NEWS BREVITIES

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 80, 25 June 1927, Page 1

NEWS BREVITIES

Preferential Voting Bill.—Mr. J. McCombs has given notice in the Hfcuae of Representatives for leave to flftluce a Preferential Voting Bill. from Hawera that members of the local astronomical society have located the Pon3-Winnecke comet. They are believed to b 9 the first to sight it in hfitw Zealand. —Press Association. England Win*. —At the International Horse Show, England retained the Prince of Wales Gup for jumping tests for officers, beating France, Italy, Irish Free State, Poland, Belgium and Sweden. —A. and N.Z.

Secretary for the Gold Coast. —Mr. T. S. Thomas, deputy chief secretary to the India Office, has been appointed Colonial Secretary for the Gold Coast. He succeeds Sir James Maxwell, who ■was recently appointed Governor of Northern Rhodesia. —A. and N.Z.

Christchurch Cyclist Injured.—As a result of a collision between a motorcycle and a car in Oxford Terrace, Christchurch, yesterday, Bruce Ayson, who was riding the cycle, was taken to hospital in an unconscious condition, suffering from injuries to his head, foot and ankle.

Timant College Director.—Mr. Alex Mc'Fadyen, at present instructor of engineering at the Dunedin Technical I'ollege, has been appointed director of the Timaru College by the Board of Managers. There were 26 applications from various parts of the Dominion and Australia. —Press Association.

Land for Settlement.—Twenty-three applications have been received by the Sotrth Auckland Crown Bands Department for sections or' the blocks of i rovvn land in the Rotorua, and Te Kuiti districts recently offered for settlement under the homestead system. The conditions were outlined in THE SU N on Thursday.

Gaol for Car Thieve*. —The South Island Motor Union has decided to press for imprisonment without the option of a line in cases of wrongful conversion of cars. In addition, the union will urge that magistrates should have power to award owners compensation up to £IOO. a further term of imprisonment to be the alternative.— Press Association.

Conserving Whitebait Industry.—The Marine Department is seriously considering the question of conserving the New Zealand whitebait industry. Last evening the Acclimatisation Society considered a letter from the department asking for information regarding the industry in the Auckland district. It was stated by members that whitebait were being thinned out in the Waikato River as a result of the operations of two companies which sent the bulk or their catch out of the country.