LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS.
CHRISTCHURCH, last night. ' According to Sir Francis Bell, Com- ' missioner ot State Forests, the Government has under consideration the establishment of a School of Forestry for the Dominion at Canterbury College. At Lyttelton at midnight on Saturday Albert Steels, of Auckland, completed one hundred hours' continuous pianoplaying, thus breaking the world's record made by Albert Baker at Sydney recently by one hour.
Tho workers at the'Bealey end of the; Otira. Tunnel, wlio are negotiating lor new contract rates with the Public Works engineer (Mr. A. Dinnie), who was sent j specially from Wellington to deal with the tunnel dispute, have not yet agreed upon the price to be paid them. The organiser of the Canterbury Progress League received the following telegram to-day from the men's secretary:— "Mr. Dinnie's offer of £/« _ s per foot less than at Otira refused by us. Our offer of £2 17s less than Otira refused by Mr. Din-nie."—Pi-ess Assn.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15270, 19 July 1920, Page 7
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156LAST NIGHT'S TELEGRAMS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15270, 19 July 1920, Page 7
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