DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 May 1930, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[per press association.]

SUDDEN'DEATH.

GISBORNE, May 7.

Edwin Douglas Bilham, 61, was found dead in bed at Patutahi this morning, by his wife. Deceased had been suffering from heart trouble for some years, but had not been attended by a doctor in the last six months.

OPIUM SMOKING. GISBORNE, May 7.

At the Police Court, this morning Ming Lee, 55, who was found in a Chinese laundry on Sunday night smoking opium, was fined £3O for being in possession of opium in a form suitable for smoking.

SHOPS AND OFFICES ACT. WELLINGTON, May 7. _ The Committee set up to investigate the operations of the Shops and Offices Act, commenced the hearing of evidence at Wellington yesterday, when representatives of several local commercial firms were heard. Further evidence will be heard to-day and to-morrow. The Committee ■will then proceed to Dunedin. The balance of Wellington evidence will be taken after the committee has heard that in other centres.

WOMEN’S MANIA.

DUNEDIN, May 7

Two women, said to live in the country, were found last evening, in the Town Belt near Mornington, in an exhausted condition.

It is understood that they are under the influence of some form of religious mania, and during the past 10 days have had practically no food. They were adniited to the hospital suffering from exhaustion and exposure, but their condition is not bad.

DEER MENACE.

CHRISTCHURCH, May 7

A conference convened by the Government to consider the menace caused by the increase of deer herds, opened this morning. Mr. P. A. de la Perelle, presiding, said ho considered that the first step to deal with the situation was to remove absolutely protection on all deer and chamois, though ho would be quite agreeable to protection being reimposed for a short shooting season under license to give the Acclimatisation Societies an opportunity of obtaining revenue for further deer destruction.

(Proceeding).

WELLINGTON’S MILK SUPPLY. WELLINGTON, May 6.

The Chairman of the Milk Committee, Councillor W. H. Bennett, at the meeting of the City Council, said that he desired to congratulate the Council and the Department on the continued progress and financial stability of their milk undertaking. The balance sheet showed a very healthy state of finance. The sales were still increasing, and the losses by way of bad debts were small, while the increased bottle breakages were satisfactorily accounted for. There was a profit for the year of £9052. This was very encouraging. “Looking at our undertaking from every standpoint,” said Councillor Bennett, “there is nothing but satisfaction to be expressed.”

OBSTETRICAL SOCIETY STRATFORD, May 5.

Dr. Doris Gordon, secretary of the Obstetrical Society, said to-day that arrangements had been completed for handing over the obstetrical endowment money to Sir Thomas Sidey, Chancellor of the University of Otago, at a gathering to be held in Wellington on May 21. The executives operating in the four centres wers busy gathering in money from their district committees, and would be forwarding it to the Obstetrical Society in the course of a few days. Final arrangements of the provincial district amounts and of the endowment appeal as a whole would be made at the Wellington gathering.

DAIRYMEN’S MERGER. DARGAVILLE, May 7.

At a very largely attended meeting of dairy factory suppliers, last evening, to hear an address by Mr G. D. MacFarlane, of the New Zealand Producers’ Co-operative Marketing Association, on the dairy marketing problem, the following resolution was unanimously carried: —That in view of the necessity of the dairy farmers of New Zealand, adopting a scheme of orderly co-sjcrativc marketing, this meeting urges the New Zealand Producers’ Co-operative Marketing Association, and Amalgamated Dairies, as the only two co-operative marketing companies in New Zealand of dairy produce, to combine efforts to achieve this desirable object, ’ and as the suppliers of the Northern Wairoa Dairy Company will be asked to pass an opinion at the annual meeting as to the necessity of joining such scheme, it will greatly help them in the deliberation, if amalgamation or other harmonious agreement, can be arrived at by these two companies, before that date.