NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 180, 6 April 1915, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

.. AUSTRALIA WANTS OATS. .. FOR MILITARY PURPOSES. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, THIS DAY. The Commonweath Government has Linde application to the New Zealand Government for 8000 sacks of oats and a quantity cf oaten sheaf chaff for def ence pur poses. Th(e Premier slates that the Govesnment intends,l) grant the request. SAVINGS BANK FLOURISHING. GENERAL ITEMS. DUNEDIN, THIS DAY. DUNEDIN, THIS DAY. The Minister of Finance announces fiat the savings bank returns from {March Ist to 23rd show excess of (deposits over withdrawals amounting 3i £113,744, as. compared with excess [withdrawals over deposits totalling (£8303 for the corresponding - period of Hat year. Concerning military matters Mr. id lieu slates 100 men will form the tationary hospital offered by New Zealand and accepted by the Array Council the complement comprising 8 medical men under the charge of a 3 lent- Colonel,Warrant Officer, non com 1 issicncd officers and ambulance-men. pho officers will be selected from mem. 13rs cf the New Zealand Array Mediae il Service preference being given to Lose with experience as Territorial c facers. , Fifty nurses -will leave Wellington Text Thursday for England. Twelve Who left for Australia proceeded: to the base hospital in Prance, which 3s connected with the Australian forces. THE POULTRY BUSINESS, i THE BOTTOM FALLING OUT. (WELLINGTON; THIS DAY, It was stated at the annual conference of the Poetry Association!, [Which, opened to-day that New Zealand's export cf eggs had been most (disappointing, not so much on the ferore of poor market prices as the [wretched shipping accommodation [which spoiled more than, half the eggs (and while - eggs had not improved in Trice food was costing exactly double what it cost last year. Unless the' Government intended to se e the indusry absolutely ruined something would have to be done to relieve the pressure of dear foods. , A FINE OF £2O. FOR BETTING IN AN HOTEL. CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. At the Magistrate’s Court ;to-day, Leonard Llewellyn Grant pleaded guilty to a charge of being a bookmaker and betting in an hotel. The police said it was accused’s first offence and that he was one of the small fry. He was fined £2O. A POLICEMAN MISSING. FEARS FOE HIS SAFETY. NAPIER, This Day. Constable Donald Shaw, single, aged 38, of the Napier police force, is missing since Thursday. Fears for his safety arc entertained. COLLEGE CRICKET. ) CANTERBURY V. VICTORIA. CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The annual cricket match, Canterbury College -v. Victoria College, started yesterday. Victoria batted first and made 17 2—Craddick 70, Crump 45. Canterbury lias lost six wickets for 230.’ Crawshaw, still in, has made 134, Beal 3S.