DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1929, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS.

CULPRITS CAUGHT. (By Telegraph—Press Association). AUCKLAND, September 5. Nathaniel Cameron Gow was charged at the Police Court with breaking and entering a shop on Karangahape Road, and stealing 350 gramophone records, valued at £118; also with stealing carpenters’ tools valued at £l9, from a job at Epsom. Accused admitted having gained an entry to the premises by scaling the fence and battering a hole through the floor early in the afternoon. He was committed for sentence, as was also Harry Foreman, 27, a se-cond-hand dealer, who admitted receiving from Gow 240 gramophone records, for which he paid £6O, knowing them to have been stolen. A DEPUTATION’S REQUEST. "WELLINGTON, September 5. A request that the Government should impose an export tax on all sheepskins shipped in wool and on all scouring wools shipped in grease or alternatively that an embargo should be placed on the export of such commodities, was made to Sir J. Ward today, the Minister of Education' and the Minister of Customs, by a deputation representing the fellmongery and wool scouring industry. Sir J. Ward replied that the matter was a very difficult one, but worthy of the fullest investigation. If an export tax were applied it would have to be general in application. He confessed he did not know enough about the matter to give, a- definite reply. He promised to have it thoroughly investigated. DAMAGES FOR SHARE-MILKER, , HAMILTON, September 5. Damages for alleged negligence and breach of a share-mliking .agreement totalling £975, were claimed by William Norton, of Auckland, against Frank Thompson Irvine, (farmer, of Crini, at the Supreme Court. It was announced to-day that a settlement was expected, whereby the defendant consented to judgment for £125 and costs of £SO. NEW EXCHANGE RATES. WELLINGTON, September 5. The Union Bank of Australia’s Wellington Office has been advised from London that the following rates' of exchange, London on New Zealand, will come into force on September 4th: — Negotiating bills of N.Z.: Demand, 40s per cent discount; 30 days 51.3 s per cent discount; 60 days, 62s 6d per cent discount; 90 days, 73s 9d per cent discount. Selling drafts and telegraphic transfers on New Zealand: Demand, 20s per cent discount; telegraphic 15s per cent discount.

FRUIT CONTROL BOARD

WELLINGTON, September 3

The election of two producers’ representatives oil the New Zealand Fruit Export Control Board,,took place this week. The elections resulted :— : Auckland-Taranaki Provincial District: Frank Firth, 62; Henry Stratton Izard 34. Mr Firth was elected.

Canterbury-Nelson-Marlbo-rough Provincial District: John Liddell Brown, 199; John William MacLeod 22. Mr Brown was elected.