DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 June 1917, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS.

ANOTHER ADVANCE IN pGAR. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, June 20. The Minister of Commerce states that the Government has entered into a fresh arrangement with the Colonial Sugar Refining- Company for another year, at an increase of £1 a ton. The present arrangement expires at the end of this month. THE TE ANAU FIRE ENQUIRY. Napier, June 20. The inquest on the To Anau fatality was' continued. Medical evidence was taken, and the hearing adjourned-for the evidence of an explosives expert of the Marine Department. PAYMENT FOR MEAT IN STORE. Wellington, June 20. Hon. W. D. S. MacDouald states that as the result of negotiations with tJhc War Office he proposed making a payment of two millions on account of meat iii store, but as this appeared to be unsatisfactory, he had now received word from the High Commissioner, in reply tn a cable, that the War Office had decided to assume the ownership of all meat in store in the Dominion, but no payment is to be made until it is f.0.b., and also agreeling, after a certain date, to pav insurance and additional' storage. The Government and the companies have, accepted those terms and foregone all claims under the two .million scheme first proposed. \