INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13973, 20 April 1916, Page 5

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Per Prfess Assbciation.) AY OK LAND, tb h day. Ruben G?or<j,<'. LMgott aged 18 months, 1 was drowned -at MoumouUa'i m a; creek near his father's lionse.' # A meeting. ,of , the .Auckland Water- ■ siderfl' Unio.n, .-it wliich _^3o wei-e pi-e---sent, earned a' iWoluiion; of bf confidence m the president^ Mr Wood, removing him from office; There were five dissenting votes.. The election ,of a new president was deferred. Mr Wood has been president „, for . nearly two years. He occupied the position of walking delegate, which, was abolished just before recent acceptance by the unjon of the open-door policy m admitting members. It"isr; stated that the step taken is not due to any opposition to arbitration. .',--.. 'vy'.---. <'■ '•■'- William Slade, a Methodist minister, ag):d 57 years, on \e&v& iov nevsfam-. breakdown, was found m a bedroom by. his -.wife, sufrering from, a gi\n9hotwouiid m the head. lie died on reaching! the hospital. ■ •;.. • WELLINGTON, last night. ■ Mr W. S. Short is to succeed Mr H. J. 11. Blow, who is retiring from the Under-Secretaryship for Piiblici AVoi'ks.' The four members of --the' Parliamentary Association to visit Britain m. response to the invitation of the British Parliamentary Association will be chosen at a meeting m Wellington next Wednesday. >'■■;■

•" OHRISTOHUROH; -.this- day. Two cases, of infantile.' paralysis, occurred m South Oahterbury,, ,-both patients ; being girls, • tlieu'''i>espectiv3 ages being soyen. ■ gnd^four. -.These.., make a . total ' this-' j tSr '. of; 39, with 'four dsaths.. ; ' , >- v.' (Special to Herald.)-' , m*'v v ; , CHRISTOHURCHv tin's da v V. ;;• "There is one' industry tliat is'-en-couraged m every way," remarked the , ;Horu Mr BaaT at the Coi?iciliatipn' Cpui\- ' c,il to-day, when tho saddlei's'* 'disptite ■j \vas',un'dai' eoiisidfii'fltion,' "ahjl tiiai }fe I racing. It has- been ■fenequraged' to steh fan extent that it lias bedome.ai^irfdu'sti^ 1 that cannot be touched. If; there was less

horse racing and -more attention' paid to H; the industries of the community, they would get' on better.." ■'■'