GENERAL TELEGRAMS.
ARBITRATION COURT. {by TELEGRAPH —PEESB ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 1. The Arbitration Court members returned from New Plymouth at the end of the week. They leave -by the midday express to-morrow for Auckland. They will be away for about a fortnight, when they go to Palmerston North, Napier, and Gisborne, returning to Wellington in November. There are about 15 disputes and a dozen compensation cases for heaving in Auckland. LAND I SETTLEMENT. Sept. 2. The Crown purchased 29,560 acres of native land last year, and 94 blocks, totalling 44,786 acres, have been declared Crown land and made available ior disposal. The total area of native land purchased by the Government since 1910 is 1,328,283 acres at a cost of £3,337,345. MILD WINTER. WELLINGTON. Sept. 2. Winter in Wellington this year began and ended with an outburst of bad weather. The rain early, last month brought the rainfall for August nearly to the average, but before that it was scarcely half the amount. The weather is now brilliant soring. The year 1909 was a remarkably mild winter, 'but could not be compared with that just past
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 2 September 1924, Page 5
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186GENERAL TELEGRAMS. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 2 September 1924, Page 5
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