DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 August 1919, Page 7

DOMINION NEWS.

, ■ ■ *m ''' ~ . PIGEON SHOOTING. By Telegraph—Press Association. Hastings, August 2. Mr J. A. Casey (Wangauui). won the New Zealand Championship, gold medal »Dd 00 per cent of the tjweep at the live pigeon shoot, which was concluded at the Hawke's Bay Gun Club grounds on Friday afternoon; and L. M'Kelvie, J. H. Nite andi. F-sW. Whittle divided second and third money, CHILDREN AND PRODUCTIVITY. Wellington, August 2. Mr W. Stewart Wilson, in an arti- J c!c on the results achieved by the Otago | Expansion League, urges that the Government should provide funds for agricultural competitions on similar lines to encourage the. children of the country to take an interest in intensive cultivation and-train them in proper methods. He quotes the example of a boy who raised threo tons of potatoes on oneeighth of an acre as against the average yield for the Dominion of less than five tons per acre, aid also similar competitions in America, where they have developed into a great national movement. swimming" Chlfi3tehurch, August 2. A meeting of the New Zealand Swimming Council considered the refusal of the Canterbury Centre to obey n direction of the Council. It was resolved that ths Centre and the members thereof be suspended until they appear before - the Council. SECRETARY CHARGED WITH THEFT Napier, August 2. James Scheele, secretary of the Hos» pital and Charitable Aid Board, appeared in the Police Court charged with the theft of £22 7s 2d, the property of the Board. On the application of the police he was remanded until August VI. It wa's stated by the police there would be a total defalcation of over £IOOO. THE WHANGAREI SUICIDE'CASE. Gisborne, Aug- 2. The police this afternoon arrested a girl named Pearl Burke, 18 years of age, on a charge of hav>.og aidsd and abetted Jessie West, at Whnnenre> on July 2, to commit shield >. Applv.itio!i for her remand to. Auckland will be made.