DOMINION NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 27 January 1927, Page 9

DOMINION NEWS.

INVERCARGILL LOAN PROPOSAL. (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.; - INVERCARGILL. Jan. 27. Loan proposals totalling £150,000 were submitted to the ratepayer:,t. Two were carried; one for roads totalling £60,000, and the other for a, pilot station £ISOO. The following were rejected : Electricity £25,000, library £20,000, harbour £16,000, Oreti bridge £II,OOO, town hall extension £6OOO. Only about one-fourtli of the ratepayers voted.

SANITARY INSPECTORS CONFER, AUCKLAND, Jan. 27.! The New Zealand satitary inspectors’ conference resolved to write the New Zealand branch of the Sanitary Institute in regard to the opening of the doors of the Sanatory Inspectors’ Association to other branches of health workers. A committee was appointed to submit a concrete scheme to the 1928 conference, which will be held at Napier. It was resolved to ask the DirectorGeneral of Health to set up an examination board for the training and education of sanitary inspectors on the lines of the conjoint English examination board. BODY RECOVERED. PAHIATUA, Jan. 27. Early this morning Constable Swan and .several other persons proceeded to Nikau and recovered the body ol William Thommas Boyd, 53 years of age, a stock agent, who has been missing for a fortnight. The body was practically devoid of clothing. It was found seven or eight miles below the scene of the car smash at Marima. The deceased was a steward of the Pahiatua Racing Club, and a member of the Pahiatua A. and P. Association. He leaves a widow, and eight children. An. inquest formally opened this morning for the purpose of identification. TRAIN RUNS INTO SHEEP.

TE AWAMUTU, Jan. 27. As the main trunk express train was approaching Te Awamutu station last night, the engine ran into a mob of sheep that had escaped from a yard’at the station when being brought out of trucks. Seventeen ewes, the property of a Rotorangi farmer, were killed outright or were damaged badly, necessitating their destruction.' 1 The train was not damaged and resumed its journey southwards, only a few minutes behind scheduled time. HOMESTEAD DESTROYED BY FIRE. TE AWAMUTU, Jan. 27. A fire at one o’clock yesterday morning completely' destroyed the homestead of Thomas Ferguson, a farmer of Te Mawhai. The occupants escaped with only their night attire. The insurances on the house were £7OO and on the furniture and piano £3OO.