NEWS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 113, 6 February 1935, Page 11

NEWS IN BRIEF

Relief For Farmers “It was never intended that the Agricultural Act should provide immediate financial relief for farmers,” said the Hon. C. E. Macmillan, Minister of Agriculture, in an address at Raglan. The object of the Act was to ensure that New Zealand should not. slip back in the world’s markets. Immediate financial relief could, best be given by relief from tlie burden of interest, which constituted, in most cases, over a third of the total farming costs. Death on Wharf. That death was due to heart failure was the finding of the coroner, Mr. E. Gilbertson, J.P., at an inquest yesterday on Charles Dobbie, who dropped dead on the wharf on Sunday morning after arriving at 'Wellington by the Rangatira. Mr. Dobbie. who was married, resided at 129 Aro Street. Road Guides for Ducal Party. Forty road guides were supplied to the Duke of Gloucester’s party by the Automobile Association (Wellington). At a meeting of the executive on Monday the secretary read a letter thanking the association, on behalf of the Duke, for the presentation of a specially bound guide. Friendly Firemen.

Having obtained a permit from the central fire station yesterday to burn rubbish, a Wellington resident went outside .and started his motor-cycle, which promptly caught fire. Firemen were quickly on hand with an extinguisher, and tiie flames were quelled before any serious damage was done.

Tramways Recreation Club. At the annual meeting of the Wellington Tramway Employees’ Recreation Club the following officers were elected :—Patron, Mr. H. Leah ; president, Mr. A. G. Burns; vice-president, Mr. A. March;' secretary. Mr. F. F. Quinn; assistant secretary, Mr. S. A. Marryatt; committee, Messrs. J. Fyfe, G. Gee, J. Groshinski, T. Hepburn, W. Hitchin, T. Jackson, A. 11. Mclnnes, E. Miller, E. IL Robinson, and L. Urry. Wanganui Motor Rally.

The Automobile Association (Wellington) lias decided to assist motorists going to the rally at Wanganui this month with Its patrols and in starting competitors, but not to offer a prize for the most successful member of the club, as the organisers of the rally had. suggested. Mr. E. Palliser said that it was a reliability trial in which the trade only was concerned, and the chairman, Mr. E. A. Batt, considered it would be a farce. The private motorist was not going to travel hundreds of miles for the prize offered. It was more a trade show and not an association affair.