N.Z. NEWS IN BRIEF

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 134, 23 June 1937, Page 4

N.Z. NEWS IN BRIEF

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(By Telegraph—

Merinos for Japan Two hundred stud Morino ewes and eleven rams purchased from the Estate of Mr. Charles Goulter, Hawkesbury, by Japaneso interests, were eonsigned from Blenheim yesterday for shipment by the Melbourne Maru. The sheep are all young, being prineipally twotooths and rising four-tooths. — Blenheim. Bookmaker Fined In the Police Court yesterday, Robert John Timpany, a billiard room propriotor, pleaded guilty to a charge of earrying on business as a bookmaker. He was fined £25. Detective-Sergeant Thompson remarked that defendant was merely an agent of an unknowr^ principal. — Invercargill. Auckland Hospital A further stage dn the proposals to modernise and rebuild the Auckland Hospital was reached last night when tbe board approved of the plans previously presented to a seleet committee by its architect, Mr. John Farrell, and decided to send these, together with a report prepared by an Australian firm of consulting arcliitects, to the Health Department. After a discussion of moie than two hours a unanimous decision was reached.— Auckland. Full-Time Work The Hon. P. C. Webb, MinistOr of Mines, received a number of deputations to-night and in reply to one said the Government fintended to find fulltime .work for four months for 7000 unemployed, fifty of whom will'be in Westport.- These will then revert to unemploymgnt relief 'and another batch will be taken on. He instaneed the need for more elasticity in regard to apprenticeships as it was impossible to find employment for unskilled labour unless there was more in the skillod olas^es. — W es t£or t.