GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 249, 11 March 1913, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

A MAORI MEKTIXG. By Telegraph.—Per Press Association. Gisborne, Monday. At the Te Arai Uni to-day formal offerings from the tribes are to be made. It is expected that the donations will easily exceed the cost of the ei-r-'ion of a new church, which will approximately i be £2300. CONTROL OK MILK SUPPLY. Dunedin, Monday. Mr. Scott, secretary of the South' Island Dairy Associaion, thinks that a campaign should he started in Dunedin for correcting the present weak spot in the dairying industry, uameiv, the quality of the milk supply. The Agricultural Department will have to take more stringent measures; all the factories should adopt the Xorth Island plan of employing an official, paid for by factories. to go round and inspect machines, premises and utensils. The inferior quality of butter was traceable to home separation. Mr. Bolt and other leading dairymen have been very outspoken about this, and their contentions iiavo been proved up to the hilt. LOCAL COVLRXMRXT. Auckland, Sunday. In replying to the Mayor of Auckland's .strictures on his proposed change ill the local government system, the Hon. F. M. I!. Fisher stated to a Herald representative yesterday that he had no intention of suggesting that the experts (to whom he considers the control of important municipal enterprises should be entrusted) should be appointed by the (Jovernment. He said that Mr. Parr evidently misunderstood his remarks, perhaps because, he had not made his j meaning clear. He did not propose ih:>l the (.overninent should take control of the cities, but that some, change in the present system was necessary.