DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 June 1925, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ABH.X , COPYRIGHT. BREWER A FOREST CO ENTRY. WELLINGTON, June 11. The -Minister of Lands (the lion A. D. .McLeod) and the Commissioner of Forests (Sir Heaton .Rhodes) have reached an agreement as to the measures desirable to ho taken to make the host use of 34-5,000 acres of tlie forest country pun based in the Brewera. it now appears certain the whole area will he reserved as a permanent source of timber supply. -Mr McLeod, after a personal inspection of a large portion of the L’rcwera lands, opines the .settlement thereof would entail risks of lire, the clearings doing great damage ; also that the clearing of tlie bush lands would expose the coastal areas to serious danger of inundation by Hooded rivers, which deposit great quantities of shingle and so render the rich lands valueless. Whatever was done the hush around Lake Waikaremoamt should lie preserved. ■Sir Heaton Rhodes intends to call for an immediate report, when the area is handed over to his Department, upon the best methods of development and preservation.

Being :;l present inaccessible t iie Brewera forests are not likely to lie drawn upon in the near luting. hut they represented a national asset of great value.

CYRENA A BANDONER. WANGAIITI, June 11. The Cyrena is to be abandoned to tho underwriters. It is now declared that tlie vessel’s injuries are very serious. Iter back being bolcen and it- would co.-l more than she is worth to salvage her. It transpires that the ship was lioatod off twice, but her draft of 22 feet alt was too much to allow the steamer to enter port here and she is too severely damaged structurally to permit her milking a voyage to another port. Ix.f.’S ABBEAI. BEHELD. Cl 11! ISTCTI BRCII, June 11. The appeal of Mr Wilding, ICC., iu the Stamp Duly ease was uphold hv Mr Justice Adams, without calling eii Mr Wilding’s witnesses.

PREMIER’S STRAIGHT TALK. TO LA BOCK DERCTATLON. WELLINGTON, June 11. A deputation, representative of the Labour organisations of the Dominion waited on the Prime .Minister, the lion Gordon Coates and the Attorney-Gen-eral Sir Francis Bell, this morning, to protest against the deportation oi the man Lyons, who was prominent in connection with the recent trouble on tho -Manuka, to ask thaL the provisions of the Undesirable Immigrants Exclusion Act lie repealed or amended so as to give a person the right of appeal against a deportation order ; also to as!; that the ban on the importation ol eoriain classes of economic, social, political and philosophical literature lie lilted.

The Prime .Minister replied that the Government intended t" stand hr 1 inlaw as it stood at. present, holding that tlie people of New Zealand should have tlie right to sav who should or who should not come into the country. Mr Coates also made clear that tlie dissemination of dangerous doctrines iu the Dominion was not going to be permitted.

L' 100 !• INK. 11A \V KI! A. .hiiic 11. At the Magistrate's Court, David Arthur I lenderson pleaded utility to a charge in' hook-mnkino. A line of Cion was imposed. 'lit,. Magist rale asked Mini t.h<- *i i - ( umstunees should l;o roporl.'(l to the l.i.viisiii;' ( OIM1I! it t M!I . HANK OK N.Z. c 11kistckinu ii. dune n. The I.alam o sheet and profit and loss slateieent of the Rank of New Zealand for the year ended .March HI, hist which is io he j>re ruled at the ordinarv general mooting on dune l!Hh tire as follow <:- - The profit s, aft er providing for oxpen.se.- of management'. nil had and donut fnl debt-, and other contingencies, and adder making provision for the annual donation to the Provident Finn!, also for the bonus to the sin IT. are CSIII. Ko l!s 7d. From this had to he deducted the interest on gnaranteed ..lock C-M ,1 l!'d l id. leaving the lialan:e of prolil for the year of CSIP.-S ) 1|„ s.ik to which has to he added a balance brought forward Irotn last year I.d lls Id. nudeiii"; the total of L'! .dJu.TPP Pd. From lid- sum i as been raid a di\ i- <)■ ud mi prelerenee •• A ” shares absorbing CoO.UOO: an interim dividend on Preference “H ” shares totalling 3:i;l ;-d : an interim dividend of Is Id per share on ordinary shares, absorbim.; CtlilO.hOU : or in nil. C'Kul.dda p. s lid, leaving available lor dislrilmtion C1.1112.■!(:;> lbs Id. This stun the directors propose should be disposed of as follows:- A dividend on P:e!ereneo "II shares ’making Clll’.oOil for the year, coital to 2s "d dividend of Is Id per share on ordinal v shares i making Cldil.blMi lor ike vear. i‘(jiial to ahoul 2s Pd per share"), absorbing C2o!).Ptbl, the transfer to the Reserve Fund id' L’2",if,oi):i i making the Reserve Fund both. leaving a lialallee to be carried onward el t01d.200 2s Pd,

I’rNION MOVE. WEKI.IXOTON. dune 11. \s|.ed hv a " Post ” reporter to-day

as to whether his action in agreeing to a conference with the Reform Parly had the approval ot ins Party Mr Millord replied: "After Mr Massey’s funeral. the Parliamentary members of our party discussed the question of a fusion and unanimously authorised the Kxeeutive of the party to agree to enter into preliminary negotiations it the question arose. The Executive then met and authorised me to negotiate tin* terms for a conference. Any decision arrived at by the Conference will, of course, have to be approved hv the I’ariy. In the arrangement. I have made for a conference. 1 am carrying out ley Party s wish. canterbury ayeathkr. CTim>TCHURCH. -Tune 12. Bain, bail, sleet and snow fell in various parts of Canterbury this morning accompanied by a piercingly cold south-west gale.