LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16539, 5 January 1928, Page 12

LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

(P.A. Messages.) It is declared to bo unlikely, states a Wellington telegram, that the report 01 the commission set up to enquire into the confiscation of native lands will he, published before presentation to Parliament next session , Tile deadlock between the contractors for tlio Taw a Flat tunnel j and their workmen concerning the conditions and rates of pay still continues. Alter the last abortive conference the contractors declared that if the men did not accept their oilers by the end of the year they would make the tunnel with independent, workers, unit recommence operations on 'Tuesday. Mr. Cook, general secretary of the New Zealand Workers' Union, stated in Wellington yesterday that liis union had not been further approached by the contractors, and the union intended to make no farther move in the meantime. Work was not restarted at the tunnel yesterday. The new motor regulations recently circulated in draft form will probably not be gazetted as revised for . some weeks yet. A fair response lias been made to the invitation extended to local bodies and others to consider the proposals, and forward suggestions to the authorities, a' batch of replies having reached the Public Works Department. It is understood that the major proposals have been generally accepted as satisfactory, but that the criticism offered has not in the main followed a constructive lino. The revised regulations aro ready for issue, but further consideration by Cabinet will be necessary before they are gazetted. A conference of school inspectors is to bo held towards the end of next month to consider modifications in the primary school curriculum and the recommendations made in that connection by the School Syllabus Revision Committee, which has been hearing evidence on the question at intervals during the past 12 months. An advance draft of the committee’s report is now under consideration by officers of the Education Department, and it is anticipated that an advanced draft of the revised syllabus will bo placed before the conference of inspectors. The final, meeting of the Syllabus Bevision Committee will also be held in February, when the finishing touches will be put to flic report, which will then go on to the Minister. Tt. is stated that none of the passersby took enough notice to identify the man who jumped off the Hamilton railway bridge yesterday, except that he was tall and clean shaven, and was wearing a' blue suit and felt hat. Three persons previously have chosen the scene of the tragedy as a means of ending their existence- and only a few months ago a young man was saved from apparent qelf destruction by the pleading cry of a young* girl. Dragging operations are in progress, but the body lias not yet been recovered.