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Evening Star, Issue 18258, 24 April 1923, Page 6

There will bo no publication of tho ‘Evening f?tar ’ to-morrow—Anzac Day. Reports of a very disquieting kind aro now current in clubland concerning the Prime Minister’s health (writes our London correspondent, March 1). One of the most distinguished members of tho present House of Commons tells me that Mr Bonar Law’s retirement is now freely talked of. He does not want to go, bub" he may ho compelled to do so under imperative medical orders. To all outward appearances the Prime Minister looks as well as ever, but to his personal friends ho makes no secret of tho fact that the old trouble of heart weakness is once more assorting itself.

At tbo annual meeting of tho Dunedin Returned Soldiers’ Association last night Mr J. J. Clark gave an address on the aims and policy of tile War Funds Council. After dealing with the constitution of tho council, Mr Clark pointed out that the funds in tho hands of tho council at January 31 of this year amounted to £145,975. which, though well invested, was in a sufficiently liquid state to permit of all demands on the resources being met without delay. Tho amount comprised private donations, transfers from societies which had completed their original functions, legacies and bequests, and special trusts. The council also administered the blind soldiers’ fund, mercantile marine fund, Maori soldiers and dependents’ fund, soldiers’ widows and orphans’ fund, and a property account covering hutments and buildings erected from money raised by tho Y.M.C.A. patriotic fund. Mr Clark pointed out that though there was no limit to assistance to soldiers and dependents if their cases rvoro based on necessity, patriotic moneys could not be legally expended on any object outside thoso for which they were specifically raised. Mr Clark was heartily applauded for his address, and, on tho motion of Mr J. B. Cnllan, he was accorded a hearty vote of thanks "for his businesslike statement on a very difficult subject.” It was decided at a meeting of the Finance Committee of tho projected New Zealand Exhibition last evening to recommend to the full that the scope of tho exhibition be Imperial. The voting was very close—eight to six—and it was agreed that the minority should not bo bound by tbo decision arrived at, but should retain full porver to advocate at tho public mooting to be called that tho exhibition be international. A further recommendation was passed that the name of tho exhibition bo tho New Zealand and South Sens Exhibition (Dunedin), 1925-25. Messrs Fla veil, G. L. Dcnniston, and James Evans were added to tho Finance Committee.

Tho Citizens’ League “ ticket,” comprising tho present councillors who are available for re-election, and Messrs F. W. Mitchell, 11. Halliday, J. J. Clark, P. L. Ritchie, will address the ratepayers at a final- meting in tho Burns Hall to-night. Tho mayor, Mr ,T. S. Douglas (who is also a league candidate for tho council) will preside.

There is a suggestion that in some parts of the North Island Labor circles are concerned' at the higher values to which some of tho principal commodities _ on tho grocery and provision list are going. The gradual increase in the price of such things as sngo, sugar, tapioca, tea, butter, Hour, and other lines has at last mado tho total increase over all a matter for fairly-serious consideration in some families. _ Labor men in Christchurch aro watching tho position. It was stated to-day that, if any tendency to exploit was discovered, representations would be mad’o to endeavor to keep prices within reason. —Christchurch correspondent. Splendid tracking on tho part of a black tracker, says a police report from Western Queensland, resulted in tho discovery of a man named Bert Jones, who had been lost in the bush for three days. Jones left Youlba for Jackson on April 2, carrying a swag, which was subsequently picked up on tho railway lino six miles from Yeulba. He was tracked to the spot eighty miles from Yeulba, and later found in prickly pear in _ a semiconscious and exhausted condition.

A deor-stalking party which has just returned from tho Wairarapa district secured throe excellent heads—one sixteen, ono fifteen, and ono twelve-pointer. Them were plenty of door in tho district, but tho principal member of tho party is of opinion that they should be subjected to considerable culling, and then new blood imported. In three years’ time they would then provide some of tho best herds in the dominion.

While dismantling the dredging pipes at the wharf basin at Whangarci, harbor board employees found a tuatara lizard. It was alive", but not fully grown. Tho harbor engineer, Mr W. Fraser, proposes to forward it to the Auckland Zoo, subject to the approval of tho Minister concerned.

“ New Plymouth headed the list of the nineteen leading hospitals in New Zealand for the percentage of fees during the year ended March 31, 1922, said a member of the Finance Committee at a recent meeting of the Taranaki Hospital Board. The average number of occupied beds in the hospital was ninetyfour and the fees collected totalled £7,237, giving a percentage of 77.3. “It is very gratifying to soo the money portion so well looked after,” said the member, “ especially as the percentage of foes collected by other hospital boards goes as low as 25.”- ” You can t beat the butterfat," remarked another member.

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