DOMINION NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 March 1925, Page 7

DOMINION NEWS.

POWER FROM MANGAHAO

tBT TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION. WELLINGTON, March 27. Soon after eleven o’clock yesterday morning, the .first of the power for the Wellington City from the Government hydro electric works' at Mangahao came over the cables arid was utilised) to provide direct, current deriiands for other than tramways. On Sunday, the whole of the city [pad will be taken by Mangahao. 'The Mayor stated yesterday that for the first financial year; the city would pay the Government £40,000 for the power. This sum would be gradually increased each year, to eventually £65,000 in 1932, at which figure it would continue during the term of the contract. The amount of the current sup. plied would be up to the maximum, eleven thousand kilowatts, but for the present, the city proposed to take only live thousand, 'making up the balance of the load from other places.

AVIATION REFRESHER, COURSE. CHRISTCHURCH, March 27, . The ..refresher course at Wigram Aerodrome concluded to-day, some forty, riien having passed through. Eight new ’planes, including six Avfos, are expected from England shortly.

PA'inIEES AND POLITICS.

GISBORNE, March 27. Addressing a. gathering of farmers at WairoiV.’ the Hon. Mi' A. D. McLeod said, that lie had been a_ mem he r of the Farmers’ Union for thirty years. In the past the union had steered dear of politics, but be regretted very, much that in recent years the; political element had bec-n introduced in the Auckland district.. Nothing would kill the ' union more quickly or more surely than the introduction of party politics. Farthers must take cafe that they do not become chopping blocks between the respective unions of labour and capital . FINES AT GTS BORNE. GISBORNE, March 27. . At the Magistrate’s . Court, Fergris Gale Dunlop, a solicitor, was fined £SO for failure to have his trust account audited. G. H. Lysnar, for failure to make income tax returns for two years, was fined £l.O on each of two charges. . REMANDED TO WANGANUI. ASHBURTON, March 27. William James A Too re, who was arrested on his honyemoon, was remanded to appear at Wanganui on Monday.