DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 February 1924, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

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MORE I AIM I GRANTS. WELLINGTON, Feb. o. The following are the dostinatious of the C'orinlhie’x immigrants, who are described as ‘‘one ot the best lot that ever lauded in New Zealand”; — Auckland— .’it) men, 28 women. 1!1 children ; total 101. Gisborne—(! men. ii women, 10 chil-

dren ; t ota I 22. Napier— !t men. 2 women. 8 children : total 8. New Plymouth—2 men, I woman; total IL Wellington—Bl men. 82 women. 17 ehillren ; total I I*B. Di' toii I mao. 2 women. *2 children ; total b. WeMporl. ■ One woman. Greyniouth —'J men. 1 women, o children; total 18. Lyttelton—2 men. 18 women. II children : lotal tkb Dort f.’halnici's —18 men. I I women, 0 children ; total 86. Bluff—B men. 1 woman, 8 children : total 7. The grand totals are: -122 men. 10-5 women, 182 children, making altogether .250.

TIMBER SHORTAGE. WEI LING TON. February ■>. Captain Ellis, Director of Forest iv. who hits been attending the Empire Forestry Conference, says that, owing to losses by tin* and insects, Canadian timber will be nearly exhausted in 2o years. British Columbia, is tin* only purl with liiueli timber left. Over a million a year is spent on fire prevention: .still the losses are as serious as evei. The ITiited* States is also cutting (ices at least four times faster than ttv are being icplaced. West Coast Limber will bo exhausted in 17 or 18 stars, and mu-t soon stop export tint, attention is being given to re-toresl-

Tiio conclusion Captain Ellis comes to is licit Xcw Zealand inu.si srn'v li‘‘t.wn timber supplies nr g' l without. 1 lie conference recommended Unit the Empire should heroine .'•ell-siipporiing i<> timber mill levs, and it was out that one-third of the world’s forests wire within the Empire. ;i total of seven hundred thousand ,sf|Uare miles. It also recommended the lormation ol an Kmpiro Forestry Bureau. considering that a eenfral institution for specialised t raining combined with research, was ntial for tile proper development ol tin. forest resources of th.e Empire. \VEI.GINCTON, February i>. In the course of a report oil the controversy which has arisen regarding the danger of the importation of wood holing pcsis into New Zealand from Australia. Mr Walter AV. Eoggart. Forest Entomologist to the New South Wales Government says that New Zealand has little to fear from Australian borers being introduced from Australia if the inspectors take the usual methods adopted in inspecting timber a I the port of entry.

AVIATOR INJURED. CHIUSTCHUBCII, Feb. o. At the .Socklnirn Aerodrome on Monday afternoon, Captain 31. C. McGregor. M.C., D.F.C., who has already sliown himself a most efficient and capable pilot, by his clean handling and stunting of the Bristol lighter, over Christchurch, met with a painful accident. His mishap is all the more unfortunate because it did not happen in me of the proved aeroplanes, but in one of the glider craft, which are vet in the experimental stages. The glider is not engined, and the Hying speed is obtained by means oi a motor ear and strong India rubber cordage, in default of a hill. By some means, the releases of the cord failed to act, and the glider fell to tnc ground oul\ front a height of about six toot. To the surprise of onlookers—for the fall appeared harmless enough—the pilot was found to lie he injured, and was immediately sent to the hospital. A medical examination revealed a fractured jaw. but enquiries to-day showed that Captain McGregor is progressing very favourably, and his injuries are not serious.