DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 April 1925, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

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hawkes bay wool. NAPIER April 22

Striking figures concerning the quantity and value of wool sold at Napier sales in 1921-25 season have been made available. These show that at toe five Napier sales 9, .995 hales were offered, and 88,695 sold, the value realised being £2,905,577. The average price per hale ranged from £36 2s Sd at November sales to £2:4 18s 3Jd in -March. In the previous season 4,515 more hales (the. total being 93,210) realised £2,021.275. the average per bale improving from £IS 18. s OJd in December to ,£2:4 9s lthjd in Marc!;.

Hi 1922-23 season 79.411 hales brought £1.214,123 and the average per hale at the November sale in last mentioned season was £l3 9s Gd and this increased to £l7 Is 7d in January. From then to the end of the season, prii e.s declined until in May the av erage price per bale was £l3 19s sd. The past season lias, of course, been easily a record for Hawke’s Bav.

AUCKLAND RBORERTY DISPUTE. AUCKLAND. April 23. When the City Council came to an agreement with the Government by which it received the site of the Shortland Street Rost Office in exchange for other city properties needed by the Government, it was arranged that the (ash balance he adjusted hv arbitration, hut the Council did not anticipate a compensation claim of over £IOOO per foot [or each frontage, or a total of £212,935. The building has a frontage of 102 ft 5 inches lo Sliortlaiid Street and 9llt. to Fort Street with a depth of 137 feet. The Council's proposal is to use a -10 ft si rip in the centre of the land for a roadway and cut the rest up for residence sections for disposal by ail outright sale. The city's claim for the three properties to lie handed over in exchange is £13,00!) and any dispute is to he decided hv a Judge of the Supreme Court. EIRE AT MURCHISON. AS r ICC ! I ISON. April 23. The Murchison Rubile Library being used as a school room lor seiond an third cla>s was totally destroyed by lire at 11 a.in. today. The children ing was insured in the Norwich l 11:011 hut the amount is not available. A large quantity of valuable library books were destroyed. INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY T" CHRISTCHURCH. April 23. The annual report of the New Zealand Hockey Association states that arrangements have been made lor a visit of an Australian team this season and l the visit of a British Army team from India in 1329. The Australians will j idav nine matches in July and August, including one test.

WORK TO RESUME. AUCKLAND. April 23,. Work is to he resumed at 1 p.m. on the Ka-kapo on the same terms as the F.xinn. 2s 10:1 per hour. V CAR MYSTERY. OAM A RU. April 23. No trace has vet been tumid ol Hudson. whose car ran over a (lib on the road above Kurov early yesierday morning, bearing with it a young girl. Olive Rutherford, aged 17. wlm was employed as clerk by the Otago Farmers' I'ni-m at Dunedin. Rat liei'lurd lies in Kurow hospital in a serious condition with a punctured wound in Die bead. At seven in the morning the ear was seen by a passing motor cyclist, stop-lie-1 on the road, and the ec( nonuis replied to a query that all was rigid. Half an hour later another passerby saw car marks leading over the bank, and on investigation Join: I the ear badly smashed "ii (be rocks 139 fee! below, and I lie girl on a ledge 2-1 feel higher up. The girl was operated on last night, and her condition is still very serious. Hudson is a son >'f Arthur Hudson, biscuit manufacturer „f Dunedin, and was driving to bis brother's station in the back ensu'd r.v. His disappear:!uee K most my-terious as the river thawed at least, it) I eel from where the ear was found. remarkable maintenance AUCKLAND. Ann! 23. Mr Povnion S.M. gave judgment in a remarkable case against John William I lope aged 38, a claim for £53 15s in d-efaiilt in ivsnecl of nil order for inaiiitenaiH-e ol bis wile in England. the defence being a denial ol identity. The Magistrate said the. accused was, in bis o','- ; uion. certainly jhe ~rouer defendant. He entirely discredited the accused's evidence, and accepted that of his alleged wife. A phoie'crauh exhibited showed the ;„sc,r standing hosM- his wife (complainant). it was his photo, despite fils denial, am! that of two nhotja-

,Taubers called in bis defence as ex--7,01-is. Half a dozen other photographers could he called b> sa. v ( thl,t (lie plmto was certainly Dial ol oefendinii who bad dcs'-rted bis wile am! conl.raeled a bigamous marnage am. ruined the lwmpiness ol the amtly ol |,is second Wife. He defied the orders ,-.f |bo Court of England and N<‘" Zealand and induced an already much wronged woman tm perjure herself ,o -.ep'ioi'l bis prenosterons story as to his iilent it v. lie should m returned to Knglatnl to answer a charge ol - yitntv. Hone was sentenced to . Uu» months’ prison, the warrant to. be stmitended so long as 2,s fxl woemj "as paid 2s Oil being for arrears. 1 mayoralty. STRATFORD. April 2d. j \V. McMillan was re-elected Mayer uimppofed. WATPAWA. April 2d |{. M. Rathbone was re-elected Mayer unopposed.