TO-DAY'S NEWS.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17393, 2 March 1922, Page 6

TO-DAY'S NEWS.

Local and General. Speaking at Marton yesterday, Mr Massey predicted a improvement in prices for the Dominion's produce, and congratulated the farmers of Now Zealand upon the constitution of the Meat Producers' Board. The feature of yesterday's Addington stock market was tho very heavy yarding of store sheep, which met with a good sale. Fat lamb export prices averaged within a fraction of 7d per lb, and an over-supply of fat Rheep caused a drip in mutton values of from 2s 6d to 3s 6d per head. The Hon. G. J. Anderson, in reply to an unemployment deputation, stated that a committee of Cabinet has been («t up to prepare, with the assistance of the local bodies of the Dominion, to deal with unemployment during the coming winter. Jn tho Winder broach of promise action at Wellington, the jury returned a verdict for plaintiff, assessing the damages at £BOO, with costs on the highest scale. Rifleman D. Roots, of Hawera, won the Ballinger Rifle Champion Belt at the Greytown Rifle Meeting. Certain alterations in the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act and in tho Workers' Compensation for Accidents Act were asked for by deputations representing trades unionists which waited on tho Hon. G. J. Anderson, Minister of Labour. • The Safety First Campaign Committee met last night, when arrangements for a ireek'B demonstration were further advanced. The results of the school teacheis' examinations are announced. Foreign. Princess Mary was married to Viscount Lascolles in Westminster Abbey on Tuesday. Egypt has been created an independent sovereign State subject to certain reservations, and the British Protectorate has been terminated. A provisional agreement has been roached between the Reparations Commission and Germany., providing for an annual payment of 720,000,000 marks in cash and 1)450,000,000 marks in kind. A New York message sayß four more Wall street brokera have suspended business. The organising committee of the International Corporation has submitted its proposals for the re-establishment of credit in Europe. A shipping strike in China in January and February had paralysed the coastal trade. In an affray at BoksTburg, Transvaal, strikers fired on the police, who replied, kilting two men.