DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 December 1930, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

PRESBYTERIAN BIBLE CLASSES. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.! MASTERTON, December 29. Between five and six hundred delegates to the Presbyterian Bible Class Sumer Conference nre assembled in Mnsterton on the occasion of the annual conference, which is extending to January 5. The delgates were extended a civic welcome by the Mayor Mr T. Jordan", and to-day was marked bv numerous activities, sectioned meetings, a business session, sport and addresses. The annual North versus South Island cricket match was won by the North Island by eight wickets To-dav the speakers were Rev. R. M. Ryburn, H. Davis, and Mrs Davis, Revs. R. J. Howie and J. S. Laughton. N.Z. CHESS CONGRESS. ROTORUA December 29. In the third round-, Miller beat Herbert Maddox beat Fairburn, Severne beat Pleasants, Erskine beat Gyles, Freenfield beat Kelling, Grierson beat Kummer. The position of the players is Erskine 3, Severene 3, Maddox 2s; Gyles 2; Kelling 2; Grierson, Greenfield, Miller, Fairburn and Pleasants 1 each, Kummer MINE PROPERTY DESTROYED. REEFTON, Dec. 29. A bush fire on Saturday, at Progress Mines, started, as far as is known, by children, traversed up the hillside, nnd destroyed a store and contents, and the caretaker’s cottage, in the rear of the, store, owned by the Progress Mines, Ltd.