TO-DAY'S NEWS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18309, 17 February 1925, Page 6

TO-DAY'S NEWS.

I LOCAL AND GENERAL. | , jjj Waimakariri Glaciers. | Mr A. P. Harper, tho well-known I alpinist, has offered his services to I tho Progress League in connexion | with its endeavours to make the | "Waimakariri glacial region more 1 accessible to campers and alpinists. 1 Garden Notes. I Garden Xotes will be found on page 2. | Hospital Board's Building Programme. Tho North Canterbury Hospital Board is obtaining an opinion of tho contributory bodies on the suggestion that the funds wherewith to carry out its programme of building 1 should be raised by levy carrying || Government subsidy (instead of loan), the payment of the levy to jjj extend over five, fifteen, or twenty years. 'I Letters to the Editor. 1 Letters to the Editor will be found ft on page 2. | BRITISH AND FOREIGN. ; The Far East. i The "Lokal Anzeigcr," Berlin, states g that a Kusso-Japanese-Chinese | treaty was signed at Berlin in January last. ;i || Irish Free State. It is said tliat the Irish Free State Treason Bill is the final effort to come to grips with the dc Valera party. Canada and the. States. The" rush of Canadian young men and women to take positions in the United States provided the medium for an important discussion in the House of Commons. fourth Test Match. .With England's first innings score-of | 548 to face, Australia, in the , Fourth Test Match, had lost five wickets for 168 runs when rain stopped play for tho day.