Dominion News

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 April 1950, Page 6

Dominion News

Buried Geld Theory The opinion that a bottle containing gold, recently found in the grounds of the Tasman Hotel, Port Nelson, and valued at £2OO, was hidden there by a former licensee, was expressed by a former Nelson resident now in Wellington. He lived near the Hotel for a number of years. He said that Mr Charles Williams, who held the licences between about 1912, and 1916, at different periods of the year went away to the Howard river, near Murchison, where he engaged in gold prospecting. While on one of those trips he either died suddendly or was drowned in the riyer. Not long after that his widow disposed of the licences.—(P.A) Public Service Wage Claims At last evening’s meeting of the Nelson section of the Public Service Association, which was the largest ever held here, the 170 members present unanimously passed a resolution that the Nelson section fully supported the Dominion executive’s decision to make further application for increases of salaries, and “viewed with concern the summary manner in which the Government Service Tribunal dealt with the recent application in spite of strong evidence brought in support of the association’s case.” Mr J. P. Lewin, Dominion president of the association, was unavoidably absent, but addresses were given by Mr J. T. Touhey, vice-president, and Mr H. Symons, secretary.—(P.A.) Bananas From Fiji

A new agreement has been made by the New Zealand Department of Marketing and the Fiji Banana Board, under which the f.o.b. price of Fiji bananas has been advanced 'to 14s 6d a case as from today. This will not result in any increase in the price of bananas in New Zealand. The Minister of Marketing (Mr K. J. Holyoake) said in Wellington yesterday that the increase was the result of the alteration in the exchange rate in relation to sterling. The new price represented an increase of about Is 3|d a case in Fiji currency, and was conditional on the maintenance of the recent improvement in quality and case weights. New Zealanders would therefore receive better bananas than in the past, especially as no small bananas were to be shipped in future—(P.A.)