DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 July 1923, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[by TKI/KG K.U’R —I' EH TRUSS ASSOCIATION.]

OCR record exports. WELLINGTON, July 20

It is oflieiall.v stated the value of the diary produce exported last year was Clti.l 1 l,2tU>, establishing the Dominion ns the greatest exporter of butteri'at in the world. Ihe butter was worth 111 1 , millions’am! tlm cheese •), million*.

STRANGE TRAGEDY

ON LITTLE BARRIER ISLAND

AUCKLAND, July 20

|>„li,.,. officers returned from the Little Barrier this evening with the hodv of Hubert George Wcidmnn. ugid 1 etwceii 2S ami .’lll. A statement made by William (leaver, caretaker of the bird sanctuary, is that on June 14th he saw smoke mi a distant ridge, and next dav lie met Weidman in the bush. It is illegal to land, but the caretaker has the power of arrest, so he accommodated the mail at his house. In the night M eidmnu disappeared with a dinghy, and on June 2(>th, Cleaver found deceased s body at the foot, of a cliff on the shove. There was nothing to indicate bow ho got there. Cleaver, failing to attract notice from the mainland, buried the body two days later. Weidman. who was the mate of the American schooner Cecilia Sudden, which was burned „(T the Great Barrier in September. 1022, was a native of Melbourne. Tt is supposed that he was poaching kauri gum, of which a sack and a half was found near the body.

OBITUARY: WELLINGTON. July 2:1

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Compnnv has received a enldefrom the head office in London announcing the death on the 19th. of arcingon Laing who lias occupied the position of Chairman of the London Directorate durisg the past eleven years. Deceased gentleman visited New Zealand in 1920.