DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 June 1923, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

[IIY TELEGItAPIf —I’Ell PRESS ASSOCIATION.J JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE. WELLINGTON. June 0. An Ashburton message, recently published, to the effect that the “Journal uf Agriculture'’ might lie discontinued if ire circulation did riot improve, is staled by Air A. H. Cockayne as based on a misconception of his remarks at the Faim School. IT" was actually placing the special merits of the journal before farmers and bespeaking their more general support for it. As a matter of fact the journal has an extensive circulation, hut naturally (he department desires lo increase ii where possible. The department has no intention whatever of discontinuing the publication, which is an essential factor in its instructional functions, and a valuable record of its research work.

I I’fimcui:!•: jerseys. Idion J’MClis AT SALF. NKW IM.V.MOFTD, .June (5 That conJidcnre in dairying is inidiminished was shown by the fact that at John Hales's fourth annual sale of pedigree Jersey slock yesterday, lorty-seven animals realised all average ol 12, guineas eacli, Jmyers coniine: from Kahuna in the north to lialchillia in the south. I lie highest price was .sill guineas I"|- a tiirce-.vear-old heifer. .Viissi< >.\.\ i! v work Fits. HI NF!)!\. June (i. It is stated by the Fmcigu Alisspuis Lonimiuee, Dial Dl.-re is imt mtieii ‘ a ,! se lor anxiety regarding tbe welCaiUoli. In the previous civil 1.-irware no anti-loicii-o feeling was matiifesl ed. I Die saici vo| loreiomn- s was assure I. Alore- ‘ vi-r Die CaiiLon .Mission ( oiim-il has alway, mtoi-nu-il Du- eommiltre in so; iotis situations, and no cablegram has b. an received. A I’OUCM MAID. WKI.I.IND'IOX, June (!. A police raid on a billiard saloon and hairdresser’s shop in Panama Street this alteruoon lesulteit in the arrest ol two men alleged to be concerned in the c. mliict of a common gaming house. Five detectives conducted the >■-• ;■!. an.l .ari-sted 'Reginald Charles Stone, aid Phillip Tossman. owners of the saloon and'shop respectively. Nice nien discovered on the premises will he charged with having been found on the premises of a common gamine liui-e. while the two men named will answer a charge of eniidiietiug a eomniiiu gaining house.

A .STORY OF DKSTITFTIOX. AFOKLAXI). June G. A pitiful instance of destitution, and exposure .is [related of an elderly couple. About ten days a {to the city inissiom-r, the I!ev. Jasper Cahler found the couple, George Glover, aged sixty-three, and his wife, Alice, liftyeight. huddled together in the Domain trying to sleep. They informed him they were homeless, and penniless, lie found work tor the husband in the country, and accommodation for the wife, win; was 100 ill and weak to do any work. Two or three days later the woman developed serious complications and was ordered to the hospital, where she died this morning.

i.kyy for ADVERTISING. DL'XEDIX. June 0. The annual meeting of the .South Island Dairy Association carried a resolution to levy on iactories Is a ton on cheese ami -s on butter, based on the export output for tuc year 1922-2.1 for the purpose of advc-i thing dairy nr; ducts at the Biitish Exhibition in 1024. Tiie Smith Island Dairy Association's I-vy for advertising at the exhibition is expected to realise tIO.OOO.