DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 April 1920, Page 8

DOMINION NEWS.

A'serious charge Jsy Telemi>h. —Press Association. Wellington, April 10. James Newberry was charged in the Magistrate's Court with the attempted murder of Caroline Cooper and Annie Skjoth. The police said one of the women was in hospital in a serious condition. Accused was remanded for a week. SHORTAGE OF BUILDING TIMBER. Hamilton, April 10. Replying to a deputation asking for an addition to the Leamington School, the Minister of Education said his department at the present time was in what might' be described a.3 an ironical position. Parliament had been liberal in supplying more money and in, instituting a big school 'building programme, hut, although the department had the money and claims for dozens of new buildings, and hundreds of applications for improvements, the greatest difficulty was experienced in getting supplies of timber. It seemed to him that the department and local bodies were going to find the greatest difficulty in future in erecting new buildings. He would do his duty as far as he could to education by seeing its claims 'placed among the very first. It might be he would ask the Government to give education a prior claim on timber supplies, even over workers' homes, as the i-chnol was the first necessity in any community. EIRE AT CHEVIOT. ■ Wellington, April 10. The secretary of the General Post Office has received the following telegram from the Postmaster at, Cheviot: An extensive fire occurred here at 2 o'clock this morning in which a block of buildings comprising an empty dwelling house, the offices of Dalgety'and Co.. a .hop occupied hy Weatherbon, and the Town Hall, were completely destroyed.