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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 96, 18 January 1924, Page 10

Messrs. Dalgety and Co. have received the following cablegram from their London house dated January 16: —Butter: Since our last report prices are 4s. per cwt. lower. Prices for butter are' now as follows: —New Zealand; salted 2085., Danish 2205., finest Australian salted 2025., unsalted 2045. The Minister of Customs has fixed March 1 next as the date for the coming into force of a duty of five-six-teenths of a penny per pound on sugar of No. 22 colour, invert sugar and invert syrup, the produce or manufacture of Australia, up to September 30, 1924, when it will Be admitted duty free Thomas Hector Conlon was before the Magistrate at Nelson on Monday on remand to answer an information of alleged indecent assault on a little girl. After hearing the police evidence, accused reserved his defence and was committed to tho Supreme Court for trial. Bail was allowed. The north-western side of a portion of Regent Street. Wellington, has been exempted by Order-in-Council from the provisions of section 117 of the Public Works Act, 1908, subject to the condition that no part of any building shall lie erected within 33ft. of the centre line of the street.