DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 October 1925, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

[BY TELEGRAPH—TEU PRESS ASSOntATION.] WOOL CLII* AFFECTED. WELLINGTON. October 2!). An experienced .shoepfa niter estimates the wet and backward seasun will esiu.se ti shortage of two lbs. {ter llcece. Fie reckons the North Island will lie sixty thousand bales .short, and the South forty thousand. MONEY FOIi PAYING HOADS. j WELLINGTON, Out. 29.

Local bodies were expecting to receive £23.000 subsidy from the 'lain Highways Board for paving roads near Wellington, hut the Grown Solicitor has raised doubts as to whether, un account of technicalities, a subsidy can he claimed and hits suggested the parties had better go to Court for a declaratory judgment. Already Wellington has had to do seven miles of the Mutt road without a subsidy, although a .similar road out of Auckland receives one. CHEAT SCIENTIST'S HOME TOWN. BLENHEIM. Oct. 29. Sir Ernest Hutherford arrived in Blenheim last night, and was unofficially welcomed by a large number of friends am] admirers. He proceeded to Havelock where practically the whole town turned out. A reception in his honour was given to the distinguished scientist, who received a warm welcome hack to his own home town. To-day Sir Ernest proceeds to Nelson.