FATAL ACCIDENT.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 6491, 18 September 1915, Page 2

FATAL ACCIDENT.

Dunedin.Scpfcio Uiymon-1 Hocking Mport nine years, lost his life on l|ur2 evening. The boy was in tfe |S of playing soldiers, mm « ; J. R °U pointed .ticks and it is sippfoß^ one of these into his eye. No witnessed the accident^ '% °^ mother of the boy heard hill Cl • and took him home. Mopre to the hospital, where fe di^ mgitis having apparently setio

The following alterations totharat roll were authorised at tjie la#hieetiii of the borough Council* C (Sa tBOn / E Thompson, part lot'lo, aH otm^ olb, section 2; Public Trustee (T Turnbull's Estate) to} B Giund r Z u7l, section 2; II H Cfeinson to jjl ft Mulhons, part lots 215; 21Gy./ B ectioQ 2A 0 Jouassen to F Josasseu', lot 476* section 2; M. Moon to £ Earl, lot 221* section 1; G Whitcoin|e to A Petherbridge, lot 100, scltion 2j: CB i Bucknill to J Delepirii, Borough l eaße section 2: lots 236' 2H, 208, section 2, H B Mountfort and E I Baker to A J Edwards; part lots 237 and 238 section I, Hls Mouutfort to E-f Baker, part lot 69, keotion 1, a W Edwardß to H H England; pare block 17, (J M R, Taurang^ H B Alouiu£ or t to ill T Baker; lot Ju, sectiou i X Tliouipsou toi)E YVocllam*; lot 31 section 2, T ThompsoQ to Mrs Nornsl

A groat building, tchouseall farmers organisations under cne roof, is proposed for Weliingtm. A site has been selected and the purchase [* roughly, £16,000 fojthree adjoining sections. Conference halls, offices for the Farmers' UnioD,and a warehouse also club and privati hotel acc?mtno' dation for farmers, are proposed. la fact it would be tie New Zealand headquarters for farmers, and would be known as tbo famers' Institute.

The Matamata braich of the Farmers' Union has started experimental closes under an Educationßoard saperinten. dent, but hopes to jet the assistance of the Government;

"lean hit the bull's eye at 600 yards," said Mr WJT Jennings in the House of Represeiatives. "I Irate three sons zt the frnt: . . anJ lam willing to go aud srve myself." He did not believe wehad been told the whole truth aboifthe war, and we would yet. have to bake big sacrifices, and if his service^vere required they were at the dispoal of the authorities, as they had been in the Maori war in 1869. he|) Ac tha last meajng of the tfatathitt Ojuq t Council a|gal opinion regird* iag the registratiti of dogi owoeiby Maoris was givdj? by Mjdsrs Lams aud D^lliinofe, sdcitors, as follows: " We are uf opinjn thdt your ojuncil has u> power in tie muter of unregistered dogs own| by Maoris living within the lirnitsof a Maori Council district. The fa| that Maoris, when requested ttf pay pur council registrar tion fees, do notjprpduco a collar or receipt to verify jheir Statement that their dogs are restored with the Maori Council, seams to point to the conclusion that the $faori Council is not carrying out itjj duties as the 'local authority ' underlie Dog Registration Act. In this i)nnection we might point out that s^-section 2 of section Bof the Maori Councils' Amendment Act empowers I Maori Oouucil to enter into any Irrangcment it thinks fit with any Eitfpeaii local authority for the < legistition of Maori dogs. The question t the Maori Oouucil havicg preced|ce over the County Council does i|t arise, the former having exclusivipo\ver to register the Maori dogs as sated above. J>

The monthljjineeting of the Tauranga Chambowf Commerce will be held in the Bofugh Council Chambers on Monday evcling next at 7 30.

A splendid jyo reel feature melo* drama produee^by the Kaiem compauy entitled "Expris Messenger" will be the star pictu| at the Opera House this evening.! An hilarious farce, "Jenks and thtparber," and a thrilliog story of love afl danger, "Matter of Minutes," arfjalso included in tlie programme. .In interesting up-to-date war tcfical, a pathetic and tender drama f hep's Race with Death' and "Lovers! Luck," / a beautiful Keystone, ie^uriog Koscoe Arbucle, complete an excellent program me.