DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 July 1918, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

HELPEW TEE INDIGENT. By Telegraph.—Press Association, i Wellington, Jiriy 12. Tha Minister of Public Health has given instructions for the issue of a circular to all hospital boards that, in his opinion, the recipients of old-age pensions, resident in homes and other institutions controlled by boards, should be allowed, in addition to a tobacco allowI ance, two slrilling» a week for their- private use. *' ! __ KBATH IN CAMP. WeDingtori, Last Night. Private J. M. Ashworth, 80082, of «he 44th Mounted Rifles, died at Featherston military camp hospital to-day. ! TEE 96T8. Wellington, Last NigMi, The Minister for Defence is advised that the 39th Reinforcements have been' reported from a port of call. The health of the trttops is excellent. TORUTORiU MOKAI AJMVERSARY. Hawera, Last Night. The fiftieth anniversary of Turuturu Mokai was celebrated at Hawera to-day. Several veterans and old colonists met in the town, where addresses to school children were given, and a luneheon held in honor of the survivors of the fight and of the old colonists. later, a visit was paid to the site of the engagement, where two of the survivors, George Tuffin and J. G. Beamish, planted a tree. Cosslett Johnstoi), a third survivor, was unable to be present. IMPERIAL PURCHASE OP WOOL. Dannevirke, July 12. Mr. Lysnar addressed a largely-attend-ed meeting of farmers of southern ffawtoe's Bay upon the Imperial wool purchase, setting forth the grounds of nis opposition to the commandeer extending for longer than thre months after the war. He said the shortage oT shipping was not likely to a'ffect the position after the war, because the ships bringing back the troops would be available to lift the wool. Replying to the argument that South Africa had suffered by depending on an open market, he said ■ that country, although the clip showed a' shrinkage of 28,000,0001b last year, a# compared with 1315, had profited by £4,220,000. ; j A "motion was unanimously tarried voicing an emphatic protest against! manufacturers in England being allowed to make high prices out of the Dominion's surplus wool, which was being sold for ciyiSt&n requirements to the trade at cost price, and much: below the actual^ The remainder ; of the in similar terms to i; that carriedfat ot Gisborn&j woolgrowera. ' jj ■ 'it>" : i|