TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1922, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

[bT TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION] GO-AHEAD WANGANUI. WANGANUI, Oct 12. Th Board of Directors of the Wanganui Woollen Mills. Company have decided to go right ahead with the construction of the mills. It is expected the machinery will he in position inside of the year. Plans provide lor a complete compact mill, between thirty-five and forty looms. It is proposed to manufacture a type of goods not hitherto attempted in New Zealand. Tlic general manager, Portcus, leaves in the Corinthic for England to ■order the plant and engage foreman operators. SALVATION ARMY. NEW COMJSSfOXHR ARRIVES WELLINGTON, Oct 11. Commissioner Robert Hoggard and bis wife, who are to take charge of tho Salvation Army in New Zealand, arrived in Wellington to-day. I he.\ : will be accorded a civic welcome tomorrow and will be welcomed at the Town Hall on Sunday afternoon, at a special ceremony arranged by the Salvation Army. Commissioner and Mrs Hoggard received a warm welcome as they came ashore. There was an imposing gathering or the Salvation Army on tho wharf, and a large contingent of children from tho Army’s home assisted in tho welcome. The Commissioner has had a long and interesting career since he joined the Salvation Army in Beverley, Yorkshire., forty-two years ago. For two years lie was in charge* of the Army 8 work in Scotland and afterwards in South Africa.

PRICE OF BREAD

WELLINGTON, Oct 10

In the House of Representatives today tho Hon W. Nos worthy announced tint ta. reduction in the price of bread would take place in the South Island on October 30th., and m tho North Island on November Oth. _ ■ The .reduction, ho said, .would amount to Ul on the 21b loaf and Id oil the IHi loaf. To enable this to he done, tlom would ho reduced to £ls IDs a ton.

GUM TREE SCALI

WELLINGTON, October 11

Mr David Miller, the Government Entomologist, states that the eucalyptus pest reported as causing destruction in the Feilding district, is not fire-blight, as lately stated, but tingum ta ec scale, which was imported from Australia ill about 1900 ful which became very destructive in Canterbury and Otago till overcame by a special ladybird. Last season the infection became apparent in Taranaki, but fortunately the ladyhi.d appeared there at the same time. No doubt they will get the upper band. Ladybirds are being collected in the South Island and are being sent to Taranaki to hasten the process. CARGO-BROACH I NO. AUCKLAND. October 11. William Benjamin M’Donnld, Richard M’Ovoy and Herbert Samuel B. Dutton, inemlias of the Malm's crow, wore charged at the palice court with the theft at sea of sixteen battles of whisky from the cargo. M'Donald was sentenced to three months, M'Ovoy t > two months, Dutton to two months aiql a. similar sentence cumulative on a second charge of theft of twelve bottles. Ai cased were ordered to pay for the whiskv.

COST OF PHOSPHATES. WELLINGTON, October 10. The Minister of Agriculture tabled a return to-dav shoeing the price of Nauru phosphate landed on wharf in New Zealand. The c.i.f. price was given as under:From January, 1922, to .Tune 30th . 1922. £3 IDs fid.

1 DAIRY EXPORT. WKLI.IXOTOX. Oct. 12. London more limits’ representatives interviewed to-day in regard to dairy export, said that, control was not in the Rest interests of the country as making for the restriction of trade. M was an open question how the British retail section of the provision trade would regard the undoubted effort to antagonise it. Tooley Street oppos 'd absolutely the proposed hill, and this was the significant feature up to the present. It was dangerous to entrust twenty millions worth of produce to a hoard of nine men. OPIUM SMUGGLING. WELLINGTON, October 12. Colin Clyde Hcmns, a. seaman who had seven tins of opium in bis possession when arrested, was fined £SO, or two months' imprisonment, for smuggling. Charges under the Cesiums and Anti-Opium legislation were withdrawn Accused elected to !k> imprisoned. A COUNTEREEITER. AUCKLAND, Oct. 12 The police tonight, armed with a search warrant, visited the residence, in Grey Street, of Thomas Nelson Mollors, aged about f)5, suspected of being connected with the recent circulation of counterfeit coins. Mellurs, who occupies portion of an appartment lions.' in Grey Street, is stated to have been discovered in the act of making coins. He was arrested. About fifty counterfeit half crowns and florins, and five moulds for making these coins, and shillings together with the constituents of coins, were discovered on the premises,. which -Mellurs had occupied for about six months. COMMUNITY SING ING. WELLINGTON, Oct, Id. Community singing in Wellington produced a revenue last winter of ,CS2fl of which .C2S2 was given to various funds, principally to the blind and unemployed. After paying expenses for rent, printing song hooks etc., a balance in (land is left of CIO. FOUND DEAD. CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 12 Albert Edward Goodman, aged -17, market gardener, was found dead ill bed yesterday morning with, a gun shot wound in the head. Deceased, who had been in ill health for a considerable time, leaves a widow and two children,