DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 December 1937, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

r [PEE PBEBB ASSOCIATION.] MARLBOROUGH RAIN. BLENHEIM, December 9. The whole Marlborough district has received a soaking from a warm, steady rain. The rain will be of considerable value to the farming industry, but it will not mean such relief to a number of farmers, whose crops have suffered damage from the earlier dry weather.

KINDERGARTEN GRANTS WELLINGTON, December 9.

Under regulations issued with the Gazette, kindergarten grants are to be computed on the average roll number instead of the average attendance. This will result in slightly increased grants, for which provision was made in the Estimates.

TRAINING COLLEGE ENTRANCE WELLINGTON, December 9.

Because of the shortage of applicants for training colleges, the age for eligibility has been reduced from 17 at December 31 in the year before admission to 17 on February 28 of the year of admission. A regulation to this effect arid also providing for the re-institution of the system of specialised training, whereby training college students remain ror a third year and are to receive an increased allowance of £lO a year, is issued with the Gazette.

CRUSHED BY LOG

WHANGAREI, December 10.

A fatal accident occurred in the bush at Mata, yesterday when B. How ard, 51, married, with! a grown up family, was crushed by a log. Deceased, ‘with another man, .was working on the 'fide of a hill preparing a large kauri log for hauling when the log suddenly started to move. Deceased slipped in! attempting to escape, the log passing over his head, causing instantaneous death. The inquest will be opened, this afternoon, by Mr. G. H. Morrish, coroner.

NEW ROAD

WELLINGTON, December 9.

The Governor-General (Lord Galway), accompanied by the Minister for Public Works (th& Hon. R. Semple). and the. Engineer-in-Chief of the Public Works Department (Mr. J. Wood) formed the first motoring party to traverse partly the new Paeka-kariki-Plimmerton level highway. Mr. Semple said that it was estimated that the new, almost straight highwav would eliminate 160 dangerous bends, 500 ft of climb, four miles and a-half in distance, and probably s(tve motorists £22,0.00 a year in petrol. The new road would be in use, he said, in from 18 months to two years.

FRUIT MARKETS. AUCKLAND, December 10. Statements that great hardship would be imposed on fruit and produce growers throughout New Zealand, if produce markets were required to be closed on Saturdays, were made by the employers’ witnesses, in the Second Arbitration Court to-day, during the hearing of the application of the storemen and packers for a Dominion award. Mr. Justice Hunter presided, with him being Messrs Anderson and Croskery. Robert Johnston said it was imperative at this time of the year that they should be able to market their produce all day and every day.