DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 January 1918, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

*— -*■ ■—> '■ to , hi A HEAVY PINE. \ j By Telegraph.—Press Association. *? Auckland, Last Night", '/* William Lane, a bookmaker, ■wai'ftttoJl' £175 on three charts of betting la' hotels. , v ,j GOVERNMENT RESERVE TRANS*" ,'i PEERED. < Auckland, Last Night. The Hon. T. M. Wilford, Minister charge of Prisons, has agTeed to tranft*s fer an additional 2} acres of Mount JCdWp gaol reserve, fronting the School Board's property, to the boariß*ii([<i order to enlarge the playing area SURVEYORS' CO.WERENCfi. Auckland, Jan. fr. The annual conference of the Institutaifj of Surveyors opened to-day. "Ehe report] stated that only half the surveyor! ijtfl the Dominion were members of ptitute and something was necessary get them all in. It had been suggwteilS that the (.'overnment charge a ols two guinefts as annual license, one giiinqtij to go to the Institute, giving evdty SUrv'i veyor the right of membership, also pay. " (ng the expenses of the Surveyors* Boar&/ Officers were elected as follows:—tret ! ><ident, Mr. W. Hastings Bridge (Chriati 'J church); vice-presidents, Messrs P. Chambers (Auckland), H. Sladden (Wel« J lington); treasurer, Mr. W. C. Smujt ;,, i (Wellington); secretary, Mr. C. D. Mow peth (Wellington). ' «• GOVERNMENT MEAT SCHEME. ti Wellington, .Tan. 9..' j§ The Prime Minister say* the .Oovern»,'yl ment lately completed an R£r»pnicnt with 'i* all freezing companies under wliich re-"J tail butchers in the dominion can ob* tain supplies of meat at Imperial puy» ;'i prices for tJhe purposes of tmfo 1"! retail trade. This agreement expressly, H provides that meat to be supplied bo either freshly killed or frozen, fiJiAH!!,'.' already operating in some centres where \ butchers ,ire receiving freshly killed meaf >j from companies. Other butchers' '"i the same after obtaining U;o n&reßSAni *J IVrmit, so long us the class of meatAegi quired is available in the preinissg'of raw i, 1 " freezing company from which it is to draw supplies. The only ch&tgVKnl the abattoir fees and a minimum «>*««»' for storage. ti THE 31st and 32nd RETXFORCEMEOTfIfc "*% otc - . . Wellington, Last Night,,. nH Official advice has been received by {fig &[ Minister for Defence thit the 3l(t MS*/."-! ■32 nd Reinforcements have *Ji at their destination. , '"''ffl