MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1923, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. DUTCH PLAN PLOT. LONDON. Nov. The "Times” Hague correspondent says that rt situation has been caused in Holland !>y the discovery of an exfonive plot against the DutelfState military authorities who discovered maps and documents relating to the Dutch defence system were being sold to foreign countries. .Measures were speedily taken to have false plans issued with the object of catching the sellers. To-day a Holguin was arrested at liarledue in the act of buying -ecret military plans from a Dutch olficer. Arrests of other officers followed in various towns of Holland. The plotters are believed to have worked from Rotterdam where the leader was also wrested.

HON. .). (i. {OATF.fi. OISBOIi.NF, November At. lion. J. (1. ( nates arrived overland from Napier last evening am! left this morning from Waiapu distti.T. returning to Cisbarue on Monday. The Minister leaves lor i'rewera Country via llaugarn.i. Deputations from local bodies prevented disi rid requirements of mad ami railway mailers, strongly urging the authori-ed Ilaugaroa route lor (lishfu ■lie sollthwalds milway ill | l olcreiii e to the coastal route now being survey'd. '1 lie .Minister declared the position required thorough consideration not hustle whine the esponditr.o of u million pounds was involved. H was al 'olulely essential that earo should he taken until surveys were complclid. He could say no more. COOK INLANDS FIMA ."AT lOX SCI 1 KM K. WFLLINCTOX, Nov. dl. During the visit of the .Minister it? Charge ei Cook Islands to that group last month a (onfereiiee was held by him with the representatives of the London .Mission Society in regard tu education in the northern Cook Islands, Penrhyn, Penihiki. Rakaranga, I’uka I’uka and Pelmerston and as the re-ult of a recommendation by Sir M. Pomaiv Cabinet has now approved of a gran I being found by the Cook Islands Department lor the payment of teachers and for educational facilities. Ihe decision is of great interest as it provides Ike means ol linking up the last of New' Zealand's possessions in the Pc.cilie with the Dominion education system. The work which the London Mission f-ociei v will oarrt on under the new scheme will lie in preparation tor the traiislerenee of llieii schools to tic' administration later mi. Inns repeating the history of the lower < link (iroup.