DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 January 1921, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

CENSUS IN APRIL. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. By a proclamation gazetted to-day it is announced that the census is due this year. The number and condition of persons, live stock, and land cultivation in New Zealairs are to be ta£en on Monday, April 18. WARNING OF DISPUTES. Wellington, Last Night. Amended regulations under the Industrial, Conciliation and Arbitration Act, gazetted to-day, provide for seven days’ notice by advertisement to be given as to the pjace for hearing and the nature of a dispute, but only after each person concerned has previously served notice in the form prescribed; and that in the absence of objection further notice may be given in the daily newspapers. . TARIFF REVISION. Wellington, Last Night. At a special meeting of the Wellington Central Chamber of Commerce tonight it was decided to set up a special committee to prepare data to place before the tariff revision committee, which is expected to sit in Wellington from February 8 to February 28. HOMESTEAD BURNED. ' Masterton, Last Night. The homestead of Mr. Norinan Groves, at Bushgrove, near Tinui, was totally destroyed by fire this afternoon. The home was valued at £4OOO, and it was recently extensively added to. The insurances are £lOOO on the house and £3OO on the furniture. It was one of the oldest homesteads in that part of the district. Little furniture was saved. The fire was caused by a defective chimney. FLAX FUNGUS RAVAGES. Palmerston N., Jan. 27. The Science Congress to-day discussed the yellow leaf disease in flax. Mr. A. Cockayne said the disease was a fungus attacking the roots and causing a complete cessation of water absorption by the roots. If an antidote was not discovered the whole flax area would be extinct in a few years. He advocated root examinations of all types of flax and the growth of such plants as appeared immune to discover if they were really immune or not. If so, then the difficulty could be overcome. There were encouraging signs that immune plants could be found, but the investigations would be slow, and By The time they were consummated there might be no flax industry. Dr. Tilyard Urged that a committee be set up, partly millers and partly scientists, to form a biological station to investigate the disease. The course was agreed upon. The scientists approached were Dr. Tilyard, Messrs. Alfred Cockayne and Waters, and the flaxmillers Messrs. Ross, Seifert and Bell. SLY GROG SELLER GAOLED. Taumarunui, Jan. 27. Before Mr. Burton, Magistrate, John Michalick was. convicted and sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for sly grog selling at Taumarunui. Four men went to accused’s house, where one man bought three bottles of whisky at 255. When the whisky was drunk and the party was leaving The house the purchaser discovered £6O missing from his pocket. This Is accused’s third conviction for sly grogging here.