INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15746, 10 February 1922, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Per Press Association.!

AUCKLAND, this day,

Henry Edward Elliott, solicitor, was fined £IOO for having failed for one month to have his trust account for the year ending March 31 audited by » qualified accountant. The Crown Prosecutor stated that Elliott was fined in 1920 for a similar offence.

HAMILTON, this day

Referring to a statement made in the House by the Prime Minister, regarding the payment of tho butter subsidy, Mr T. L. II nines, secretary of the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company, said the statement of tho Department of Imperial Supplies wag an extraordinary one in stating that the audit of the company’s butter sales at present was incomplete. To say that tho company may have been overpaid was in his opinion ridiculous. The company’s claims for subsidy amounted to a considerable sum. Against this progress payments had been made, but a large part of the claim was still outstanding and would be paid' only on completion of the audit. In tho interests of all concerned it would he very desirable to finish this work as •soon as possible, but he felt the Department was not giving the assistance that might he expected. Mr Hnmes added his intention to proceed to Wellington to tako up the matter with the Controller direct.

WOODVILLE, this dav

John Stanley Lloyd was fined £lO and costs 7s at the Court this morning on a charge of playing crown and anchor at Woodville show. It was pointed out that agricultural associations and tlie police were determined to put this evil down.

ASHBURTON, this day

The dead body of a man about 60 years of age, unidentified, was found in a swagger’s hut at Lyndhurst road this morning. The man apparently had been dead for three weeks. (Special to the Herald.) WELLINGTON, this dav.

Sharemarket sales : Banks—National, buyer 113/6; New Zealand, buyer 47/3, seller 48/-; Union, buyer 230/-, seller 232/-; New Zealand Insurance Co., buyer 26/6; Refrigerating Co,. (10/- paid), buyer 12/3, seller 13/-; Jluddart, Parker Co., seller 44/6; Union (Steamship Co., (pref.), buyers 17/10; Waipa, seller 14/9; Leylands, buyer 30/6; Wilson’s Cement Co., buyer 24/9.