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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2885, 25 September 1916, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL • ♦ ' The 801 l of Honour, comprising casualty lists issued on Saturday and Sunday, appears on page 11 to-day. • The postal authorities adviso that the s.s. Riverina, which sailed.from Sydney at noon on September 21 for Wellington, ia bringing Australian, and also English, mails via Suez, and is duo here to-day. Nine years ago to-day, September 26, New Zealand became a dominion of the British • Empire—before that we were a modest little colony. The Premier became the Prime Minister, the Colonial '-Treasurer the Minister of Finance, tho Colonial Secretary the Minister' of Internal Affairs, and "M.H.R.'s" became "M.P.'s." , The day is also the ninth anniversay of tho birth of The Dominion newspaper. Dominion Day is an official holiday, and is more or loss a general holiday as well, according as the spirit moves tho people. The State schools wi!j bo closed, and the banks, insurance offices, Government and municipal offices. ■ The Court of Appeal, First Division, will sit in the Supreme Court at ll o'clock this morning. Tho following esses have been set down for argument: —Percy Bros. v. Fly and Young, Kaye v. Wcstport Harbour Board, Palmerston North-Kairanga River Board v. Frost, J. B. M'Ewan and Co. v. Ashwin. Thero will also be a sitting of the Second Division of the Court at 10, a.m. for the delivery of reserved judg-' ments. A meeting of sheep farmers and? others interested will oe held on Wednesday, October 4, at the Chamber of Commerce, Ohristchurch, to consider the question of the commandeering of meat by the Imperial Government, and the discrepancy in the prices received by the producer and the prices retailed at Home, and-also to secure.representation on any committee or board set up to arrange prices for produce, freights, etc. Tho meeting has been convened by Mr. W. F. Parkinson, president of the Canterbury Sheopownprs' Union, and Mr. G. D. Greenwood, chairman of the North Canterbury Sheepfarmers' Freezing Company. Tho very latest straw boaters, 4s. 6d. to Us. 6d. We have machines that enable ur to fit unusual heads. Geo, Fowlds. Ltd., Manners Street.—Advt,