DOMINION NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 129, 1 May 1940, Page 8

DOMINION NEWS.

Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, April 30. A drum of bitumen caught fire and exploded when it was being emptied in a Public Works Department sprayer at Palmerston yesterday, Robert Walsh, a lorry driver, receiving burns necessitating hospital treatment. Another man was less severely burned. WELLINGTON,' April 30. The following sale was reported on the Stock Exchange to-day : Four per cent. Inscribed Stock, 1955, £lO6 15s. The Stock Exchange Association lias received cabled advice that the Henry Jones Co-op. Association has declared an interim dividend of Cd per share payable on June 1. An improvement was shown in the recruiting figures in Wellington during April, compared with the previous month, the total being 445, of whom 25 have enlisted since Anzac Day. The total enlistments in the Wellington district are no.v 5085, of whom 3387 have been passed lit and 2330 have been sent to carnp. The Government lias appointed the committee which will have the responsibility of advising on the area set aside at Bastion Point for the memorial to the late Mr Savage. It consists of Mr J. T. Mair (Government architect) and Mr J W. Mawson (town planner), who are to take steps to secure appropriate designs, for which a public competition is probable.