NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, 16 October 1918, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

SCHOOL COMMITTEES’ ASSOCIATION. DOMINION CONFERENCE TO BE . ' HELD. V WELLINGTON, this day. The Executive of the School , Committees’ Association of New Zea- - land has decided to convene a Dominion Conference of representatives .- of school committees, which will be held at Wellington about the first week in November, during the curren- V. cy of the session, so that matters dls-'. cussed by the Conference may boplaced immediately before the memhers of the Go-vernment and Parliament. AUCKLAND ITEMS. WEEVILLY WHEAT. MORE GERMAN INTERNEES. AUCKLAND, this day. Of fifty thousand sacks of Australian wheat landed in Auckland, "over three thousand sacks were rejected by millers on acccoint of weevils. Twenty German civilians, residents of Samoa, have arrived here and been interned on Motuihi, ranking as second class prisoners of war. THE CONSOLIDATED REVENUE. WELLINGTON, Oct 15. Interviewed to-night. Sir Joseph Ward said the consolidated revenue for the six months ending September 30th, 1918, amounted to £7,056,998, • compared with £6,049,858 for the corresponding, period last year. The nee increase was 1,007,140. The expenditure- for the same period amounted to £8.252.781, against £6,485,864 for the corresponding six months last year. The increase of expenditure was thus .£1,766,917. These figures show that the increased expenditure for the first six months of the current financial year exceeded the increased revenue for the same period hy £759,777. The heavy increase in expenditure is due to interest and sinking fund charges and war pensions. H o NO MORE CASUALTY LISTS TO BE r ‘ POSTED. ■ ’ ■ ■ WELLINGTON, this day. The practice ' hitherto 1 followed of issuing casualty lists through the Telegraph Department and posting them up at all officers has been abandoned, and from to-day no more will be circulated by the Government.