TELEGRAMS

Hokitika Guardian, 31 March 1922, Page 1

TELEGRAMS

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DISEASE IN BEES. WELLINGTON, March 30

Tile Apiary Division of the Department of Agriculture has received information of a rather more serious out break than usual of paralysis amongst the bees in the Taranaki district. It is not regarded as a serious malady, but the present outbreak appears to be of a more virulent type than has occurred elsewhere. Prompt measures have been taken to deal with it. The report was notified from the largest apiary in Taranaki and the owner is pursuing a line of scientific investign tion into the subject

MEAT POOL WELLINGTON, March 30. The Now Zealand Meat Producers’ Board has decided to request Mr J- S. Jossep, vice-chairman of the Board to proceed to England on the business of the Board. Mr Jessep has agreed to the request and will leave for London towards the end of April. Th e Board has decided to advertise for applications for the position of New Zealand manager for the Board.

SUDDEN DEATH. DUNEDIN, March 30. Mrs Elizabeth Smith, wife of Mr RTC. Smith, the owner of Malvern Downs Station, Tarras in Central Otago, collapsed in a shop in the city this evening and expired immediately. An inquest will probably be held.

FUNCTION AT AKAROA, CHRISTCHURCH, March 30,

Lord Jellicoe paid a visit to Akaroa to-day and laid the foundation stone of the Banks Peninsula. Soldiers’ Memorial, a Gothic Arch, surmounted by a column with a cross.

As it was His Excellency’s first vist to this district the town was en fete. He was necorded a civic reception and presented with an illuminated address and was entertained at luncheon.

“TOTE” DIVIDENDS PUBLISHED

AUCKLAND, March 80,

Two charges of having published totalisator dividends were admitted % Samuel Nelson in the Police Court The charges related to races at Wellington and Paeroa respectively. Chief-Detective Mcllveney said the defendant was a bookmaker’s agent. He received information as to the dividends by wire and published them to the bookmakers at Auckland, Hamilton and Frankton Junction. He lived by this means. Defendant had nothing to say and was fined £2O on each charge and allowed a month to pay.