DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 December 1924, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

BY TKf.EfJUAPU—riIIWH ASSN.j COI'YUIQHT. EXAMINATION FOR RAND J AGENTS. ' WELLINGTON, November 20. 1 Should land agents he required io pass an examination before being allowed to trade as agents? The allitTuative view was expressed hy .Mr J. I’,. Ilareoint is proposing a toast to the Wellington Association at the annual smohe concert ot the Land Agents and Auctioneers’ Association ot Wellington last night. .Mr llareoii't considered that the issue of a license to a prospective land agent should carry with it the approval of the Land Agents’ Association. Such a step would tend to give a greater standing to the association and its representatives, and at the same time would provide the public with greater assurance, lie observed with a good deal ot satisfaction that the Court had refused licenses to persons whom it had not considered til and proper to do business with the public. It had been suggested that land agents should be required to pass mi examination, and with this ho fully agreed. At any rate the members of the existing associations set a very high standard of fair dealing and impartial treatntei'it.

Speaking later in tin* evening, the chairman (Mr A. Gellatly) said he tolt that laud agents would not be satisfied iiiiiil the question of the examination of land agents was taken up. As matters stood, the parent body had to make a start without Government re-

cognition. li teinained lor the association to bring the machinery into action, and then the (.’overnmeiit could probably he persuaded to take the matter up. 111 course, it would not mean that the present members of the association would he required to sit lor an examination. The difficulty was that there was not at present an apprenticeship to he served before a man could set up as an agent. There was very often no preliminary work put in, and consequently, there was a feeling that a man might not have learned his business. There was a responsibility tn look after the interests of both buyers and sellers. A land agent’s main purpose was not to make sales, hut to build up goodwill, ami this could only be done by fair dealing.

ISOY SCOTT "MOVEMENT. C! IRISTCII TECH. Nov. 2S. Oeneral Andrews reports that lie had soon Lord .lellieoe prior lo liis departure if rum Wellington, and His Excellency had decided to accept the appoint meat of New Zealand representative on the Imperial liny Seoul Council in Kiw.himl vice Sir Cecil .Moon, resigned. Tin* Now Zealand section ot the Roy Scouts As-oeia-tiou are extremely pleased that Lord .lellieoe is to ho their representative in the Old Couldry. because His Exlellellev, as Dominion Ciliel Seoul, lest no oppoluuity during his visits to various towns in New Zealand <>l seeing the hoys. All in the movement would he pleased to kiyiw that they are being represented by one who has such first-hand knowledge of the Dominion. Sir Robert Radeu-Rowell, in writing to Lord .lellieoe, recently, staled that lie had seen Sir Charles Fergussoil. who is already keenly interested in the movement. As Goveruor-Geucral-elect of New Zealand he had consented to accept the appointnunt ot Dominion ( hiet Seoul, vice Lord .1.11. ccc. Sir Cliuilcs I 1 ergussoii assured Sir Robert, Radon I’owcll t bat lie would ,b, his utmost lo rarry on ihc good work of scouting in New Zealand on the lines followed by Lord .lellieoe.

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Chief-Detective Kemp: What is this Ilian, a fruiterer or hnukmaker ? Witness: lie has keen recognised as a hnokniaker in a la rye way for a lmmlier of years. And the fruit .shop is a secondary consideration ?—A"es. Accused, who entered a plea of guilty, said he wa.s a married man with three children and did not carry cut honkmakiiiy as a livin';. A line of £BO with the alternative of two months’ imprisonment was imposed. Accused was allowed until tomorrow afternoon to find the money. -F-wrrKTT'KXAmr x atm x pai*i:rs. DEXI'.DLX. December 1.

} At tlie Police Court .tames .Marcus 5 Pelahiinty was charged with forging an examination paper in the theory of j music, purr.oiliny to lie his work as a j candidate for the teachers' I) certili- } cate exaluiuatieii. whereas it was in J reality the work of another, lie was } committed to the Supreme Court for ’ sentence. . George IC. Mnlletiyer was charged ) knowing a slip to have keen forged > I o 1 i:itl f-ausod it to l»o arl«*tl upon a.s ) genuine, thereby being admitted to the * practical test in music under the name ( of Delahiinty. lie was also coiumiti ted for sentence. DATRA' PRODUCE.

I ALAR INF IXSE RANGE AT! RANGED. WELLINGTON. Peiemher f. i Insiiranee. amounting t,» £1.000.000 has now heen effected over all the dairy produce to he shipped from New Zealand up to August 31st.. 1025. On hehnlf of the New Zealand Underwriters’ Association. the Commercial Union has issued an open policy to the Dairy Control Hoard of £(!2o.OOO. and Lloyd's, of London, has issued one of £175.000. K.n-h shipment will he divded in that proportion between the underwriters up to the sum of £BOO.OOII. fn the event of £BOO.OOO heiny insufficient. (he Commercial Union, on hehnlf of the New Zealand Underwriters’ Association, has undertaken to issue a further policy up to £BOO.OOO. This will make a total cover of £1.000.000 on the dairy produce in each chip. Important matters of detail have heen finally arranged to the general satisfaction of (lie parties concerned. The rates are 7s per cent, on butter and B.s Gd per cent, on cheese in and from | factory against all usual risks to Great Britain, the East Coast of North America, and European ports between . Bordeaux ar.cl Hamburg.