DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 2 September 1931, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS

CANDIDATE FOR TIMARU. By Telegraph—Per Press Association) TIMARU, 'September 2. It is officially announced that Mr lerbert William Haii, well known local rchitect has been selected as the United ’arty candidate fori Timaru scat at the ;eneml election. Mr Hall has travelled xtensively and has given considerable tudy to national affairs. MOTOR-'CYCLING. WELLINGTON, September 1. Tolley (Palmerston North) and Bray Auckland), who represented New Iceland officially as contestants in tbs ’ouriSt' Trophy Motor-cycle race at the sle of Man, returned to-day. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOUR \ CONVENTION. AUCKLAND, September 1. The Rev. Lionel B. Fletcher, pastor of he Bcresford Street Congregational Lurch, who has been presiding at the nnnal Christian Epdeavour Convention n Sydney, said that the various meetngs in connection with the convention ad been attended by thousands of eople. It had been intended to engage he 'Sydney- Stadium, but when news /as received that the world’s president onid not attend the executive lost their eposit and took the Sydney Town Hall, 'his building was found to be far too mall to accommodate those wishing j gain admission, with the result that md-ppeakers had to be installed in he basement and other rooms, which ,-ere packed. / On the final night of the onference many thousands were unable o gain admission. 1 “AUSTRALIAN CONDITIONS 1 IMPROVING.” AUCKLAND, Sept.' 1. “Conditions, if .anything-’are improving in Australia,”, said Mr C. G. Macindoe, a ineinb r of, the Auckland Harour Board, who returned after a fortnight’s visit to Sydney. “Mr Lang is one of the politicians in Australia who has very few friends in the country to day,” he said. Having mixed freely wth business men and bankers during Iris short stay in Sydney, Mr. 'Miacindoe said'that he had noticed a.distinct forward movement amongst that class of the community to take a more active part in the affairs of the State than prcyiousiv. In the past those men had been apathetic, but to-day tliey were taking, considerable time n interesting; themselves in the country’s position, with .the ultimate object of endeavouring to get it back to a normal state of affairs. Tf they succeeded he felt sure that. Australia’s depression would be overcome within the next eighteen months or two years, and th r wou’d have a. decided affect on. New Zealand conditions. ■