DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 December 1924, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

UV TELEGRAPH —TRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. New taupo railavay. AUCKLAND, November 29. A report by Messrs Viekermau and Lancaster, consulting engineers to Air I'iirkert, the Public Works engineer, favours a route following the TaupoTotara Timber Company’s line, about nineteen miles, and thereafter following the proposed route to Orunanui. The estimated cost of constructing the proposed new line in that locality is 1M 1(5,000, and the estimated cost of acquiring the whole of the Taupo Company’s line and effecting the minimum requisite improvements is given a.s e;i;io,ooo.

NELSON CADETS TROPHIES

NELSON, November 29

General Melville presented three trophies won hy Nelson College cadets in competition with other Dominion secondary schools. One was the Lord Stratheona Cup for the most efficient cadet company in the South Island, and another the Riddil'ord Cup for the most efficient secondary school cadet company in New Zealand. This lias twice been won hy Nelson College in the three years il has been competed for. The third trophy was the Islington Cup lor the best shot in Hie whole of New Zealand. General Melville said the hoys should feel very proud of their line record. He had been travelling New Zealand for the last eight or nine months inspecting territorials and senior cadets, and had been soldiering for 27 years, and ho did not know if ho had ever seen a very much better lall-in than the Nelson College Cadets showed him that day.

SCHOONER SAVED-IN A STORM, AUCKLAND, November 29.

The “Quebec City” arrived at Auckland last liigbt. On October 22 she saw the American schooner “ Florence B. Phillips” showing signals of distress in the Gulf of Mexico, after having been badly damaged in a cyclone. She got a low line aboard with the greatest difficulty in a heavy gale. It broke, but was restored and eventually the schooner was 'successful! v towed to Colon on October 25.

RECORD wool prices. CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 29

At the wool sales, ten hales of good three-(|uarterhred realised the record prices of .W,<l per lb. The big price of |o:i,i per lh was secured lor sixteen”!,ales of lialfbred from the Palian pastures. Then another lot of tlireequarterbred went for IllUl per lb. The present wool sale is described as phenomenal. On coarse crossbreds there has been a rise of fully htty per cent on last year’s opening sale and also on the rise on prices secured in Wellington this season. Very little lialfbred wool made under AOd, which last season was considered to Ik 1 particularly high. Bradford, so far has dominated the marked.