DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1927, Page 4

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—l’er Press Association.) DAIRY PRODUCE. DUNEDIN, July 12. Save lor a few odds and ends the. export stores of the South Island Daiiw Association are now empty, the steamers Huntingdon and Alatakana, having loaded the last of the season’s cheeso and butter from Bluff. The Huntingdon took 11,958 crates of cheeso and 240 boxes of butter. From Dunedin she loaded 2115 crates of cheese. The Afatakana relieved the Timaru store of 313 crates ol cheese and 160 boxes of butter. The dairy production of the South island for the season has been miieli greater than for the season ol 1926. the. export of cheese being approximately increased by 10 per cent and butter by 25 per cent. Thai statement standing hv itself docs not mean very much for 1920, was a dry season. hut a comparison with the figures of previous seasons is assuring and encouraging to dairy-farmers. CLAIM FOR INTEREST. HAMILTON July 12. The famous Smallfield case was reoalcd to-day when an action was brought in the Magistrate's Court by Alexander Hopkirk and others against Lucy Iturbush, widow ol flic late C. R. SmalKiei'd, claiming £llO interest due on a mortgage of ,£3500 on the estate of her late husband, who died in 1921. It was contended that hy consenting to a reduction of flic mortgage and the execution of tiie instrument of reduction, defendant imposed upon herself a personal liability for payment of the ha la nee of monies due under the mortgage. Counsel for the defendant held that Mrs Rtirbush was merely in the position of an assignee of equity of redemption and was not personally liable to the mortgagee. He stated that there was no money in tile estate, and the property was now not worth the mortgage. Dodson was reserved. WAR FUNDS. WELLINGTON, July 12. i The War Funds Act Amendment Bill, in the hands of the Minister of Defence, widens the extent of this fund bv permitting tlie inclusion of moneys which may he transferred hv trustees or hold in trust, and authorises payment of the War Funds Council of certain unexpepended balances of war funds remaining in the public account and no longer applicable to or required for their original purpose. All these moneys are to be available for the relief or assistance of members of the Expeditionary Force who may lie sick, wounded or oil! of employment.’nr for the relief of the dependents of those who lost their lives directly or indirectly through the Great Mar. A final clause authorises the transfer to the National War Funds Cmn--1 oil of the premises of the Returned Soldiers’ Club. Christchurch, now he'd in trust by Sir Heaton Rhodes, Mr Henry Holland and Mr Justice Alpers. subject to certain mortgages. The M'ar Funds Council is authorised to holil this property a.s a war hind within the meaning of the principal Ait and its amendments, and the National M'ai Funds Council Is authorised to accept the same and to administer it as if they Mere the original trustees of the AVer Kimd represented hy such property, holding it in their capacity as trustees of such M'ar Fund. •■•'SOMETHING M'RONG”. NELSON, July 9. Referring; at yesterday’s meeting of the league, to the discussion at the Waiinca County Council on Thursday, during the course of which it was stated that Tarakolie cement cist £1 more in Nelson than at • Wellington .Mr 11. Everett said : “There was something rotten in the state of Denmark.” He went on to remark that cement for the Alotueka wharf was brought 22.000 miles, and a saving of several hundreds of pounds was made. Air Smith said the position was almost unbelievable. The president (Mr AY. J. Afclfat) said (hat he was at the gasworks that, morning. when some cement was being tinla do;], mill the engineer informed him i hat it was as cheat) as the locally made article. AL-. A. Gould remarked that lie had hoou credibly informed that kauri limber, vas being used in the construction ,:f a Nets n building, mois bought cheaper in Australia (where it had been ■shipped from Now Zealand) than it could he obtained in the "Dominion. “Apples are cheaper in "Wellington than in Nelson,” stated Air. Afoffitt. uho added that he beieved sailors united until they got to AVellington to buy fruit.

j KISK fX FOOTWEAR PRICES. ! AUCKLAND, July 12. : Prices of shoes in New Zealand will ; shortly he raised, according to a number of local manufacturers, who arc agitated about the shortage of hides. In 1924 there was a surplus of eleven million hides in America, and now there is a surplus of only three million. Local manufacturers say that the hide market has gone to pieces, that there is a. bad shortage. and that prices will go up sharply very soon. The local market will he affected for buyers from other countries are coming across and buying up leather as fast as they can. so that there will ho sharp rises hero. In Australia, prices of footwear have gone up with a hump already. There? have been rises in Now Zealand on imported goods, and British shoes have gone up rapidly. Already without warning hero the prices of hides have been raised by the tanners, causing concern among manufacturers. One Auckland - manufacturer seen this morning said he thought the whole trouble was caused by reaction after the war. The industry was just beginning to feel the pinch now. Overseas trade was not good, he said. So far, there had been no advance in prices in Auckland, although there had been a slight rise at the- hide sales in the. south.

USEFUL BEQUEST. CHRISTCHURCH. July l.‘S. William Henry Travis, formerly a tanner of Christchurch, has bequeathed the income from a sum approximating CIO.OOO to assist scientific investigations in Now Zealand into cancer and tuberculosis. The will was filed for probate to-day. The private bequests to relatives and employees totalled £8,850, and the testator directed that the income of the residuary trust property should he applied to assisting individuals who proved themselves capable in the prosecution of scientific investigations in New Zealand which might result in the discovery of remedies or cures of cancer and consumption. Practically a free hand is left to the Trustees as to how the income should he used towards this object. The testator does not specify that the money shall be used for scholarships only, hut rather that funds be provided to help advanced students or practitioners undertaking research work.