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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12116, 18 April 1925, Page 4

Rain was fairly general throughout the Wairarapa district on Thursday night. At Featherston the fall was very heavy. Chrome ulceration has been declared by an Order-in-Council to be a disease within the operation of the Workers’ Compensation Act, 1922. By a proclamation gazetted yesterday, His Excellency the Governor-Gene-ral declared that the Lyttelton prison shall from now on cease to be a prison.

At Dunedin a man named Thomas Livingstone attacked his landlady with a shovel. The woman was struck on the head and face. Livingstone was sent to prison for six months.

It was stated at a meeting of the W anganui-Rangitikei Power Board that only 600 k.w. from the Mangahao souroe would he necessary at the outset. as. it would take some years to work up to the allocation of 1500 k.w. “There is a lot of agitation in Otaki for admission to the hospital,” said the secretary at a meetine of the Palmerston North Hospital. It was stated that a number were waitiug for admission to the institution there.

A reason given b.v a Mastertoii noul-try-farmer for the fall in the price of eggs was that tomatoes were being put on the market in Wellington in large quantities, and housewives found them cheaper food than eggs. Maori girls attending the Ratana Easter camp displayed plenty of furs (states the “Wanganui Herald”). Some of the expensive coats they wore were in striking comparison with the slight apparel the natiyes in the early colonisation days were clothed in—a blanket or a rug was satisfying then.

The Secretary to the Treasury acknowledges receipt of the following amounts, forwarded by persons unknown, as conscience-money to the New Zealand Government:—ss forwarded to the Post and Telegraph Department, Greymouth; £1 forwarded to the Railway Department, Greymouth. Orders-in-Council gazetted fix at 6 per tent, the rate of interest for tfie following local body loans: Otaki. Borough Council, £2500 for the extension of waterworks, and £IOOO for the construction of bridges and culverts; Wairarapa County Council, £I7OO for paying compensation for lands taken under the Public Works Act.

Some 1400 acres of settlement land in the Taranaki land district were gazetted yesterday as open for selection, and 1000 acree of other land as open for sale and selection; also 965 acres of settlement land and 966 of other lands, as open for selection and as open for sale and selection, in the Wellington land district; and 103 acres open for sale or selection in the Marlborough land district. For Influenza Colds take Wood's Gr<Mi Cure.