LATE NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14986, 13 August 1919, Page 6

LATE NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(Per Press Association.) WHANG AREI, , this day. The Shaw Savill steamer Malu to-day completed her New Zealand .loading, lifting 6800 quarters of beef here. Sixty overseas passengers joined the vessel, which sailed for Port Said direct. AUCKLAND, this day. Tlie Provincial Executive of the Auckland Farmers' Union resolved unanimously to urge the Government to appoint experts t» inquire into the whole position of the meat trade and to endeavor to arrange with the Imperial Government for the release of the Dominion produce at a price that will put it m the hands of retail butchers without profit or loss ; further to report to the New Zealand Government! what, steps should be taken m regard to the marketing of New Zealand produce after the .cessation, of the commandeer. 'WELLINGTON, 'this day. Lord Jellicoe has notified the Government that he will arrive m Wellington on August 20. A proclamation is to be .issued this week, proclaiming the abolition of the Expeditionary Force Reserve. A general order will also be issued, discharging from the force as* from August 7th, all men m camp or who were under 1 orders to proceed to camp on ; the sign- j ine> -of the armistice. Tlie i combined effect of the proclamation arid' order is that conscription m New Zealand now, both invletter and fact, has ceased to exist. CHRISTCHTJRCH. this day. The Tramway Board paid into "the Supreme Court £2000 compensation m connection with the death of William Brunton, killed m the Ferry road' tram j smash. _y 1 , The Governor-General this morning I presented letters patent to Sir Joseph ! Kinsey, and invested several ; ladies and : gentlemen with .-the; Order of the British Empire. He presented a Military Cross to Lieut. G. C. Gerrard, and a* Royal. Red Cross Medal to Sister A. J: Mackay. The annual meeting of the New Zealand Shorthorn Cattle Breeders' Associatior was held to-day, Mr. R. E. Alexander presiding. The annual report stated that the members of the association total 160. Mr. Alexander was re-elected president. Mesßra. John Deana (South Island), and H. Gascpyne (North Island)were re-elected members of the council. It was decided that after July 1, 1919, breeders must tattoo or fire "brand all animals used for breeding purposes, and that a tattoo or fire brand be included m the pedigree and breeding returns. Shields for competition, m 1919 were allocated as follows : North Island, Masterton. Feilding, Hawke's Bay, Auckland and Hawera : South Island, Christchurch. Dunedin, Invercargill, Ashburton. Gore. It was decided that it be a recommendation that Government breeding cattle submitted, to public sale be j tested for soundness. The Presbytery to-day unanimously carried a motion of protest against the. proposed four months' continuous mili- ' tary training of youths, considering most of the work of the scheme could better bo conducted under the Education Department. j DUNEDIN, this day. The police received a telegram from I Alexandra that William Keeble, a miner. ,aged 57, was found dead ;yesterday under a fall of earth. Stanley Norman Guest, aged two, died at Balclutha. as the result of swallowing two blocks of paint from a child's paint box. The child swallowed the paint yes- ( t-erday forenoon. After being given, an emetic he vomited and seemed all right, but died early this morning.