DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 February 1924, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[by TKLLG llAl'H —I'EH riIEHS ASSOCIATION.] WOOL SALES. RISE AT WELLINGTON. WELINOTON. Fob. 19. file wool ’sales opened to-night. There are 33,000 hales to be offered. A keen demand for all classes was evident. buyers bidding to good limits. French buyers competed eagerly for lambs' wool. which brought good prices. No detailed range of prices is available to-night, but it may be fairly estimated that, so far there is an advance of a penny to two pence in the prices better than at Wanganui and Napier. Lamb- wool brought up to 27’,d per Hi.

LONDON, Feh. 18. In lhe I lon.-c* of Commons, in reply to question.-, yfr Graham said Hk* remaining stocks of woo! held in this count rv on i h.- Government's account amounted to 57.400 hales. No Government stocks of wool were held abroad. Tlie.se .-locks would he auctioned within the next three months. At pre- ■ ,-nt it was aiitieipnted lhe last hales would he sold at Liverpool on May 2nd. SOLDIER SETTLERS. A MEETING OF PROTEM'. ASHBURTON, Feh. 20. "If file public revised our position things would he different.” declared a speaker at a nb'ss meeting of soldier settlers at Lymlhurst. in the Lauriston di.-trict. Ih- added: ‘All we ask is a decent living. AYc want m> more than ally oilier British subject would expel. We don'l want a bed of roses la iaiise we are soldiers, but we do want what a civilian can get, and that is a living. If this Government does not intend to carry out ils promises, then, surely, there an- otlmi Governments tJin , will."

Auer a healed discussion in which the speakers believed the Valuer-Gene-r:il and the Revaluation Board severely reduced tne recnmmeiiihitinns of the local revaluation committers, the nieeline; unanimously resolved to express di satisfaction with the iceeiit determinations of the Dominions Revaluation Board and also want ol confidence in the district Revaluation Committee, ft was also resolved in present a pciition lo the Government for a reconsiderations, lhe contention being the sections are 100 poor for wheat, uusuiliihle for dairying' and only lit for sheep for which they are emphatically too small.

V FATAL FALL. DUNEDIN. Fe'i. 2

William Shaw, aged G-l, a shepherd employed on Teviot estate, who was thrown Irom Ins horse on Feh. 3rd. died in the hospital. A verdict of death from congestion of the lungs ami cardiac failure, following iujuric.- received by u fa.ll. was returned. BAND CONTEST. CHRISTCHURCH, Fob. 20. B. Flat cornet solo, "l.es Zcppliyi s" W. Stevenson ißunaiign) 89 Ist.; R. Toy lor (I’orl Nicholson). 87. 2nd: W. 11. Osborne (Ashburton). 80; R. 11. Wills (Invercargill) Bii.