NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3791, 12 May 1928, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

'Parliament /will ‘probably meet on June 28th.

The season for taking salmon in South Canterbury rivers will close next Monday. i The Wairoa (II.B.) freezing works have closed down for the season. Half the offices in the big new buildings in Auckland aro unoccupied. Hindu cheap labour is creeping into this district, on at least one farm, says the Hnnterville Express. The Manawatu County TrafficInspector, Mr. W‘. Berry, reported to the last meeting of the Manawatu County Council that during the month £4 in motor fines had been collected. Says the Hnnterville Express: The United candidate for Oroun twice declined nomination by the Reform Party. The Hawke’s Bay Acclimatisation Society has elected to purchase 400,000 brown trout ova and 300,000 rainbow trout eyed ova so as later to replenish the trout streams of its district.. The £5,000,000 loan just-raised by the Government is lo be alio rated for the following purposes: Public Works, £3,000,000; hydroelectric power, £.1,000,000; and railway improvements, £1,000,000.

There are so many motorists in Wellington who failed to renew their licenses that a special day has been set aside by the Court to hear the eases. There are over 100 eases.

As authorised vendor of number plates has been busy in Aueklasd and suburbs numbering houses or. a system of his own, which is entirely at variance with the established one. The result lias been don fusion.

There was plenty of game round about New Plymouth 50 years ago. On May 1, 1878, one sportsman shot six brace of pheasants at Omata, two others between them got 19 brace at Wlaiwahaiho, and on May 2, another got 15 birds in 90 minutes along Carrington r. nd.