DOMINION NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 30 December 1926, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

BORROWING PROPOSALS NOT APPROVED. (BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) PALMERSTON N., Dec. 29. For some time past the Power Boards Association has been endeavodring to obtain legislative authority to allow one board to temporarily lend any surplus funds it may have to another board. The Minister of Finance has now informed Mr Nash, M.P., chairman, of the association, that it was not considered desirable to grant such authority, adding that the proposal would” possibly mean the granting or further powers to borrowing boards to borrow without the consent of ratepayers, and that difficulty would also be experienced in raising sufficient cash to meet the demand for repayment when the lending board required the money.

BURGLARIES AT WELLINGTON. - _li - • WELLINGTON, Dec. 30. Burglars, apparently amateurs, entered three adjacent business premises in Willis street on Tuesday night, but failed to secure anything' more valuable than a bag of old clothes. Drawers were ransacked, and apparently the intruders were looking more particularly for money, as they did not remove a number of small but valuable articles they discovered. PACKING OF FRUIT. WELLINGTON, Dec. 30. Fresh regulations are being gazetted shortly relating to the proper packing of fruit and vegetables, and to the, control of two grape vine diseases, a: fungus known as downy mildew and an insect bearing the title of phylloxera vastatrix. SCHOOL FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHERS. CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 30. Sunday School teachers from all parts of the Dominion are in residence at the Bishop Julius Hostel and the Cathedral Grammar School attending the summer school. About sixty attended the opening function land it is expected that one hundred will be present during the next few days. The school will continue till January 6. : j-V-A FIRE IN CHRISTCHURCH. CHRISTCHURCH. Dec. 30. A building in Oambridse Terrace, occupied by the Canterbury Iron and Hardware Co., was badly damaged by fire shortly' before I a.m. The stock also suffered- severely.