INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13717, 22 June 1915, Page 5

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(I»er Press Association. l* AUCKLAND^ Ws day. Mrs Pnrclias, wife of.Dr A. Ghallinor Purchas, of Auckland, died at Alexandria lasl.. Tuesday. ..Docto,!* Purchas is senior medical officer of the Auckland Infantry Battalion with the ; Main Expeditionary Force, rij^g' jWif^- since arrival m Egypt was m co-operation ■with other iNew Zealandei^' to assist the authorities m various ways. GEX'L •'•-■ • * ■ PALMFJiSTON X.,this day. The Twelfth National Dairy Snow opened m dull, threatening" weather today. The display is one of the finest m the history of *the association^and reilectß the remarkable degree of prosperity m the- Dominion. In only ,one or two unimportant departments is there a falling oil" of entries. The products of the farm make a magnificent display. Judging is m progress. The Prime Minister attended \a.nd performed the opening. ceremony. ■? ■ WANOANUI, this day. Dragging .opera,tiom* for the body of Dudley Thomas Croacher, ■' aged six years, drowned, m the river last evening, * have, so far been unsuccessful. WELINOTON, this day. Edwin T. Norris, at present registrar ■of . Victoria -Collage,, has been appointed Ilegistvar. of. -the Xew Zealand 17niversitv. There wi-ro 43 applicants. Obituary : Mr l^obevt Archibald, a ine'mher 01 the old firm of .Scoullao: and Archibald, who erected the Goverriment offices on Lambton Quay and ■ other large buildings m Wellington ; aged '80. A. Gazette extraordinary contains an Order m Council prohibiting the export of potatoes. ', "■*- ■ "^ **