LAST NIGHT’S TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15466, 10 March 1921, Page 8

LAST NIGHT’S TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Asgb'Ctatfon.r J ' *''• AUCKLAND, • last night. The schooner Cecilia Sudden, bourn, from Newcastle to; Callao, laden witl coal, put into . Auckland "to-night, leaking badly, owing to he/ivy weather having been encountered.- --V - : DUNEDIN, last night.

At a meeting of thenßoard of Direc tors of Messrs. Kemplliornej • -Prossci and Co., Ltd., a dividend of four pel cent and a bonus of two per cent., making ten per cent, for the tyear, was recommended.

WELLINGTON, last, night,. Professor Ernest If. Wilson, assistant director of the- Arnold' Arboretum ai Harvard University, ’ U.S.A., -after ‘inspecting the forests of, tho \ Dominion speaks of tho appalling waste of tiiribei and the pitiful sight of the stark burnt trunks.

At the Pharainaceutical Conference the following motion was carried: That, this conference approves of the prill-5 eiple of chemists’ lines for chemists and that the members of this society be. asked to pledge’ themselves; not to in-4 troduce any new lines when offered o: the market without, the. approval of their division, which,- in , turn, . will pass ,on consideration of ’ such lines tii the Chemists’ Defeneo Association, be fore accepting or. introducing them. t< the public. In the course dis cussion-it was said that:- the- Chemists Defence Association would exercise t kind, of censorship over the introduc tion of proprietary, mediciilijs' , and ; tin advertising of such medicines, ,members Of the conference recognising that pharmacists had a responsibility, to- the public in these matters, and that they could exercise a great deal of control, j TIMARU, last, night. , At a special meeting-of-the executivi of the South - .Canterbury!;. Farmers’ Union to discuss wjieat; jrriqos, it was decided that farmers we reel tot prepared to accept thUs year’s prifces, / .which should be those agreed op-at. the . October conference, with the Minister, and. the Government be, asked,.to retfoiigider.the guarantee for next year which was .considered too low by some, riiciubers, but others wpre satisfied, and it lias beer, decided to consult the, branches. WESTPORT, night. T.lie Buller County Council takes-ex-ception ,to the; .Govcrjlnient-t Qi'dbvitig 150,000 - tons of coal from. Wales, whei. there are boundless supplies of .cpal on the West Coast of New Zealand, and it was resolved to write a letter of pro-, test to the Prime Minister/