DOMINION ITEMS.
POL I i I CAL. (Ihj Telegraph—Per Press Association) AUCKLAND, .May 3. A petition, hearing .500 names, has been presented to Sir .James Parr, urging him, in tlie interests of the Reform Party, to contest the Auckland Suburbs seat a) the next general election. His reply is to he given in a week. Sir James Parr said that lie narl not anticipated this request. Since Jiis return from 1 England he had been busy with 1 1 is private business affairs, and he had given little attention to politics. lie -was still as keen as 1 ever, tie said, to see New Zealand well governed, and anything that lie could do to further;that rtid lie would do with all liis power. PRICE OF NEWSPRINT. WELLINGTON, May 2. It was reported in tin l newspapers recently that Messrs Price Brothers and Coy., Ltd., had made an announcement from their New York office to the effect that the price of newsprint, would lie reduced by five dollars per ton from M'Uy 1. 1931. The New Zealand agents of Price Bros, liiive now received cabled advice that it 's not contemplated any reduction will lie made in the export ma rkot. /.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 May 1931, Page 6
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