INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12698, 16 March 1910, Page 5

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Pei?, press Association.)

HASTINGS, this day. The Leatherubber Compariv has accepted a tender for £989 for the erection of a factory, which is to be /completed at tho end of May. WAIPAWA, this day. A municipal theatre, Avith. seating accommodation for a. thousand people, Avas formally opened by the. Mayor yesterday. -■'■'■'•'-. HAWERA, this day. R. W. Bond, New Plymouth, was the successful tenderer for the erection of tho Hawera winter show buildings, at £3530. ■'■'■"'■'. WELLINGTON, this day. . The annual meeting of the Ncav Zealand Anti-Opiuim Association Avas held' last night. An address Avas given by Mr Yung Hiang Hwang,' Chinese Consul, pointing out the evils' of the opium traffic. A resolution was adopted condemning the traffic. ' News wps received m Wellington yesterday that Oaptaitii James Stott, formerly a. master -in the Union Company')* service, Avas killed on the, railway at Geclong, Victoria, lost Saturday. Deceased Avas a brother of Captain Edward Stott, assistant marine superintendent at Wellington for the Union Company. ■The Minister of Agriculture is considering a proposal to meet difficulties which tho makers of pi'i\ T a.to dairy butter are experiencing m preventing their butler containing an excess of moisture. It has been suggested by tho director of tho Dairy Produce Division that a depot be established at one or more of the central shipping ports, through which makers of dairy butter would have" the privilege of sending their produce. At such depot it would be tested before shipment, and, m softie- cases where any excess of moisture m butter was detected it could be reworked and. repacked before being shipped, for. a small charge, estimated at 6rt per box. On the charge of murder of Christopher Smith on 4th March, Robert Corkill was, asrain remanded to-day till next Wednesday, v ' : . -7 ' . " ' ' " ■ I