DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 December 1918, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

J; WHEAT PBICES FIXED' ®y. T»legrsph.--Prea» AsaociatieV Wellington, Z&st NlgEt. Cabinet had under consideration to day the firing of the prices for wheat forthe 1918-19 and 1915-20 harvests. Forthe coming harvest the arrangement had ' been that there should i»a minimum of 6a 4d per bushel, Ibut that the growers should have a, free market for the sale of their grain, which meant that they.; could get as much more than 6a 44Mi the market ■would give them. The®! .growers considered there ought to fee k 'definite price, and this haa sow teen agreed upon by the Government There is) to be a definite price also for 1319-20/ Cabinet decided to-day on the prion to be offered to growers, and they -willbe communicated to the growers at Christchurch to-morrow by Mr. W. Q. MacDonald, of the Board' "of Trade. In thsei meantime, the Minister in, charge «f v 'th#' business is not announcing the price. PICTURE SH(W WORKERS, "*'• Wellington, Last Nlglrt. A deputation from the workers in thr picture show business in' Auckland waited to-day on the Acting-Premier, and asked him to use his influence to hare the operation of the Act suspended until it could be amended 'by Parliament. Sir James Allen replied that he tfould, communicate with the Minister'for'JPub« i lie Health on the matter. AWARD OF MHJTASYr MEDALS. ' Wellington, last Night, the" following members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Foree on Activw service have been awarded Military Medals, all being privates unless otherwipe specified:—Richard J. Ward, Thos. , O. Kennedy, Corporal Ernest A. Anderson, Lance-Corporal W. Wakelin, Rob* ert H. fitapley, William H. Smith, Ser* jreant Andrew !D. E. Stewart, Gunner Rav P. London, Lance-Corporal "Dudley <T\ iF. .Teunc, William Gf. Oakley, William .J. Crossen, Corporal Harold N. Day, Lance-Corporal James A. Howden, James E. Hewitt, Corporal Thomas S- Harper, Hugh McLean. Finn, Frederick 0. Barber, William E- Ramsey. Alfred H. Dillon, Corporal Henry Kusbride. C.SM. Walter J. Perry. Sergeant Carlton C. Henry, Lance-Corporal Charles W. Tepenei Lance-Sergeant Frederick J.' Carter, Sergeant Francis R. Martin' (Italian Bronze Medal) : , William J. T. Morrow (killed in action,, Oct. 0, 1913),, R. Phillips, J. Cameron. '■ v NEW DIVING' SUIT. ' * Auckland, December 17. ■ A diving suit invented by F. W. Walters, of Auckland, was tested in Hauraki Gulf. The inventor, with a suit on, descended to a depth of 32 J fathoms, which is reported to he a world's record j for. diving with that kind of apparatus- ■