DOMINION NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 25 July 1929, Page 7

DOMINION NEWS.

ARBITRATION COURT CLAIM. 1, xiy reltigrajjli —Press Association. > WELLINGTON, July 25. Fred Taylor, a labourer, in the Arbitration Court is claiming for tlie amount of £B3 10s 5d from the Wellington Harbour Board in respect to an injury received to -his leg in April a year ago, which resulted in or aggravated a hernia. In cross-examination the plaintiff admitted that he had been operated on some years ago for hernia. The case is proceeding. ALLEGED INCENDIARISM. CHRISTCHURCH, July 25. An attempt was made on Tuesday night by an incendiavist to set alight a house- occupied by Eric Batty in "Worcester Street, but the flames from petrol-soaked sacks did not spread. A week ago Batty’s shop was gutted, presumably the work of an ineendiarist. LOYALTY TO FRUIT CONTROL BOARD. HASTINGS, July 25. At a meeting of the Hawke’s Bay Fruitgrowers’ Association last night, members expressed them.selves in indignant terms regarding the press propaganda of the 1928 committee, and the following motion was unanimously adopted: “That- members of, the Hawke’s Bair Fruitgrowers’ As-| sociation view with the gravest displeasure the attempts of the 1928 committee to undermine the operations of the- New Zealand Fruit Export Control Board by misleading imicndoes and half-truths. By their unanimity at the recent Dominion conference the growers throughout the length and breadth of New Zealand expreesed with no uncertain- voice the determination to stand behind the board in its policy of directing the marketing of New Zealand export fruit. The Hawke’s Bay growers again desire to express their loyalty to the board and their determination to do all in their power to support it.”

HEAVY RAIN AT DUNEDIN. DUNEDIN. July 25. Heavy rain fell in the Dunedin district throughout the night,. 1.310 inches being registered- in 12 hours. The Leith stream at 110.011 was vising and was Ift from the tqp of the protective wall, the bighe-st level reached- since the March, floods. It i-s still raining and flooding is feared to-night.