DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 July 1918, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS.

MURDERERS ESCAPE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, July 2>. Two men convicted of murder, in- , mates of tlio asylum at Avondale, es- 1 caped last night and are still at largo. ~ Ticy are Norman Edward Keals, who , murdered his sister-in-law and iier infant at Oncwhc-ro on February 8, 1915, and Taita Kai Nuku, a Rarotongan, convicted on March G, 15)17, of the mnr- ■ der of Kenneth Livingstone, at Manga- .- peehi, on July 20, 1010. TJotli men were ; last seen by the attendants in t!ie reading room of the asylum at 7.15 p.m. Shortly afterwards the door was fom:d ". open and the men missing. = i THE WOOL PURCHASE. ■ ■ n Marton, July 22. r Mr. E. Newman. MP., addressed a a meeting of the Marton Farmers' Union * on Saturday or. the purchase of the c Dominion's wool by the Imperial Gov- ° eminent, the following resolution being n earri-vl unanimously:—That this branch ; heartily approve? of the terms upon ! . which the Prime Minister lias arranged l for the sale of New Zealand wool to the ' Imperial Government until one year ' after the war, and also desires to sup. s port the proposals made by Mr. Edward * Newman, M.P.. to the effect that if ' wool-growers loedvc last year's rates for their wool it 'would he a square deal ( if all the profits from the sale of sur- ' plus wool in r.ngii'.iid should be devoted ' to a fund for the dependents of the ' brave sailors nf ths Royal Navy mid < mercantile marine, tut for whose v\g\- 1 lant protection dui'ng the last four < years this T)om'.i i«i would probably 1 have teen under a fon ign flag instsid of i in the enoyment of unprecedented pros- ' perity. i It was resolved that this resolufi-m i be forwarded d'.ne-, to the Dominion ' president, (Sir J. t' Wilson), with +rc i request that he will take what steps he ' thinks necessary to secure the support : of the whole union to the proposal conained therein. ==—