DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 August 1928, Page 4

DOMINION NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association. EMPIRE FORESTRY DELEGATION. THE FORTHCOMING TOUR. WELLINGTON, August 18. Tho Empire Forestry delegates, between 60 and 70 in number, reach Western Australia next week and after going through Australia visit New Zealand. They arrive at Wellington on October Bth and will be formally entertained by the government at a luncheon. They leave the same night for the South Island, visiting Christchurch, Dunedin and the AVcst Coast, returning to Wellington on October 14 th, whence they go on to the National Park, Wnirnkei and Rotorua. Two days will he spent at the last-named place, inspecting the Government’s plantations. A visit to Auckland and the kauri forests at Waipoua will follow and on October 22nd and 23rd, the delegates will disperse, some returning to India and Australia, tho rest leaving for Vancouver.

AGRICULTURAL CHALLENGE SHIELD. NEW PLYAIOUTII, August 18. The Challenge Shield, presented by Henry A. Lane and Coy., of London, for competition among the boys and girls Agricultural Clubs of New Zealand, has been won by the Tilcorangi School, which scored 50 \ points. INQUEST VERDICT. GISBORNE, August 18. A verdict of death from haemorrhage tlie result of the degeneration of the cerebral vessels, was returned by Coroner Levvy, S.M., at an inquest this morning on Duncan McDonnld, aged 37, a seaman of tlie tug Pelican. McDonald was fouiid sitting on a kerb in Gladstone Road at 5 p.m. on Wednesday and died while being conveyed in an ambulance to Cook Hospital. ALLEGED MURDER CHARGE. DUNEDIN, August 18. William John Hardie, charged with tlie murder of Joe Shell at Kyeburn diggings, appeared this morning and was remanded till September Ist, vhen a date will be fixed for the hearing at Nascby, probably on Septemebr sth. SCHOOLS ACCOMMODATION. GISBORNE, August 18. Replying to representations from Gisborne for the extension ol primal' schools accommodation the Minister of education in a communication to Air AV. D. Lysnar, ALP., asks that the matter lie, deferred for two or three weeks for tlie reason that an investigation is now being made regarding the proposed extension of the junior high school system, which if given effect to would result in a re-organisation'of all schools, leaving more accommodation il'or the existing schools. importance OF MANURE. MASTER-TON, Aug. 15. An address on fertilisers was delivered by Air L. J. Wild, agricultural instructor to the Fcilding Agricultural High School, at to-day’s meeting of the Wa.irarnpn Provincial Executive of tlie Farmers’ Union. Tho speaker dealt firstlv with the respective merits and demerits of fertilisers at present in use in New Zealand, secondly with tlie benefits conferred on the farming community by tho new Fertiliser Act, and thirdly ami chiefly with the question of supply of fertilisers, which last, in his opinion, was hot as assured as it ought to be, and was n matter for ! grave concern Tho possibility of a i shortage of phosphates in New Zealand had been brought before Parliament j several times, and revision of legislation had been asked and urged without effect. The speaker believed the , whole prosperity of New Zealand was bound up with phosphates, and the ! question of supply was an urgent matter.