DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 June 1927, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

[BY TELEGBAPU—PEB ritESS ASSOCIATION. 3

X. Z. MEAT STORES. AVAXGANUL June 8. T,ho suggested erection in England of cool stores by the New Zealand Afeat Board was discus, I sed by the Farmers’

Union to-day, the general trend of opinion being that .such a step would be. toti great a. burden at the present time, especially as much of the present space in England was unoccupied. One speaker said it looked as though there would ho no meat to put through the Now Zealand freezing works in a few years’ time. Finally it was decided to obtain information on the subject from tho Board. A SUICIDE. AUCKLAND. June 9. AA'alter Hill, employed as an hotel porter, was found dead on Tuesday night. The landlady noticed a strong smell of gas in the room lie rented and found llill sitting in a chair with an overcoat covering his head and a gas tube beside him. He left a note which stated he intended to commit suicide.

ATLANTIC SALMON’. TAU.AfARUNUT. .Tune !>. Alexander Saddler, of Tomaire, reports to the Taumarunui Rod and Gun Club, that at the end of the fishing season he landed an Atlantic salmon trout In the Wanganui river. The fish measured six inches, and was returned to the water. ATr Saddler is on experienced fisherman. BUTTER, AND CHEESE RETURNS. WELLINGTON, June 9. The Department of Agriculture reports that salted butter graded during May totalled 3195 tons and unsalted 55 tons, compared with 231-1 tons and nil in the corresponding month of 1920. I hero is an increase of forty per cent for the ten months ended Afav, being 67,458 tons salted and 1248 tons unsalted, graded, eompared with 58,655 tons and 2818 tons . last year. There was an increase of thirteen ? per cent of cheese graded last month, 2549 tons, white and 1499 coloured, compared with 2454 tons and 1599 tons - respectively in May 1920. The figures for ten months to May 1927 were 49,545 tons white, and 25,026 tons, coloured, compared with 46,258 tons ; and 26,209 tons a year ago. Converted into butterfat the equivalent of these figures show an increase, of 9.09 per cent in butterfat production or the ten months just ended, compared with the previous corresponding period. > Butter stocks held in various grading ports on 31st May, 192/, ueie butter 8710 tons, cheese 9431 toils.

Compared with 9029 tons and 10,802 tans respectively on 31st. Alay, 1920. UNUSUAL BANKRUPTCY. AUCKLAND, June 8. ■ it seems hard that‘this man should In- forced into bankruptcy through the actions of his son.” That was how the Official Assignee summed up the case of William Alexander Burgess, aged sixty-two. a share milking farmer at Hucklaiuls Beach. who met liis creditors this morning. There was a deficiency of till/. , Burgess, in a written .statement, said that lie had been employed by Buckland. Elliott and Co. for the past l wen. ly years. He was then manager of a farm at Burkland's Beaeh and was given one-third of the proceeds of the monthly milking return, his only income. For the year ending February 28 he had averaged £‘l7 15s. For three or four years after the war ho had to provide for seven people and that ate up all his savings, lie was just able i.. i. Tiumrita Iho 011(1

to keep out ol debt, loworus me enu of |<)23 his sou AVilliam warned to get married. Bankrupt arranged to pay him £3 a week wages for work done oil the farm. Before this arrangement was made, bankrupt kept bis son foithree years after the war. In Alay last the son took action against him for £OB, being the balance of £3OO wages. Bankrupt confessed judgment. His son issued a bankruptcy notice in July, 1920, and in September his son took further action against bankrupt in the Afagistrate s ( niirt to attach moneys under the milking share contract. The Afagistrate refused (a attach, as hanlmipt had no other means for the support ol his wile, daughter and himself. Since then his wife died. A charging order nisi nas issued by his son against the returns on the share milking contract in Alareli of this year, hut bankrupt took proceedings to have this set aside, be-

cause it would have loft him destitute. TTc was unsuccessful. No resolution was passed because there was no quorum. The meeting

sympathised with bankrupt and hoped

that his discharge would he hastened