DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 December 1929, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

(Per Press Association.) WOMAN CYCLIST KILLED. TAUMARUNUI, December 6. Mrs Rita Gannon was killed instantaneously about, seven o’clock this evening. She was riding a bicycle in the direction of Matapuna, on the mam road, and was struck by a car coming in the opposite direction, driven by Sydney Gordon Stewart of Te Awamutu The woman received injuries to her head and a broken leg.

ROYAL SHOW. INVERCARGILL, December 6. Everything points to the 1929 Royal Show, which will be officially opened by the Governor General at the Southland A. and P. Associations grounds on Tuesday, being signally The T entries will total over 2200, and, although not quite so numerous as at the Christchurch. Royal Show, compaie more than favourably with the Roya- 1 Shows at other centres, and are better balanced than at Christchurch. It is expected to be one of the finest, comprehensive displays of cattle, sheep and horses ever seen in the Dominion. The grounds are in splendid order, and most complete arrangements have been made to care for the stock. Visitors are arriving at Invercargill in large numbers, but there is still plenty of accommodation available. The official opening and the general review of the Show will be broadcast on Tuesday, and there will be further broadcasting on Wednesday and Thuisday.

DAIRYING MERGER. HASTINGS, December 7. An important transaction, relating to the dairying industry in Central Hawke’s Bay, has just been completed, the Heretaunga Co-operative Dairy Coy., with headquarters at Hastings, having purchased the property, plant and goodwill of the Waipukurau Cooperative Dairy Coy., whose headquarters were at Waipukurau. Dairying is now making such rapid progress on the rich land around Hastings, that the Heretaunga Co. were faced with the necessity for doubling the plant capacity within the next year or two. The establishment of a branch factory in their southern territory will reduce overhead expenses and consolidate the districts’ dairying industry under progressive organisation, which has reached a high place for the quality of products and the price paid to the suppliers.