DOMINION NEWS

Grey River Argus, 7 November 1942, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS

POTATO MARKETING. P.A. WELLINGTON, Nov. 6.> Ak a result of exoerience, a defined grading standard for new potatoes has now been agreed upon bv the interests concerned. The necessary provision in this connection has been embodied, in a fresh price order issued bv the Price Tribunal, in lieu of the previous order concerning new potatoes. The new order also makes provision for the time lag between the dates of the downward movement in grocers’ prices as defined and the corresponding dates of the downward movement in prices to the consumer as follows: Auckland Provincial District, three days. Remainder of the North Island, six days. South Island (including the Nelson Provincial District), three days.

’ MAN FALLS FROM TRAIN. P.A. AUCKLAND, November 5. • Having fallen off the inward-bound Rotorua express. Mr Arthur Thomas Maulder. married, aged 50, a meat exporter, of Mount Albert, was found lying beside the railway line at Orakei station. He was suffering from a fractured skull and shock. Maulder was found near the track bv a railway employee. His condition is fairly serious. WOMAN DROWNED P.A. CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 5. ‘ Believed to have been caused by drowning, the death occurred at Akaroa to-day of Miss Hilda Norris, of Christchurch. Her body was found on the beach in the morning. a DEATH FROM BURNS. P.A. WELLINGTON, November 5. Harold Rossiter Elworth, married, a carpenter living at Bunnythorpe, suffered severe burns, shock, and abrasions when he touched an electric line while working at- the Mangahao power-house near Shannon on Tuesday. He died in hospital to-day. SOLDIERS CHARGED. P.A. NEW PLYMOUTH, Nov. 5. “Undisciplined louts are no more use in the Army than in civil hie, said Mr Justice Johnston in the supreme Court this morning, when sentencing three young soldiers on a series of charges of breaking andentering- and theft, and attempting breaking and entering, to which they pleaded guilty in the Magistiates Court last week. The men were James Ernest Yard, Owen Mervyn Howse. and Stanley Thomas Part. The v were admitted to probation for 12 months, conditional on paying £lO each towards the cost of the prosecution and restitution of stolen or damaged goods, and thev are to be returned to the Armv detention camp from which they escaped.