DOMINION NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 3 May 1928, Page 7

DOMINION NEWS.

♦ WELLINGTON’S CARILLON. | lIY TBT.EGRAPD-VRKBB ASSOCIATION ] WELLINGTON. May 2. A letter from the Rt Hon. J. G. Coates to the Mayor (Mr. Troup) assures him of a Government grant of £T3,COf) for the erection of a campanile on a Mount Cook site; to house the Wellington carillon. UNEMPLOYMENT IN AUCKLAND. AUCKLAND, May 2. Replying to Labour members of Parliament, the Rt. Hon. J. G._ Coates wired that the Government since the middle of February had placed 435 men on relief works in the Auckland district, and arrangements were being made to find work to absorb an additional four hundred men as soon as possible. When the contractors commence operations in connection with the new railway station, the Prime Minister adds, the position should be eonsiderP.RUIT EXPORT PROM OTAGO DUNEDIN, May 2. The steamer Port Adelaide will load 26,500 eases of apples and pears for England, this being a record shipment fioni Otago in one vessel. The Somerset will load 0000 eases. MINES IDLE. GREYMOUTH, May 2. All coast mines were idle to-c Lay as a ‘ * protest ’ ’ against the prosecution of the Millerton miners for an alleged breach of the award. The mines were also idle. yesterday in the celebration of May Day.

STAKES RAISED. CHRISTCHURCH, May 2. The stakes for the New Zealand Cup have been raised by the Canterbury Jockey. Club from £1750 to £2OOO.