DOMINION NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 29 October 1925, Page 10

DOMINION NEWS.

ROAD SUBSIDY QUESTION. (by TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, Oct. 28. Local bodies were expecting to receive £23,000 subsidy from the Mam Higlnvays Board for paving roads near Wellington, but the Crown solicitor has raised doubts as to whether, on. account of technicalities, the subsidy can be claimed, and lie has suggested that the parties had better go to the Supreme Court for a declaratory judgment. Already Wellington has had to pave seven miles of the Uutt Load without a subsidy, although a similar road out of Auckland receives one. ONE EFFECT OF BAD WEATHER. WELLINGTON, Oct. 29. _ An experienced sheep farmer estimates that the wet and backward season will cause a shortage of 21bs per fleece. He reckons that the North Island will bo 60,000 bales short and the South 40,000.

DRASTIC POSTAL RULES. WELLINGTON, Oct. 29. . The new postal regulations agreed to at'' the last convention contain some

stringent rules re letters unpaid, or containing dutiable articles. The local Chamber of Commerce ,is urging the Postal Department to endeavour to obtain some modification, as it considers the rules too drastic, anci that they should be released, particularly as between England and the Dominions.