DOMINION NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 29 July 1925, Page 9

DOMINION NEWS.

ELOCUTION ARY COMPETITIONS

(by TELEGRAPH. PRESS ASSOCIATION. 1 OTAKI, July 29. The elocutionary competitions held last night were highly successful. Miss Phyllis Liddel won Madame Josephine Ottlee’s scholarship to the value of twenty guineas. Miss Stella Gawler was second, and Miss Molly Wilmott third.

AID FOR FARMERS

LEVIN, July 29

The Chamber of Commerce, at its annual meeting, passed a resolution urging the Government, in the interests of primary production, to fully investigate the situation arising from the high cost of artificial manures. It also recommended a special policy of cheapening and aiding in the financing of farmers by utilising machinery of the Department of Agriculture and the State Advances Office.

The resolutions followed representations made by the Manakau Farmers’ Union. The speaker, Mr. L. H. Atkins, declared that it was slow suicide to continue farming under present methods, by which the land was being starved for fertilisers, the high cost of which prevented farmers from using adequate quantities. He suggested that remedies were free carriage by land, or sea subsidies, and crushing by cheap labour in the islands.

FATAL MOTOR. ACCIDENT. WAIPUKURAU, July 29. Hugh Charles Connor, aged 18, employed by a Uatiima settler, was killed in a motor-car accident yesterday afternoon. He went out in a catalone and was picked up dead soon "afterwards, his body being found over a twenty foot bank. No one saw the accident. Deceased's widowed mother lives at Wanganui, whence the body will be taken for burial.

EUCHRE PARTIES, CHRISTCHURCH, July 29. The Magistrate dismissed the information against Alexander James Blackburn and Reginald Stillwell, of keeping a common gaming-house by using the Caledonian Hall for euchre parties, at Avliich big prizes were given. The Magistrate held that euchre as played there was a mixed game of chance and skill.