DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 October 1925, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ABBN , COPYRIGHT BOY LOST. OAMAHIi, Oct. The seven-year old son of Mr Stanley Morrison, ot Herbert, has been miss*

ilifr since Sunday. :it midday. Search ( parties have been out. lmt no trace |id him lias yet leou found. A iarge I hody of A\ aitaki schoolboys intend Joining the search party to-morrow. As the weather is cold and wet. the hoy, who disappeared in the hills, will he having a terrible experience from cold and lm lifter if he is still alive. FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT. KLTHAM. Oct. 0. As the result of a ear getting out of control on the hem! on the Klthnm- . Stratford road. Dave Chalmers .Millin. of New Plymouth. aged 17 and married. was killed instantaneously when the ear somersaulted after hitting a tree stump on the roadside. Deceased had his neck broken and breast smashed. Fortunately no passengers were aboard and no one saw the accident. GOVERNOR GENERAL. HAST!.VOS. Get. (i. The Governor-General. Lady Ferguson, and party arrived last evening and were met by the mayor, borough council and representatives of other public bodies, and accorded a warm welcome byoa large assemblage of the public. Their Excellencies were cute* tamed at a municipal di'uncr. To-day they are visiting public and private schools and were flic guests of the Rotary Club at a luncheon. The day’s programme includes a visit to llaraekakaho. To-night the party will again he enter!a hied and a full list of engagements are down lor to-morrow. | HITTER PROOFCTIOV. AUCKLAND, October •!. The production of butter iu Auckland province tins season does not leach the high figure attained at the eonv-ponding stage ol last year. The returns for the present season to the end of .September show that Ui I..'IPS boxes were received at the grading stores, compared with I!> —, JAS for the corresponding period of last season, a decrease of 27,7-10 boxes. During Lite last two weeks A(i,SA7 boxes were received, a decrease ol S lilts i hose: when compared with the total for tin corresponding period of last year. Tin number ol boxes received during tin whole of September totalled KM. 112 whereas 111),ASA boxes were receive! during September, 15)21. The cheese figures, however, coiitinvn to show comparative increases. During September, SKIS crates were received at the grading stores, against (17 IK for September, 15)21. an increase of 2170 crates. The present season’s receipts to date total ll.il-l crates.

against tiOtili tor till' COlTCspOlldillg period ol last year. :iii increase of 2d Is crates.

FA It.M KBS' I.MDM. FT: I M)JN(i. <>ci. r,. Tin- executive- of t!ie Wellington I’rovineiiil Farmers' Union lieul a meeting. .Mi' K. W. | lalyrmple presiding, and ilism-sed l.lie Munition arising; from tin- shipping troulile. After a. lengthy deluite. the following motion «■ a- carried: ‘‘Tlmt a telegram ho sent to the Prime .Minister stating tluil farmers acre prepared to hark u)i every effort made hv the (iovernmeiit to move- produre. until the seamen are prepared to fullill tlietr ngreement. The meeting expressed a willingness to assist in mainline ships, if necessary.” X./,. OFF. It STALIxIXO. London. a no. id. Some e-xeerjils from Lord lle-lperhi diary, v- ri I ton v. Idle lie was in Me" Zealand deer-sta It ing. are puhlislied by the “Field.” Slimming ii|i his impressions. Lord Bel per writes: “1 had no idea of tin- .difficulties oi tlie country. (Tiles.s the stalker it prepared for real hard work ami very still climbing on very ditlieult and sometimes dangerous ground, lie wilt do no good, (mod heads are few and far hetweeii. ami one lias to wink hard

to get them. 01 course, not nearly all the good stags are seen, as many never eiune out of the thick hush. We were in about the best country on tlie fringe of the herd, which keeps gradually spreading out.

“Taken as a whole the seven heads probably constitute the best hag ever brought out of the country by one party. Certainly, the Iti-pointer is one of the best, if not. the best heads ever killed in Otago. Tho 14-pointer—it might he called 15, as there is a small point on the right top is an ideal example of what a 14-pointer ought to be, and is one of the most beautiful I have ever seen, from New Zealand or elsewhere. All the points are long, its symmetry and proportions nrc pretty nearly perfect, the horn is thick and tough, and the tops magnificent." Lord Belpcr's collection of heads is on view in Inverness.