LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 6 July 1946, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

I 1 , Golf Championships | Advice has been received by the' j | Otago Golf Club that the New Zea- ; |i aua Golf Council has agreed thatj jjthe New Zealand champiorj.shipr. | Knould be played in Dunedin in | | ! 1840, the year of the centenary of j the provirice. j | Charged With Murder |) A slightiy built, fair youth, Pat-j j | rick Wilfred Hardy, aged 18, waiter, j j i appeared in the Wellington Magisjjtraoe's Court yesterday chargedj | j with the murder of Miss Rangi Tai ' ! Otimx, on June 20 at Nelson, On; ! ; the application of Senior-Detectiye j j ; E. H. Compton, Hardy was remand- ! : cd to Nelson on July 10, by Mr. J. [L. ; i "iiout, S.M. Leaving Japan To-day The lirst draft of New Zealand ' cecupation troops from Japan is due to reaeh the Dominion about J July 22. This was announced by I the Minister of Defence, Hon. F. Jones, who stated that the Chitral, j the vessel in which the troops were ; travelling, would leave Japan toclay. The nien will probably dis-,-mbark at Wellington. Gift of £16,590 A gift of £16,500 for various funds of the Presbyterian Church oi New Zealand has been made by 1 the Very Rev. Adam Beg?g, of Tim- ; ara. Mr. Begg is an ex-nioderator | of the General Assembly, and was j; icrnicrly minister of Sl. . Paui's i 1 Church, Timaru. He has expressed J ; the wish that the gift be regarded 8 : as one from a pipneer family. His j , grandparents arrived in Otago in | ic48, and his father and two of his j • urcles farmed a station near BalI clutha. | Purchase of Ships ! Included among the 46 vessels, for which Britain is applying to tne American Maritime Commission, are two 15-knot Victory-type ships which the Union Company desires , to purchase, one for New Zealand, Singapore and Indian trade, and • he ocher for the trans-Pacific ser- ■ viee between America and . New ■Zealand. The Union Company is in partnership with the Canadian i'ueifiC in the Canadian- Australasian Line and when Mr. J. N. Greenland, manager of the Union Company, visits Canada next month on his way ba.ck to New Zea-; ; und from Britain, he will discuss ' ihe rcsumption of the trans-Pacific; ! Cr nacli an- Australasian Mfie sail-ii-gu with representativies i'of the Canadian Paeific Railways. Mr. (ireenland hopes to leave for New Zealand from San Prancisco early . in September. Wool Itesearch Dr. F. G. Soper, Professor of Chemistry at Otago Umversity, who is at present attending the Royal Pcciely Empire Scientific Conference,. intends to remain in Britain ^ I ;>r i oine weeks afler tne conclusion ' ihe conference in ordei' to carry i ut investigations on behaif of the New Zealand Woollen Mills Rejoeai'h Association. He will be i aceomnanied on these investiga- ! limis oy Mr. R. L. Taylor, mill man- ' agcr for the Roslyn Company, and Mr. G. Greenwood, mill manager for i Kaiapoi. They v/ill first visit re- ' earch institutions and mills in i Britain and will then visit Switzerj ujid where important new woollen j processes have been developed in j Lveent years. The party is returning 1! to New Zealand via the United UEtaleo, where a visit will be made | to the mills at Massaehussetts and ! Philadelphia. ! subsidy on Maize I For the second successiye ^eaj son, maize growers will have a, Sub- ! -idy of ls 6d per bushel on all maize | marketed rhrough authorisea chan- ! ;iels, aceording to an announcement | oy Mr. Fraser, Director of the | Internal Marketing Department, at i the annual meeting of the New i Zealand Maize Marketing CommitJ tee. The announcement was I autherised by the Minister of Mari keting. "This me.ans that for the ! :;rop planted in 1046 and harvested I in 1947 growers are assured of a fufi hubsidy," he said. The need for an ' inereased acreage qf maize was j stressed by Mr. Fraser to meet j internal requiremenfcs. Although j the total area planted for the 194546 crop has considerably inereased, j the effect of a drought on the yield and the feeding of quantities of ! majze to stoek, it is estimated, | would reduce the total amouht j available tg less than iast year.

An inquest was opehed for identihcation evidence and adjourned one die into the death of George Mostyn Robert Bell, aged 20 years, vho lost praetieally all his fingers 3)1 both hands as a result of' an accident in a factory on June 11, and subsequently died in'the Palmerston lorth Hospital. "The British Ministry of Agriculture has undertaken to recomnend that import licenses be granted for up to 5000 tons of par.ridge peas from our 1947 harvest, vhiie the British Ministry of Food nas agreed to purchase, through tnglish jmportipg houses, up to '0,000 tons of blue peas from the ;ame harvest," reports the Miniser of Agriculture (Hon. B. Ro'oerts). "Maximum priees have been stipulated by the British Government, and while these prices- are lower than those operating under free marketing conditi.ons during the • latter part of the 1946 season, th.ey are still very payable pilces fyom the point of view of the New Zealand grower. In return for the promises to purchase these peas from the New Zealand crop, the New Zealand Government has undertaken tp ensure that* priarity is given to the requirements of the British Ministry from the 1047 harvest." A clearing sale of particular interest to market gardners is to be held at the Department of Agriculture yegetable .area, T'vuce Road, on Thursday next, when implements, seeding frames, insecticides, fertilisers, furniture and stores -and sundries will be offered. The sale commences at 10 a.m. with the impiements. /