GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6946, 27 June 1929, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS

A luncheon will bo tendered by the Prime Minister to the officers of the Em den at. Parliament House on July S states a Wellington message. The fa tost liners in the world at present are the Mauretania (254 knots,' and Majestic (25 knots), both British ships; then come France (24 knots), a French vessel, and an American, Leviathan (21 knots). A hint of retrenchment given by tho Hon. A. J. Stallworthy has given rise to a rumour that tho Department of Forestry is to be merged with the Lauds department. The Hon. W Taverner, however, says there is not the slightest foundation for the report. At the dairy conference at Whangarci, after a long discussion on a remit that Ihe words standardised and modified, as affected cheese, be discontinued, that butter should be sold on merit and that every crato should be stamped with its buttorfat content, it was resolved that nothing bo done pending the return from England of Mr. Singleton, director of the Dairy Division.

A sequel to the Wuliine mailbag robbery is tho gazetting of a postal regulation limiting to £l.O the value of bullion that may be sent by registered letter through the Post Office. Tho regulation further prescribes that not more tlmn £lO worth of bullion shall be carried in any one mail, and the Post-master-General reserves the right to refuse auy postal packet, containing bullion on" tho ground _ that the mail may be subject to violation,