TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19201, 18 June 1924, Page 8

TELEGRAMS.

(Per United Press Association.) PALMERSTON N-, June 17. The twenty-second annual National Dairy Show of the Manawatu A. and P. Association opened this morning in ideal weather. The entries this year in nearly every class show a good increase. . . The Manawatu A. and P. Association proposes to hold a Queen Carnival in September with the object of raising £6OOO towards the cost of extensive improvements to the show grounds, which will make them the first in the dominion. The estimated cost of the whole scheme is £IO,OOO, and it is considered that the extensions in view will provide ample accommodation for all time. Included in the plan, which was inaugurated by Mr J. M. Johnston, the veteran treasurer of the association, is provision for a trotting course, a motor track, three football and athletic-areas, and a building for motors. WELLINGTON, June 17. Mr Massey intends when Parliament meets to s-übmit proposals for an increase above the present rate of 25 per cent, in the proportion of British manufacture in goods before they may become entitled, as far as Now Zealand is concerned, to preferential tariff. Mr Massey says that'he is aware that the existing rate had been decided on as an Empire policy, but there was no reason why New Zealand should not take the lead in improving the position of British manufacturers. The Main Highways Board says that there is no provision to enable county councils to raise loans for main highways. The Government will bo urged by local bodies to raise a loan a.nd lend the money oat to them CHRISTCHURCH, June 17. The Council of Christian Congregations at Christchurch yesterday carried a resolution —“That inasmuch as mental hospitals are ’ public institutions, are supported mainly by public funds, in the judgment of this council it is highly desirable that in the management of such institutions the public should be represented. To this ,end the council suggests that the Government n ako provision by legislation for the election of local boards of control, .which shall function with regard to mental hospitals as the hospital and charitable aid boards do with regard to general hospitals.”