Premier outlines policy program and reforms in Invercargill speech
In Invercargill on Saturday night the Premier argued for closer settlement of large estates and strict subdivision. He detailed the national annuities scheme with age sixty pensions from 10s to 40s weekly, survivor and child allowances, sickness cover, and disability payments. He backed revisions to succession duties, prison reform plans near Wangarui and in the South Island, bankruptcy law changes, company act updates, friendly societies, hospital and education acts, workers compensation refinements, local road and municipal acts, and extended railway construction nationwide.
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Invercargill
Joseph
Wangarui
Moumoahaki
Sland
Friendly Societies Act
Dominion
Publican charged with Licensing Act breaches in election cards
Michael Moynihan publican at Shannon faced four alleged breaches of the Licensing Act for issuing small voting instruction cards during the licensing election. The case, heard in Palmerston North M Court, was the first in New Zealand under sub sections Act 1 and B, section 157. Police prosecuted, defence admitted facts, counsel argued positions, decision reserved.
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Palmerston . North
May A
Michael Moynihan
Shannon
New Zealand
Moa Skeleton Found in Penrose Cave Sparks Time Debate
Auckland Herald reports John Attwood of Te Awamutu argues the moa skeleton near Penrose proves pigmya survived the glacial period and persisted into late post-pliocene times. He links Eden county's volcanic formation to post-pliocene events and notes widespread shell fossils across the isthmus. The cave fissure yields a moa skeleton with other bones in varying preservation.
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Scotia
Penrose
Auckland Herald
John Attwood
Te Awamutu
Eden County
Waitemata
Manukau
Weeds Peppermint Care Helped Him Avert Severe Cold
A long road tale ends with a man catching a terrible cold after a fall into a pond. He returns home shivering, nearly overwhelmed by the chill. Weeds peppermint care later induces him to take remedy to prevent a deadly illness.
Arbitration Court in Auckland awards compensation in maritime cases
At the Arbitration Court in Auckland on May 3, Mars Piercey sought £400 from Macklow Bros. for her husband’s death aboard the wrecked scow Kia Ora, the court ruling Piercey was a partner despite wages. Thomas Young’s father claimed for his son’s death, but the court found the couple not dependent on the deceased. In Mahon v Grand Junction Gold Mining Co, a mother sought compensation for her son’s injuries during starting a compressor engine. the court held the death occurred in the course of employment and awarded £120.
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Auckland
Arbitration Court
Mars Piercey
Macklow Bros
Captain Piercey
Thomas Young
Mahon
Grand Junction Gold Mining Company
Rifle Shooting Club Speech Calls For Musketry Training Changes
Colonel Collins urged alignment with foreign nations at a rifle club social in Whllington urging adoption of musketry training and disappearing targets at unknown ranges. He warned that opposing the new ideas would alter rifle associations and club shooting, advising volunteers to adapt matches to upcoming changes at the big meeting.
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Collins
Court Rules on Union Membership in Cabmen Dispute
The Court of Arbitration in Auckland considers whether a union includes non workers, noting three cab owners and twelve share-system members as part of the union. It affirms the union may still seek an award, while suggesting acts to bar non workers from unions and to eject members who join a competing business.
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Per Presa Association
Auckland
Court of Arbitration
Grosvenor
Uubncome
Zam-Buk cures painful piles after five years of agony
Engineer J H Livingston of Young New South Wales recounts five years of itching and bleeding piles. After trialling Zam-Buk with many failed remedies, he reports complete cure after short treatments, praising its soothing effect and noting prices for Zam-Buk at chemists and stores.
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J. H. Livingston
Young
N.S.W
Mr Livingston
Zam-Buk
FaneBuk
Valley of Ivory Bones Promises Vast Wealth
An adventurer claims a vast ivory cache lies in a central African valley ringed by elephant remains. He says tusks worth hundreds of thousands await extraction, with a trek of hundreds of miles by a let of Black carriers to the coast, after guns quiet the beasts.
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Africa
Stanley
Protest against unimproved land valuation at Nenire meeting
At a Nenire settlers meeting on Saturday night, dissatisfaction with farm taxation was voiced. A resolution was passed protesting unimproved land valuation and calling for a fifty percent reduction, with improved value raised by the same amount, hoping other districts will join the protest.
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Eltham
Ma- 3
Nenire
Railway Officers' Institute meets in Wellington notes wage changes
The Railway Officers Institute completed its biennial conference in Wellington and submitted matters to Minister for Railways J. A. Miller. Key points call for an appeal board copy of findings, a service officer board for promotions, forty eight hour week, superannuation parity for retrenchments, and consistent interpretation of the Government Railways Classification Act. The body emphasized fiscal restraint and transferred its HQ to Dunedin as Graham of Port Chalmers was re elected president for the ninth year.
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Wellington
Railway Officers’ Institute
New Zealand
J. A. Miller
Appeal Board
Institute
Dunedin
Graham
Port Chalmers
Domestic servant shortage worsens despite emigration hopes
Miss Morrison of Auckland Government Employment Bureau for Women reports a deep, ongoing shortage of domestic assistants. Communications pour in from across the province as demand outstrips supply. Immigrant arrivals from the Old Country are few and often pre-engaged, with about 2000 applications yearly and potential placements of 200 per month unmet.
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Auckland
Miss Morrison
Government Employment Bureau
Searing Lamb Tails Described By Gisborne Breeder
A Gisborne war lamb breeder explains a handier searing method using a light wooden spade to hold the tail while the iron sears. The device keeps flesh from exposure, reduces bleeding, and speeds healing, aiming to convert more readers to the searing iron as a humane, economical alternative to knives.
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Gisborne
Never Dies. Methusaleh’s long-living record broken
At Mosgiel the other night Taieri Tam surveyed friends with an eagle eye as the era’s men gathered. Shaggy whiskered figures sat amid rosy faces in the crowd while Hon Tom Mackenzie listed haunts distant and varied. A strange voice announced presence from Noah’s ark as old identities were recalled.
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Methusaleh
Otha Pateri
Mosgiel
Taieri Tam
Tom Mackenzie
Hielana
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