DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 January 1939, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

| PRECIS ABHOCIATION. | LIQUOR SALE. ASH BURTON. January 2b. Henry George Berry, agent tor an outside hotel, was lined £3O, in tiefault. six weeks’ gaol, being allowed a month t.o pay, for tin.' illegal salt 1 of liquor. The police gave evidence that liquor was delivered 55 minutes alter ordering, though no supplies had been received in Lite meantime. Two men found (irinking in a. back room wi re lined £' 1. GAMING HOI ISE. DUNEDIN, Ja it nary 1.9. As the result of a raid by a party of detectives, this afternoon, upon premises suspected of being used as a common gaming house, three men wee brought before Mr. J. R. Bartholomew, S.M., in the City Police Court, later in the day. Robert, David Donaldson was charged with carrying on the business of a bookmaker, and John Charles Tooman and Ferguson Nicol were ea .'h charged with assisting in the management of a common gaming house.

All pleaded guilty to the charges, and were remanded until January 25 for sentence. Donaldson was allowed bail in the sum of £2OO, the bail for the other accused being fixed at. £5O each. MISSING WOMAN. CHRISTCHURCH, January 39. The police search at Cla.verley for Mrs. Harriet Jane Patience, who Ims been missing from her home there since October 1. will be discontinued. Superintendent. A. Cameron said, today, however, that inquiries would he continued. The search has covered a. wide area of land and water. As well as digging on the beach, the police have combed the back country near the settlement, and have also dragged swamps and streams. Their activities have extended as far its 20 miles from Claverley.

Both police officers and Public. Works Department men were engaged in. the search during the earlier stages, but the number of men has been reduced as the work was narrowed. Six o', the police officers were withdrawn about three weeks ago. and'another eight last week.

FHED BARLEY IMPORTS BLENHEIM. January 20

Strong objection to the importation of Australian feed barley, when the indications are that ample grain of this grade will be, available from local crops, was expressed at a meeting of the Blenheim Farmers’ Union. It was claimed by members that the Government gave an assurance that, before it authorised the importation of barley, it would ascertain what New Zealand supplies would be available. So far as they were aware, this inquiry had not been made in Marlborough, where the partial failure of the crops, due to the erratic season, resulted in about half the yield being only second grade, lit for feed and not for malt. Opinion in the grain trade, it was stated, was that the Marlborough growers would have to accept as low as 2/6 per bushel, in order to compete against Australian barley, and that the price would not pay even labour costs.

It was decided to ask the Minister of Industries and Commerce why he did not ascertain the quantity of feed barley likely to be available in Marlborough. before permitting importation.