INTERPROVINCIAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14986, 13 August 1919, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL

(Per' Press Association.) AUCKLAND this day. Mrs Roche, wife of Police Sergeant Roche, died m the hospital under an nnaesthetic used for an operation on enlarged thyroid gland. WELLINGTON, last night. The Wellington Presbytery carried a resolution condemning the Defence Minister's proposals to extend the defence system by training the youth of the country for four months m camp. CHRISTCHURCH. this, day. Sales reported : Christchurch Gas Co., £6 7s 6d : Colonial Saga 1 ", Fiji and New Zealand, 6 per cent. "preference, -820 12s 6d. The Presbytery to-day received the resignat?ons of the Rev. Thomas McDonald, for 30 years of St. Peter's, Woolston, and the Rev. G. Johnston, of Methven. INVERCARGTLL, this day. As the result of a raid by the police William Atkinson was charged with using his billiard saloon, as a common gaming house, and William RatclifFe was charged with aiding him. Accused was remanded until Friday, bail of £5140 being allowed. ' . <

The air service of the United States army, m, co-operation, with the, forest service, is now actively^ patrolling national forests m California for lures, and plans are m thf making foe the wide extension of this work m other sections of the wintry,