DOMINION NEWS.

Grey River Argus, 27 March 1928, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS.

MINISTERS ON TOUR. ROTORUA, March 26. Thi« morning (the Ministers for Lands, (Hon. A. D. McLeod*), Public Works, (Hon. K. S. Williams), K. M. Graham, ((JQonlmissifqiicr of Crown Lands), accompanied by tha F. F. Hockep (member for Rotorua) visited the Atimuri Homestead Settlement, ' atiid examined ;the claims of the settlers for a scheme dovelopmnt, including roading, schooling, and daling wit the existing educational reserves. The Ministers were sympathetically inclined, and promised an investigation into the points raised. Tn the (the Ministerial Party visited the local farms, where work is being carried out m regressing. They a\so receded 'local dethey prosed to Te Puke on Kaiinma .drainajje matters, and liter to Waihi Swamp Works; proreceding thence do the Tauramga Railway opening on March AUCKLAND FIRE. AUCKLAND, March J>. Fire earlv this morning destroyed an North found flames leaping from a dmpress under the staircase. She hasten'd to waken the other inmates while her son got through a window to g 0 the alarm. Two women escaped from a front bedroom on the second storey >n night attire, lowering themselves down by a sheet, and falling several feet. One of them. Ethel Betty, had an angle ricked through the sheet breaking. Airs Kclsall was slightly burned on one ear, and her hair was slightly singed.