LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14963, 16 July 1919, Page 7

LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS.

{Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. Injuries which terminated fatally in an unusual manner wero sustained by | Charles Marsh, am elderly employee of IJ. J. Craig, Ltd., in the course of his duties at the stable this morning. He had his left hand badly lacerated i through being caught in a revolving ! plane which he was using to cut off some lengths of wood. He was immediately taken to the hospital, whfcre it ) was decided to place him under an anaesthetic and. have the wound stitched. While this was being administer•ed, he collapsed and expired. TIMARU, last night. J A conference of the various Progress ■ and Development Leagues and niembers jof Parliament . in the southern half of jthe island meets here to-morrow.. The ;Hon. G. W. Russell is to address the conference, which will deal with remits regarding electricity, roads, land settler ment and other matters. I j The executive of the South Canterbury J Farmers' Union (representing alii ' branches) at a meeting complained that jthe Miniater had evaded a reply to a practical suggestion regarding the grading of wheat, and that. he had generally turned down the farmers' suggestion. It ■was decided to ask that the price for next year's whea^t be gazetted at once, and to inform the Minister that unless the grading system was amended, it ( would have a bad' effect on wheat growling.