N.Z. TELEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10081, 31 August 1910, Page 5

N.Z. TELEGRAMS.

(By Telegraph—Press Association. EKETAHUNA DAIRY UNION.

EKETAHUNA, Last Night.

At the annual meeting of the New Zealand Farmers' Dairy Union today, the chairman quoted figures to show that the Union would soon have paid off all the borrowed money since 1896. The output has more than trebled, while the interest and working expenses only increased by about 25 per cent. Suppliers had received ( IOJd for butter fat this season, the I highest yet paid by the Union. The increased production this year was 134 tons of butter and 116 tons of cheese. The pasteurisers installed would enable farmers to produce better calves, and there would be less disease in pigs. Mr Parsons, continuing, said the Dominion's produce for disposal should, ba placed in the hands ef a few good firms, who could regulate the price, He favoured a Commissioner, as was the case in Denmark, to >regulace local sales according to the supply and demand. Tne prospects for the ssason had never before been so good. / *

THEFI AT LEVIN

LEVIN, Last Night.

John Earnshaw, Henry Robert Hunt, and Leslie E'lis, three young men who are alleged to have burglariously entered the Levin Hotel and stolen therefrom a safe, money and valuables, estimated at the .value of £l6O, were to-day committed for trial at the Wellington Supreme Court sessions next November. The evidence showed that the safe had been shifted over a quarter of a mile and there blown open with dynamite. All the stolen property has been recovered except one cheque.

AN ABSCONDING CREDITOR.

WELLINGTON, Last Night.

Instances of persons in an insolvent position departing from Wellington without facing their creditors have become so common of (ate that ■. tradesmen have . decided to show that such practice will not be per mi tied" to con trade w ithou t some opposition. The latent instance of sudden departure is : hat of Alfred Prank Biggins, vjr'oceri of Welling-. ton> whri was adjudicated bankrupt in the Supreme Uourt on Monday. The bankrupt has beeh traced to Hobart. To-day the Receiver in the estate, Mr A. Simpson, Official As« signee, with the sanction of the creditors, took out a warrant for the arrest of Higgins. A constable will be sent to Hobart by; Thursday's steamer to bring the absconder back. A first meeting of. creditors will be held on' Friday.