LOCAL AND GENERAL

Evening Star, Issue 19584, 16 June 1927, Page 14

LOCAL AND GENERAL

At the Supreme Court sitting at Greymouth, before Mr Justice Adams, there were no criminal cases. A pair of white gloves was presented to His Honor, and he congratulated the district on its freedom from crime. Five minor civil cases were dealt with, and the sitting was concluded within two hours.

The annua! meeting of the New Zealand Pig Breeders’ Association resolved that the association, representing the purebred pig breeders of the dominion, strongly supports tho scheme advocated for applying the Paterson scheme to the export of pork and bacon from New Zealand, and approves of a board being established. The association urges the Government to give the necessary legislative power this session. '

At the Supremo Court, Gisborne, Thomas Brosnahan, a farmer, was found guilty of obtaining £793 from Messrs Dalgety and Co. by means of false stock returns. Sentence was deferred. Brosnahan’s son, Aloyaius George Brosnahan, pleaded not guilty to matin' 7 false returns of stock to Messrs Dalgety and Co., thereby obtaining £376 After hearing evidence for tho Crown, His Honor said the flvidenro was* not more than enough to create a suspicion against tne accused. Ho may have made the returns knowing the figures to be false, hut it may equally be explained that he relied on his father for the figures. Under His Honor’s direction the jury returned a verdict of not guilty, and the prisoner was discharged. The annual meeting of the Hereford Cattle Breeders’ Association was held yesterday at Palmerston North. ihe report mentioned that tho income was reduced owing to members giving up cattle breeding, and by reduced entries by others, it was decided to support the application to have the Royal Show held early in autumn. The following officers were elected:—President.°Mr J. M’Kenzie; treasurer, Mr H. J. Dagg; members of council— Messrs E. E. Short, W. K. Morton, and H. B. Stuckey. It was decided to ask the Board of Agriculture to permit breeders’ societies to prevent the export of bulls not of a representative species.

A hint that the position of Lincoln College will not bo adversely affected by tlm proposal to establish a national institution in the North Island was given bv the director of tho college (Mr R." E. Alexander) in addressing tho South Canterbury farmers visiting the college. While tho exact outcome of the negotiations in progress was still a confidential matter, said Mr Alexander. he was able to say that Lincoln Colleen would not be left out in the cold. ° Ho felt that there was room for another college in the country. Even 7 kind of condition could not be studied in one. Lincoln College _ had never made such a claim, but if it were not judicious to tench dairying in tho dry lands of Canterbury, it was certainly not advisable to teach arable fanning in Taranaki. He was satisfied that the arrangements made would satisfy the majority of Canterbury pcsple. A meeting of the Dairy Cattle Breeders’ Federation was hold at Palmerston North. A sub-committee brought down a scheme regarding a method of ultimately eliminating the scrub bull. The proposal wa~ on the South Australian Dairy Cattle Improvement Act, and recommended the registration of every bull each _ year, fees and penalties to be paid into a fund from which a subsidy could ne paid to the purchaser of a bull reaching n certain standard. In regard to the production of butter-fat, after some discussion, the question was held m abeyance ponding Mr W. M. singleton' (director of the dairy dinsMn) obtaining a legal opinion concerning the position Following the service in celebration of tho twenty-first anniversary of tho St Kilda Methodist Church, which was held on Sunday last, an anniversary social was held in the church schoolroom last evening. About 150 persons sat down to tea, which was _ served by the ladies of the congregation. Iho Rev. E. B. Harkness presided over the concert which followed, and in a brief introductory address, ho welcomed those present. Ho trusted, he said, that they would see many more such anniversaries. An enjoyable programme of musical and elocutionary items, arranged by Mr Frank Cawley, was rendered. The following gave items:Miss Forsyth (songs), Miss Rona Scott (recitations), Mr Jrvnio musical monologue), Miss Marshall (songs), Mr F. Cawley (piano solo), Master Childs (song), Hears Benton and Hughes (duet), and Miss aldren (song). The Rev. A. Hopper and the Rev. W. B. Scott delivered short addresses.