DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 45, 21 February 1913, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

NEVER STRUCK OIL. (Per Press Association.) Wellington, February 21. The Wellington agents of the Kotuku oilfield, syndicate state that there is no foundation for the rumor that oil has been struck at the new boro at Kotuku. AFFORESTATION COMMISSION, Taihape, February 21. Sawmillers in the district are making common cause with millers in both islands in a vigorous protest against the non-inclusion of a representative industry on the Afforestation Commission. They advocate that Mr Morris, of Greymouth, and Air Ellis, of Hamilton, as practical representatives, and are pressing their claims strenuously; chiefly on account of the white pine reference in clause 4, it is considered imperative that the industry should bo represented. WELLINGTON MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS. Wellington, February 21. Very abruptly! the proceedings of the City Council terminated last evening, The Mayor (Mr I). McLaren) ruled an amendment of Cr. Frost’s out of order, and after a heated discussion, during which Cr. Fitzgerald said the Mayor’s ruling was a positive disgrace, Cr. Frost moved the adjournment of the Council. This was carried by nine votes to four. The Mayor informed an interviewei that the vote was unlikely to affect his course in the future, and said: “1 never have had the confidence of tin majority of the Council because, speaking from a municipal standpoint, they are opposed to me politically.”