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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3117, 22 June 1917, Page 5

The Hon. Sir James Allen is leaving for Auckland to-morrow. He will leave on Morfday night to return to Wellington. A Press Association telegram from Auckland says that Jlr. Ramsay Jfartyn Wilson, of tho firm of Wilson and Hwtou, proprietors-.of the "New Zealand Herald/' lias died at Denver, U.S.A., i" his fortylirst year. Mr. Wilson had .)>een ailing for some time, and went to Denver to consult: a specialwt. A Press Association cablegram from Sydney slates that gales and heavy rain arc disorganising tho shipping and delaying -telegraphic communication. Regulations empowering tho Resident Commissioner of the Cook Islands to arrange for tho isolation of persons sufierin« from leprosy are isiied in this weeks Gazette. Powers of inspection and examination are provided. '[\vo members of the Board of Trade, Messrs. W. G. Jtacdonald and I.'. Hally, have returned from the South Island, where they havo been gathering iniormalioii on several subjects. Ouo of tho matters investigated by them was tho simply of timber of butter-boxes, hi view of tho rapid exhaustion of tho white pine forests. They heard ovidonco in Southland regarding tho quantity of red birci available for milling. Red birch wjncli is plentiful in Southland, is stated to make excellent butter-boxes. It is lighter in weight and darker in colour that white pine, and has been used to some extent in the manufacture of furniture. Messrs Mawlonald and Hally have begun the"promised investigation of coal prices, but tho tracing of costs and charges from the pit to the consumer will involve much study, and cannot bo completed i|ii icily. A notice in this week's Clazctic fixes (he closing hours for pork butchers simps in Hie city of Wellington; in ai> ■■orrinncfi with » rerpiisilion signed by a majority or tho occupiers. Iho shops are to cloio at 8 [>.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, w P-m. "n baturdays, and ! p.m. on Wednesdays, *