DOMINION NEWS

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 17 September 1925, Page 9

DOMINION NEWS

WEATHER IN CANTERBURY. (BY TELEGRAPH. PRESS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 17. Yesterday and to-day brought a marked improvement in the weather throughout Canterbury, and farmers generally are more hopeful m regard to wheat sowings. LYTTELTON TUNNEL. CHRISTCHURCH. Sept. 17. Members of the Canterbury Progress League arid tlie Industrial Association have decided to bring further pressure on the Government for duplication and electrification (of the Lyttelton tunnel. SINGLE WOMAN’S DEATH. AUCKLAND, Sept. 17. Eleanor Kinselfa, a single woman, aged about forty-five, was found dead this morning w'ith her throat cut at her home. WELLINGTON TRAINING COLLEGE WELLINGTON, Sept. 17. Complaints have been made to the Education Board of overcrowding in the Training College. The director reported that there was only accommodation for 150 students, but 350 were crowded into it. It was proposed by the Department to reduce the number £o 290, but even then a large number of extra rooms would bo required. The chairman said that the accommodation was less than half that at Auckland, and the Board, decided to protest strongly to the Department against the congestion forced on the college. PRICE OF FOAVL WHEAT. , WELLINGTON, Sept. 17. Poultry farmers are up in arms against the high price of wheat, which it is declared will make it impossible to carry on. It is alleged that they have to pay 9s 6d per bushel, which is higher than for milling purposes, ana that hundreds of farmers have been driven out of the business. They claim that less wheat is grown each vear, and more scope is given to speculators. The New Zealand Association has taken up the .matter with the Government.

SOUTH ISLAND MAIN TRUNK

WELLINGTON, Sept. 17

During his reply to a deputation today, Mr Coates mentioned that in connection with the representations recently made for the completion of the South Island Main Trunk railway, that it is one hundred miles more by sea and train via Picton to Christchurch than by sea to Lyttelton. A first-class passage without sleeping accommodation would cost 17s Id more than the present ferry fares, and goods would run into £2 per to.n. FIRE IN SHIP’S BUNKERS. AUCKLAND, Sept. 17. The steamer Kosmo, which arrived this morning, when 1500 miles from Auckland had an outbreak of fire at the after end of the bunkers. . . It found its way through to the shelter deck i n No. 4 hold, containing general cargo. The deck plates were heated and smoke was issuing from the ventilators when the discovery was made at four o’clock in the afternoon. By nightfall the flames were suppressed and all danger was past. A DOG ILLTREATED. BLENHEIM, Sep. 17. On a charge of cruelly illtreating a dog at Woodbank Station, the manager (Thomas Charters) was fined £lO and ordered to pay £ll 2s 6d costs.