DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 January 1928, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association. THE PRIME MINISTER. TOURJ N G ELECTORATE DARGAVJ LJ.IE, Jan. 6. The Prime Minister came out of his retirement at the seaside on Wednesday and is now engaged on a tour of the electorate addressing representative gatherings at the main centres and receiving deputations. He expects to complete the tour by Wednesday next. At a meeting at Ruawai, a vote of thanks and confidence was passed, also a motion releasing him from addressing electors in that portion of the electorate during the next election campaign-. On Thursday next he attends the Dargaville races. On Friday, accompanied by tb© Hons .McLeod and Hawken and Colonel Allen Bell, Member tor the Bay of Islands, be officially opens the new road through Waipoua Forest, returning to Dargaville on Saturday, and on Monday accompanied by the two .Ministers mentioned, commences a tour of the Bay of Islands Electorate.

The few weeks spent at the seaside have done the Prime Minister good, and lie is looking very fit and well. At addresses given, he has dealt with matters principally affecting the farming community such as intermediate Blind Credits Act, and the proposed subsidy to the pork industry- and petrol tax as it affects the farmers.

INQUEST VERDICT. PATH ATI! A. Jan. (i. At file adjourned inquest yesterday on Francis ('leghorn Dempsey. 25, single, found dead on Sunday last in a bath with an empty liottle of poison nearby, a. verdict was returned of suicide through drinking poison, the act having been caused through mental depression owing to ill health and worry over an accident he had been involved in.

A MISSIONED, AUCKLAND. Jan. C. ■Miss Gwen .McCarthy, formerly a member of the Public Trust Office staff, Auckland, left to-day for Sydney en route to Chinn ns a mission sister. She vountecred for foreign mission service six years ago and has the distinction of being the first to leave the Dominion as a member of the Notre Dame Missions for China, hitherto recruited exclusively in England.