TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 October 1920, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

[PER PREBS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.) j FLOUR SUPPLIES. j DUNEDIN, Oct. 13. j A weighty statement was made today by a Dunedin merchant to a “Star” reporter during a chat about the telegram from the Chairman of the Board of Trade in reference to the wheat harvest. “The only risk wo run is that our people may got panicky about flour, as they did about sugar, and create a shortage by hoarding. I am perfectly certain, from actual facts, that if outpeople use a wise discretion as to buying there will he no trouble about the supply of flour out of the next harvest. The quantity of flour held in private hands, particularly by bakers, indicates that there will he no natural shortage. If our people'start hoarding, and thus make a shortage, we have ourselves to blame. RIFLE SHOOTING. WELLINGTON, Oct. 13 A send-off arranged by the New Zealand Rifle Club’s executive, was given this afternoon to Major V. Dunne (Commander) and the members of the Now Zealand Rifle team, who will leave by the Moana to-morrow for Sydney in order to take part in the New South Wales and Victorian Rifle meetings. At the latter meeting on November 6th, the team will participate in an Empire rifle match with the British and Australian teams. The members of the team are:—Rifleman R. J. King (Opaki), F. Bolton (Opaki), D. J. Guiney (Petonc), It. C. Rankle (Wellington Suburbs), D. Roots (Hawera), W. Williams (Ohura), and IV. N. Masefield (Marlborough), Rifleman H. V. Croxton (Karori) and W. West (Blenheim), who have been competing at the Bisley meeting, will join the team when it arrives in Australia. The chairman of the gathering mentioned that six members of the team were returned soldiers, and the commander was a South African veteran. It uvas the first New Zealand representative team that consisted wholly of married men. Considering the good shooting that the New Zealanders had done at Bisley and the strength of the team, they bad some excuse for hoping that the team would give a good account of itself in Australia. HOUSING PROBLEM. ACUTE POSITION IN AUCKLAND. AUCKLAND, Oct. 12. The acute stage arrived at by tho housing problem in Auckland is shown by statements made by tenants at the Magistrate's Court, to-day. Both Mr J. W. Poynton, S.M., and Mr W. R. McKean, S.M., had cases before them in which owners of tenements sought to get possession. One tenant stated that he heard of a house to let yesterday, and when ho went after it he found that he was the hundredth applicant. In another case tho purchaser of a house stated that at present he was one of 13 people residing in a fiveroomed dwelling. To get away from the crowd he bought a home, and now could not get posession, because the tenant was unable to find other quarters. Another tenant said he had hopes of getting a house in which a man was ill. He had been told that if the man died lie could have the house. “Has he died?” enquired Mr McKean. “Not yet, Sir,” was the reply. “There are ton .of us in a three-roomed house,” remarked a witness in another case. STOCK EXCHANGE OPENED. INVERCARGILL, Oct. 14. Invercargill’s new Stock Exchange was formally opened for business today, with a suitable ceremony. The Exchange begins operations with ten members. It is affiliated with the Nou Zealand Stock Exchanges Association.