NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 965, 4 November 1910, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(By Telegraph-Press association.) ' ' ♦ : — north '-island^band contest. ■'"mr. e. short to be judge. Palmerston, November 2. Mr. E. Short, King's trumpeter, wha was judge at the Balla-rat band contest, has consented to act as judge at the North Island Brass Band Association's contest next February. At a meeting of the. association's' committee to-night, Mr. Short- was elected by ballot from seven candidates:" , The .test selections arrived by-the English mail yesterday, and will be ready for distribution at a due date;- ■ The recent suspension of the Wellington Garrison Band has been withdrawn, and the band is now eligible to compete..at.the contest. \- ." "■ < ' YOUTH GAOLED FOR SEVENTEEN YEARS. "'";'■ Auckland, Novembers. Mr.' Justice' EdwaTds sentenced Sydnej Herbert Gordon Doyle, a youth of 19 years, to . 17 years' imprisonment ' on charges' of breaking and entering, &nt nine charges' of the'it, and declared him to be'a' habitual criminal. . Jno'. Ingram, charged'with breaking and entering' at Dargaville, and having previous con-' ■fictions at Auckland, . Hamilton; and Timaru, was sentenced to: 12 months' in> pnsoriment. Henry George" Stone, charged with a similar offence, but of previous good character, except that "he is a deserter' from ■ the navy, was admitted' to probation for 12 months. FLAXMILLERS AND THE BONUS. Palmerston, November" 3. The New Zealand Flaxmillers , Asso. ' ciation met to-day and passed the foJJ lowing resolutions:'—"That this meeting, i representing .a very, large proportion of the flaxmillers of the Dominion; urgently requisitions the Government. to ■ ■ recon-: sider its decision not to give any bonus for' machinery inventions, and,. further, that the executive committee "be request- ■ ed to draw, up a workable: scheme to place , before .Cabinet so as to afford it every opportunity to give full consideration to the proposal. Also that othei . flax associations in the Dominion bo : communicated with in order to' obtain their assistance in ' securing the bonus; that the association favours the scheme of harnessing the Tqkotriaru or "Manga. ■ hao streams for obtaining hydro electric power, and that a committee, comprising Messrs, Seifert, Liggins,: J. . H. HanMns, ■ and ■■ L. Seifert, obtain the support ■ol other local bodies, and tike such fur- • ther. steps as may .be; deemed desirabll' to forward the scheme." ■ ,~ '