DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 27 April 1925, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

IIY TRI.KGRAI’U—PRESS AfISN , COPYRIGHT. NICY FLOUR PRICE. WKI.Li.NHTOX. April I'd. Hon Air Answer!by makes the following statement regarding the Wheat (Ymforonce The millers have agreed to a reailpustiiK’nt of prices, and to uM'er the farmers its 8d for Tuscan, (is 10d for Hunters, and 7s for Pearl, and all the milling wheat is to be (alien over within the next two months. The wheat .growers’ representatives are to recommend strongly their branches to accept the oiler. The millers have determined on prices as follows: CIH per toil lor Hoar, f.o.h. south. Price not to exceed C 8 j>«■ r ton for bran, f.o.h. south Price not to exceed C!) lor pollard. Australian is to be reduced from £2 10s to L'l per toil. The millers are to find the <ash for wheat from .Australia to bridge the gap until the next harvest, and the Hovernmciit are to pm chase on their own account. Cabinet has confirmed this. MEDICAL EXAMINATION*. AY ELIJAH TO A’, April 27. Interviewed regarding the serious allegations made at Wellington Hospital Hoard meeting Doctor Watt ‘.deputy DirectoivHeneral of Health) said that apart from adopting the extreme steps taken in United States ol detention oil Ellis Island or Angel Island, the regulations in force in Aew Zealand covering the arrival and treatment of immigrants. are the best in the world. Dr Watt pointed out that to make a full medical examination of every immigrant would require the wnole time services of at least half-a-dozen port medical officers at a cost ol several thousands per annum: also that in recent vears forty thousand immigrants have reached the Dominion and only a few cases <,( persons stilleriiig from: serious diseases had got through, and tlie.se had been immediately detected. It was cheaper to hear the cost <»t returning them to their own countries than to incur to expense of a minute individual examination of immigrants.

SUDDEN DEATH AT HECTOR

WESTPORT. April 2G

At an inquest touching the death of Harry Alooily, held by Air I .awry, coroner, at Hector on Friday, evidence was given that the deceased was a married man, aged SI . He came here 18 months ago from Auckland. He was serving in a butcher’s shop, wtien he collapsed and died. The verdict was cne of heart failure.