DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 December 1936, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.] DEATH IN COT. WANGANUI, December 18. Apparently endeavouring to climb out of his cot during the night, a boy aged 13 months, Stanley Nathan Siddells, whose parents live in Keith Street, was found dead this morning with his head stuck in the railings of his cot. The child was found by his sister. After evidence of identification by the, father, Robert Siddells, the inquest was adjourned. H.M.S. DUNEDIN. WELLINGTON, December 18. The Minister for Defence (Hon. F. Jones) announces that the following is the programme for H.M.S. Dunedin for-her passage to the United Kingdam to pay off and revert to the Royal Navy:— Leave Auckland' February 16; at Tahiti, February 22-24; at Nukuhiva, February 27; at Panama, March 12-15; at Jamaica, MarcU 17-20; at Bermuda, March 24-27; at Plymouth, April 6; arrive at Sheerness, April 7. H.M.S. Dunedin will be relieved by H.M.S. Leander, which will recommission in May, 1937, for service under the New Zealand Government, and will probably arrive in New Zealand waters in August, 1937. BARLEY PRICES INVERCARGILL, December 18. The opinion that in the fixation of barley prices recently announced the Government should not have set different prices for different districts, and that quality should have been the only factor taken into account, was expressed by to-day’s meeting of the Southland Provincial Executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union. The following resolution was carried: “This executive appreciates the Minister’s efforts to assist barley growers, but regrets that he did not fix the price according to quality and not districts. In the opinion of this executive there is no reason why different prices should rule in different districts. Growers in the Garton district find the price of 4/6 a bushel too low. Although no definite assurance was given, we are of the opinion that the Minister should have consulted growers before fixing prices lower in certain districts, than those asked; for the price asked (5/- a bushel) was, in growers’ opinion, the lowest price which would give them a reasonable return.”