FROM FAR AND NEAR

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10966, 15 October 1928, Page 2

FROM FAR AND NEAR

H.M.A.S AUSTRALIA’S VISIT. Gleet’" fete graph —Tress Association WELLINGTON. Last Night, Rear-Admiral |-G. E. Hyde arid the staff of H.M.A.S. Australia were entertained by the Government to-day at luncheon. A few Parliamentarians were present. Mr Coates said: “We in New Zealand are inseparably wrapped up with the fortunes of the Australians. We are trying to make exactly the same provision in principle for the. efficient protection of our trade routes by joining with Australia and other parts of the Empire in methods that will effect that object.” MID-CANTERBURY SEAT. ASHBURTON, Last Night. Mr David Jones. Reform candidate, for mid-Canterbury, addressed a. meeti ixag to-nigii t. He claimed that the Feform Government represented labour better than any Labour Government. in the Empire. Regarding finance, our interest on the war debt, and war sinking fund amounted practically to the amount spent on Public Works last year, «o that, but for the war burdens, borrowing could cease. He defended the Government’s land policy but said further development was essential. A vote of thariKs was carried by acclamation. UNITED PARTY. A definite decision to contest the Oamaru seat as the United Party candidate was announced yesterday bv Mr J. A. MacPherson, who. represented Oamaru as a Nationalist in the 1922-25 Parliament. SAND BLOWN OVER NEW ZEALAND. NELSON. Last Night. A sample of rain water collected in the neighbourhood of Rotokohu, near the West Coast, during the westerly storm on Monday morning was submitted to the Cawthrou Institute to-day for an opinion on a microscopic examination, of the suspended material responsible for the reddish-brown colour of the. waiter. It was found to consist of minute particles of dust and sand. the rounded form of which indicated a desert area, rather than a volcano as th e probable place of origin NAPIER FORMS AERO CLUB. NAPIER, Last Night. Following the example of other centres and spurred to action by the visit to the Dominion of the Southern Cross a largely-attended pub liemeeting in Napier to-night resolved to form an Aero Club. FORESTRY DELEGATES. x DUNEDIN. October 10. Ihe imperial Forestry delegates, who returned north by special train this afternoon, inspected the City Corporation’s afforestation work, which they warmly praised. RHODES SCHOLARSHIP. CHRISTCHURCH. Last Night. The Professorial Beard of Canterbury College to-night decided to nominate for selection a.s a Rhodes Scholar, Mr Philip Leonard Matthew Sol.jak. Mr Solja-k, who is 21 years o.u attended the Tauranga District High School and Marist Brothers School at Auckland. FRENCH - MOTOR FINES. PARIS, October 10. A decree has been issued authorising road police t 0 collect on the spot motoring fines, ranging from 12s to 245. The offender signs an acknowledgement of conviction. The regulations provide for an ordinary prosecution where, other than pecuniary punishment is involved. and damages, or in cases where the offender has been previously convicted of a similar offence, otherwise the culprit- has a choice of fine on the spot or court hearing.—Australian Press Associotion—United Service. CURE COMING FOR DIPTHERIA. PARIS. October 10. Dr Ramon, of the Pasteur Institute, told the International Diptheria Congress at Garaches that it was only a question of a few years when diptheria with its attendant- diseases will be entirely unknown in France. He hopes during the coining year to secure perfect vaccine, which he believed would give school children immunity, and which he hoped would justify its compulsory use. Already, there have been remarkable results among troops.—Australian Press Association—United Service.