DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 28, 2 June 1915, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS.

WANTS TO BE A SOLDIER'S WIFE. Peh Tress .Association. Wellington, .June 1. An unusual application was made at the Supreme Court to-day, when a young lady of eighteen, who is engncod to be married to a soldier ■ m camp at Trentham, asked Mr Justice Chapman to authorise the marriage, as she could not get the consent of her parents, who are inmates of mental hospitals. The Marriage Act provides in such cases that application ,uav be made to the Supreme Court to 'declare the proposed marriage a proper one. In -ranting the request, his honor remarked that the young ladv appeared quite capable of looking after herself and of making a right choice. THE DUNEDIN SHOW. Dunedin, June 1. The Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Society's Winter Show opened to-day in fine weather. The entries showed , foiling off of about 100, as compared 'with last year, when they reached a record for the society. The attend4nee was below that of last year the receipts showing a considerable alling 0 ff 5 as compared with the first day in 1914. The quality of the exhibits is very good, comparing very favourably with those of previous >e Tlw show was officially opened by the Hon. W. b'raser, who, in the course of his remarks, said the productivity of the soil would be increased by raising the number of those hoWimr land, it was little use putting people on the land if at the same time they were not given roads. In many parts of the North Island people who had been on the land for years had no roads to their places, and in pares they had to pack cream out for miles. These wine the people who needed assistance first, and it was was no light task to road such country. New Zealand was an exceedingly difficult country to road, especially in >»:o North Island, with is bush and broken country, and then metal was hard to get. In his first Public Wo-N Statement he put roads before ml- - Of what use was a railway if we'could not reach it? He was Hying to give effect to that policy, and dining the last twelve months !<c had expended on various kinds •f rueds £057,000 and on railways £610,000.