DOMINION NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 4 May 1927, Page 9

DOMINION NEWS.

FIRE AT MANUNUI

(BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) TAUMARANUI, May 4. A .shop at Manunui, used as a general store and occupied by Mrs. L. Ettersbank and owned by Mrs. E. Holm, was gutted by fire last night. Excellent work of the brigade saved the whole block from destruction. The contents of the shop were insured for £ISOO. Tte insurance on the building is not available.

INDIGNATION AT MEAT WORKS

MERGER

MASTERTON, May 4

Intense indignation has been expressed an Masterton over the meat works merger, as the capital of the Wairarapa company was subscribed on the distinct understanding that it was for the purpose of keeping the Waiiigawa works open in the .interests of the district, as well as the town.

COMPENSATION AWARDED

AUCKLAND, May 4. On a claim made by Hiranna Mutu, of Rotorua, against the Armstrong Whitworth Company, for compensation arising out of the death of her son, who was electrocuted on. February 26, while at Arapuni, the Arbitration Court gave judgment for £175 and costs.

A GENEROUS GIFT.

DUNEDIN, May 4

At the installation of Mr Taverner as Mayor, the retiring Mayor (Mr Taployj announced that an anonymous donor had 1 given £17,000 for an organ in, the new Town Hall which was now being erected. The organ was made for the Wembley Exhibition, where it accompanied the choir of 12,000 voices in a. hall with a, seating capacity of 120,000.

WHEAT GROWING INDUSTRY

WELLINGTON, May 4

Representatives of the wheat growing industry conferred with the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates) and the Minister of Customs (the Hon. W. Downie Stewart) to-day. They will now present their case to the Tariff Commission, after which they will again interview the Government. No statement was made for pub! ication.

AN ERROR CORRECTED

WHANGAREI, May 4

On bis arrival at Whangarei, Mr H. E. Holland' said be desired to correct an error in a Press message sent from Taumarunui, which made it appear that when speaking there he had advocated a. revenue producing tariff for the timber industry. His actual statement, when urging that the timber industry of the Dominion should be develorved and safeguarded, was that tariffs that provided' revenue could not be said' to be protective in the real sense, and to meet the present situation something more wa,s necessary than a; tariff that would produce revenue by letting in outside timbers which displaced the New Zealand product.