N.Z. NEWS IN BRIEF

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 28, 27 October 1937, Page 4

N.Z. NEWS IN BRIEF

-Press ABsooiatioii.",

(By Telegraph*

Big Property Deal The sale was completed yesterday of a Dunedin property in Princos street adjoining Woolworths and oceupied. mainly by Bells, Ltd., at a price of £25/009, There are 15 porches in the area, with a frontage of approximately 25 feet to Princes "street and a depth of 165 feet. On the property is a two* storey building and basement. Th® price works out at about £1Q00 a foot-Rabbit-Shooting Tragedy Tbe body of liobert lviddey, a win-dow-dresser, employed by J. Ballantyne and Conipany, ,Ltd., was found near the Bridle Path at Lyttelton yesterday morning with a bullet wound in the head. Mr. Kiddey left his home shortly after 5 a.m. to shoot rabbits, taking with him a .22-calihre rifle. When he failed to return, the police were inlonned and a search was instituted. The body was found »beside a wire tenee jn eircumstanccs iridicating that Mr, Kiddey had been climbing through the feuce wheu the rifle discliarged. Most Mpdern Tramcar The most advanced modern tramcar in New Zealand will make its appearance on tho Wellington tracks next week, The car has been designed and built under the supeyvision of Mr. H. Leah, superintendent of the tramway workshops, and is the firgt of half a dozon designed somewhat on simiJ.ir Iines. It is 39ft 6in long, comfortaUe and commodious, aud can be driven by cne man if neceasary. Freezing-Works Dispute At the end Qf an all-day sitiing in the Coneiliation Council at Wellington yesterday before the Ooneiliatidu Commissioner, Mr. S. Ritchie, there is no agreeinent on any important point in the application of the New Zealand Freezing Works and Related Trades Industrial Association of Workers for a new Dominion award. The elaims of tlie employees and the counterclaims of the eniployers showed wide differences in almost every seetioa. There were lengthy schedules of wage elaims embracing all divisious into which the industry is divided. Tilf council will continue its sitting to-da^