DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10317, 28 January 1927, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

PROTEST AGAINST C.O.D. SYSTEM. WELLINGTON, Jan. 23. A deputation of businessmen invited the acting-Premier and t'ost-master-Gcneral to-day to protest against the assistance given by the Postal Department to the casli on delivery system at present operating between Great Britain and New' Zealand. The objections of the retailers were emphasised, the general arguments being similar to those advanced by a recent deputation bn the same subject. The Ministers promised to consider the points raised. They will furnish their reply in writing.

INVERCARGILL LOANS

INVERCARGILL, Jan. 27

Loan proposals totalling £140,000 were submitted to the ratepayers of Invercargill and two were carried—roads £60,000 and pilot station £15,000. The following were rejected: Electricity £25,000; library £20,000; harbor £16,000; Oreti bridge £11,000; Town Hall extension, £6OOO. Only one-fourth of the ratepayers voted.— P.A.

SANITARY INSPECTOR’S CONFERENCE. AUCKLAND, Jan. 27. The New Zealand sanitary inspectors’ conference resolved to write to the New Zealand branch of the Sanitary Institute in regard to the opening of the doors of the Sanitary Inspectors’ Association to other branches of health workers. A com-’ mittee was appointed to submit a scheme to the 1928 conference at Napier. It was resolved to ask the Di-rector-General of Health to set up an examination board lor the training and education of sanitary inspectors on the lines of the conjoint English examination board.—P.A.

NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE. WELLINGTON, .Tail. 27. The Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute met to-day. Mr Aston, • who presided, reviewed the past year’s development. Messrs Oliver and Skinner were elected to fellowship, and it was agreed that two should bo the number to be elected next year. It was decided to approach the Government with a view to having Adams Island and Disappointment Island, in the Auckland group, declared scenic reserves. The casting vote of the chairman was given against a motion to the effect that the Pan-Pacific Science Congress be invited to meet in New Zealand in 1932 or 1935. The research committee reported that the results had been very satisfactory, grants having led to the prosecution of many lines of scientific investigation that would not have been undertaken otherwise. Mr Oliver was appointed the Institute’s representative in the Great Barrier Reef committee. —P.A

MUNICIPAL LOANS REJECTED. NEW PLYMOUTH, Jan. 27. The ratepayers of New Plymouth defeated by a substantial majority the Borough Council’s proposal to borrow £186,000 for water and hydro electric extensions. —P.A.

NELSON APPLEGROWEUS’ GRIEVANCE. NELSON, Jan. 2/. The announcement that no *hip will load apples at Nelson for . verseas before the middle of March, and that no date after that is yet Ex eel, caused the greatest dissatisfaction amongst Nelson growers, who are producing at least two-thirds of the export apples. By the middle of March a large portion of the crop will have been handled, and no direct boat means a large sum in the aggregate for transhipping charges' to TVellington. Growers. protest strongly against this treatment, and consider they are entitled to more consideration in the way of direct loading.—P.A.