DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 June 1937, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[per press association.)

KING GEORGE FUND. INVERCARGILL, June 7

The statement made by the Mayor of Dunedin (Rev. E. T. Cox) (hat the £7718 collected for the King George V National Memorial Fund included £5662 in Dunedin and £2086 in the rest of Otago and Southland, does not set out the position correctly for Invercargill, as more than £2060 had up to last week been collected in the city alone. Further contributions today brought the. Invercargill total to more than £2lOO.

PUBLIC SERVICE APPEAL BOARD WELLINGTON. June 7.

Messrs A. S. Houston, of the Department of Agriculture. Wellington, and A. E. Reynolds, of the Justice Department, Wellington, have been elected to represent the public service on the Public Service Appeal Board. The voting resulted: — A. S. Houston ■’» ,r, 2o A. E. Reynolds 3234 ft. T. Bailev J. M. O’Reilly 841 A. E. Crimp • • ■ r, 4J l Informal : ’’S FISHERIES SURVEY AUCKLAND, June 8. Mr. J. J. Enwright, manager of Sandfords, Ltd., who arrived to-day by the Maunganui, from Sydney,*, said that valuable aerial surveys of the coast were being carried out by the Australian Government. The Dominion could well copy them. The surveys showed the movements of surface fish, and where foul bottoms existed. He was assured that Australian trawlers were unlikely to visit the Dominion in future. Sydney wholesale merchants were using the high price of fish here to keep up the price there.

DAIRY FACTORY PRICES WHANGAREI, June 8.

The first, provisional figures released in New Zealand, showing the operation under the guaranteed price, are those of the Hikurangi Co-opera-tive Dairy Company, Ltd., which are subject to audit. The average all-grade payment per lb. for butterfat at the farm gate is approximately 13Jd, compared to the payout of 12.266 d last season. The total charges, including repairs and depreciation at the farm gate f.0.b., are 1.908 d, a surprisingly small increase on last year’s costs of 1.841(1. The output was 2,122 tons, compared with 193.9 tons. The factory wages were £3867. an increase of £371.-

CARPENTERS’ AWARD.

WELLINGTON, June 8

Wages, hours and conditions of employment for carpenters and. joiners throughout the Dominion were considered in the Conciliation Council today. The men’s claim in the main is for a five-d'ay week of 40 hours, eight daily, between eight and five. The employers want eight hours at any time between 7.30 and five. The men ask £6 a week and the employers offer 2/6J per hour. The men ask 10/per week extra for foremen or leading hands. The employers offer a shilling a day. The men ask 35/- country .allowance where the employer is linkable to provide suitable board. The employers offer 5/2 a day for six days of the week. Little progress was made by the lunch interval. ,

AFFORESTATION WELLINGTON. June 7

Details of a. large afforestation project on 20,000 acres of Crown land near Te Puke, in the Baj r of Plenty district, were announced by the Minister for Lands and Commissioner of State Forests (Hon. F. Langstone) to--1 day. The Minister said that the Slate Forest Service had in sight a further 12,000 acres, making a. total area, of 32.000 acres to be worked as a single forest unit. Mr. Langstone said that the Pongakawa tobacco settlement in Pongakawa Valley would be continued as a Government tobacco plantation, and in conjunction with it a forest nursery would be formed in the valley, where from 3,000.000 to 5,000,000 trees would be raised annually for the next six years at least. These trees would be used to plant an area of slightly more than 20,000 acres of Crown land now lying vacant between tbe Pongakawa and Herepuru streams. '.I he Minister added that the scheme was the first attempt in pumice country to associate large scale forestry with the more intensive forms of agriculture.