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AUSTRALIAN ANU N.Z. OAMLK ASSOCIATION. GREAT ll’ll 1(1 ATI ON SCHEME. LONDON. Sept. -JL A vast irrigation and cut ton-grnw ing scheme T; ahinil to he cuianiemrd in Iraq, under ll eonee-rioil planted l.n a JUrilisli croup. The .yiidicate, headed hy •*<’ lll Norton (IriHitdis. is lindutc capital lor tlie scheme .which embraces six hone irrigation works, estimated to cost »tltngothor £1 r.00t1.000. The (fovernment ol fia(| will draw all annual crop percentage, not exceeding II per cent, at the cad of sixty .\cars. The lirsl. work, irrigating JUJAhOO ncrcs, will ho commenced immediately.
NKCiIiKC'T OK DAUOIITKR. I.ONDON, Soptcinhor .lames Lewis Alolhide, aged forty, a Jusliie of the I’eiiee, a member of the lilaydon Urban Council, Chairinuu of the local Hospital Hoard, and of the North Eastern Iron ami Steel Trade Confederation was sentenced to two months’ hard lahonr, and his wife was lined C2'>, for neglecting their fifteenyear old daughter. Evidence was given that the child was found kneeling on a lilt lie. soaked mattress. She was \ermiic.ns, an I she weighed only HR h’S. The doctor of the Institute to which the child was taken said that this was t|. c worst case that he had ever seen, lie feared that the neglect would permanently ininre the child’s health. The defence was that tlm parents had repeatedly, hnl nnsneoesfnll.v tried to got Ihe child into an institute,n for tho mentally defective. KCiPVTian Titmniu-:. l/ONDON, Be|x-mbefl- 2-1. Mr R. MacDonald hiul a three bourn conforonoo with Zr.«hlol Pa.-ha ,SfOT»kiau Premier, who spoke in Arabic, noeossituting slow ink-rpivtnioii. As » rosalt it was only possible to review the points in dispute, and ascertain the resppctivi 1 positions.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 September 1924, Page 3
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