VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1921, Page 4

VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS.

TELEGRAMS.

[by telegraph—per I’KESS association] WHEAT PRICES. FARMERS WANT MORE. TIMARU, March 9. At a special meeting'of the executive of the South Canterbury Farmers’ Union to discuss wheat prices, it was decided that the farmers were not prepared to accept this year’s prices, which should be those agreed to at a conference with the Minister. It was resolved that the Government he asked to reconsider the guarantee offered for next year, which was considered too low by some members. Others were satislied. If was decided to consult the branches. DEATH OF M.P. MEMBER FOR PATE A. WELLINGTON, .March 9 Private information was receiver here to-night of the death of Mr W D Powdiill, the Independent Rcfmn member for Pa lea. He was horn a Wairoa, Hawke’s Bay, m TSUi, went to live at Taranaki 12 years ago lie was a well known and sucecsslu settler, and was on the directorate o manv farmers’ companies. He was r e turned for Patca last election, defeat ing his, brother-in-law, Mr Pearce against whom his sister had subse fluently secured a divorce. SCHOONER IN DISTRESS. AUCKLAND, March 9. The schooner “Cecilia Sudden,’ blmmd from Newcastle to Callo am laden with coal, put into Aucklam to-night, leaking badly, owing to tin heavy weather that was encounteicd.. APPALLING WASTE. OF NEW ZEALAND TIMBER. WELLINGTON, March 9. Professor Earnest H. Wilson, assist ant director, of Arnold \borcteiim Harvard University, U.S.A. after in spooling flic forests of the Dominion speaks of there being here an appallin; waste of timber. It is a pitiful sight he says, to look at the stark burn trunks.