town’s welcome to the delegates, the Mayor, Mr. F. J. Nathan, Eointed out that City Fathers leaned eavily on the shoulders of their executive' officers. It was necessary that, town clerks should have knowledge of 26 Acts. Mr. P. Skoglund, of Stratford, convenor of the conference, presided, and outlined the aims and objects of the new association. DUNEDIN SUPREME COURT. When the criminal sessions of the Supreme Court opened in Dunedin yesterday, before Mr. Justice Reed, His Honor, in his charge to the Grand Jury, said thare were four indictments involving four accused persons. He was pleased to say there were no sexual cases. True bills were returned in each case. William Alfred Robert Fussell, charged with breaking and entering the office of the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children, and stealing three kefys and a pair of scissors of the value of 8s 6d, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment, cumulative with a sentence at present being served. Albert Harris, charged with breaking and entering the warehouse of Turner Br>s , wool and skin merchants, and stealing rabbit skins, an opossum rug, opossum skins, .and a set of a total value of £lll Bs, and also with receiving goods knowing them to have been dishonestly obtained, was found guilty on tho second count, that of receiving goods knowing that they had been dishonestly obtained. Accused was remanded for sentence.