DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 April 1925, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. TOTQ DAY loaned. TE AWAMUTU, April 4. W’nipa. Racing Club has received a notification from the Minister of Internal Affairs that he has loaned a totalisator permit for one day’s racing this season. It was decided to apply for Saturday May lOtli, A WANDERING CHILD. TE AWAMUTU, April 4. A strange affair is reported here. A settler at Patera.ngi found a small girl wandciiilg along the road five miles from Te Awaniutu soon alter daylight. The girl gave the name of Sybil Bucko aged ten, and said she was travelling with her mother from Wellington to Auckland by the main trunk express, which reached Te Awaniutu at three a.m. Awaking to find the train stationary and not linding her mother in the darkened carriage, the girl stepped olf the train which, immediately eontinned its journey. The girl was too shy or too confused to ask questions and wandered along the, road until found after daylight. The settler cop mwniented with the police who advised AucKland that the girl was leaving foi Auckland by to-day train.

MINISTER OF LANDS. GISBORNE. April 4. The fact that none of the llrewera land will he opene(d for settlement in the near future was disclosed by the Minister of Lands at Opotiki yesterday. I am far from satisfied, said Mr McLeod, tliat the land in Urercwa is suitable for settlement, and will want to know a good deal more about it before opening any for selection. The. land verged on V aioeka country, which after seventeen years occupation had greatly deteriorated. It would have been better for New Zealand as. a whole if hundreds of thousands of acres felled and burnt had been allowed to remain virgin hush. Tie wanted to investigate the whole, position thoroughly before he committed the Government into opening Urcwera country.

POLITICAL. WELLINGTON. April 3. “According to Mr Holland’s speech at Christchurch,” said Air Milford lonight, “which hears the. appropriate date in our papers of April 1, Mr Holland said Mr Wilford had gone practically into Mr Massey’s camp, and he hoped he would stay there. “My answer to Mr Holland.” said Mr Wilford, “is that, unlike Mr Holland. I have during the new year, refrained from making throughout New Zealand personal party speeches while Mr Massey is lying sorely stricken ,in health and unable to take the platlorm to reply. Notwithstanding my silence for the above good reasons, it. is hardly necessary for me to declare that the party I lead is a distinct and separate 1 partv to that led hv Mr Massey. I hat is no doubt where the shoe pinches Mr Holla ml.” TKACH KBS’ AGITATIONS. CHRISTCHURCH, April 4.

In view of the general elections this year, the North Canterbury Branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute lias decided to recommend its Management Committee to organise a publicity campaign in the direction ol agitating for a much increased education vote.