TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2033, 27 March 1913, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

MR J. BETT, PRESIDENT

PEB PEESa ASSOCIATION. Wellington, March 26. At the coaclimakers' conference -the following officers were elected: President, Mr J. Bett (Palmerston); VicePresidents, Messrs J. Oriniston Wiliite (Dunedin), and F. Rouse (Wellington) ; Secretary, Mr G. Dash (Waimate); Executive committee, Messrs E. James (Blenheim), T. Childs (Stratford), Waitken (Auckland), Whittaker (Hamilton), Q. Faulkner (iNapier), and one member yet to be elected to represent Christcirarch. CONSTABLE'S STRANGE DEED. Hamilton, March 27. Constable Dandy, in charge of Taupo. shot himself with- a revolver last night. No reason i s assigned. He leaves a wife and young family. MAYORALTY Of' DUNEDIN. Dunedin, March 26. _Mr Wm. Belcher, Secretary of the seamen's Union, has definitely decided to contest the Mayoralty. SOUTHLAND SECRETARYSHIP. Invercargill, March 26. iifty-nine applications were received fur the position of secretary to the Southland Education Board. A meeting of the Board selected the following three applicants, who will be asked to meet the Board on Friday -Mr A. Bell, M.A., secretary South Canterbury Board; Mr George J.' A Pa , rk - B-Com., Christchurch Technical College; Mr N. H. Chapman, i>.A., Registrar Otago University. TERRITORIALS IN CAMP. _. Christchurch, March 26. Ihe Territorials in camp at Yaldhurst were ptit through marching ■ and entraining and detraining lr.ento to-day. In the morning they marched i from the camp and through the city. They lunched in Hagley' i'ark, and then marched to the railway station. They entrained in tivo troop trains, detrained at Hornby and marched back to Yaldlmrst.

THE LAND HUNGER.

Auckland, March 27. ■Ihere wa g a rush for Hauralri i .ains land this morning. The Crown Ltuids Board received 4257 applications by 1092 applicants for 112 sections, so great was the crash that the Board adjourned to the Sailore' -Mission Hall. Some 250 applicants woie ruled ineligible for various reasons, mostly because married applicants take precedence over single men. '