TO-DAY'S NEWS.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17414, 27 March 1922, Page 6

TO-DAY'S NEWS.

Local and General. RcL'ardiii" the proposed Tekapo power jvh-iiic the Hon. d. G. Coates, Minister of Public Works, states that ;\n scon as Hie Tower lin.ird. when established, shows lh.it |wwor developed at La.k-> Tehapo can bo supplied to consumers ;.•■ a reas-iiiable rate," the license to proceed w.V. I;c i.-->ied. BTi„- Xew Zealand Meat Producers' Ho.'.nl express the opinion that thereis no i'l-lilieation for buyers deducting the meat pool hw iroin their invoices: the proper c;iun, is for them to make allowance for it in their limits. The has decided l<. profecnte Hit-hop l.iMon nn a charge oi seditions utterance. •V; the tvmiH «: :i vi-if of in-p-rtioil to'the Arthur's ]\v,s tunnel on tiiiv. t'ne. II m. .I. (I. C-oales Mnvst-r ..I Public Work-, M;!.(/-i that, g-ncral y, iho work -V. proceeding satislacte.rilv. He 'lces not anticipate any a.ierati-in or hi, previous statement- that the lino , Ihr.oiL'h th" tunnel will Ik- in operation ' about the end of the present yeu\ Wellington defeated Canterbury at 'tennis by j:i matches to 1. Foreign. Mr Henry Ford has adopted the 40lirnr week in all bis factories. A seaplane fell into I'lir soil off tho ■■ coast of Florida, ami five lives were lost. The need lor the adoption of a national non-party policy, particularly in ; . Australia, in regard to immigration is I stressed in n London message. Tho X'aval Vote was passed by the House of Commons. , ' : Three officers and L<3 men yerisli-j-l I in the submarine Trl4'2. i Two sixteen-year-old boys who es--5 caped from reformatory home., in VicI toria fctole rifles and ammunition and CIOOO worth of goods from a store. i Thiy were followed by police .and volunteer searchers. Ono was captured but tho other, though surrounded, was holding out in tilie bush. \nothcr case of plaguo is reported [I in Brisbane. It is said the principal causes of the-pi-cent condition of the beef, market in Britain are due to the war of prices be- ' tweon the Argontino exporters and the flooding of tho market with Argentinemeat. The Commonwealth Government is? i taking steps to assist graziers in conset"' quenco of the depression, in the moat market. \ At a oonfereneo of representative* of '■■ the Queensland dairying industry, tm> {■)■" Premier elaborated tho Governments t* 1 ' policy for stabilising the primary indus- ?" tries. The conference decided to apt point an advisory board for tho dairying ~ ojndnstry. i A shortage of butter supplies is caus" $ log anxiety in tho London market. jaj* The United States Senate ratified the W , Pacific Treaty by 67 votes to 27, and s»' 'adopted a reservation by Senator Bran«F Vtfegae by ,90 votes to 2. A large numHj&JjJSr of other Amendments and reservaAllied experts' conference recom'the rooognitjetn, of the Russian Govornment immediately after done