INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16496, 31 July 1924, Page 5

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day

Mr. J. A. Simpson presided at a conference of the South African War Veterans’ Association. A deputation was appointed to interview the Prime Minister on various matters affecting the association members, including the proclamation of the application of the Discharged Soldiers’ Settlement Act to South African War veterans, so that they may secure the same benefits as enjoyed by men returned from the Great War. Mr. Simpson was re-elected l president; Major E. G. Fraser (Auckland), Captain J. J. Clark (Wellington), and D. A. Falconer (Dunedin), vice-presidents; and the following form the executive: —Revs. D. C. Bates and A. W. H. Compton, Messrs. J. J. Clark, D. Mclntyre, T. Fletcher and W. Tilling, the last-named being secretary. An (Jider-iii-Council gazetted to-day extends the embargo, on imports from certain states of California, Oregon and Washington to plants, fruits and vegetables (other than canned, dried, etc.), and all grain and farm produce, in addition to oats, barley, maize, hay, straw and chaff, already prohibited. At the Supreme Court Frank Ansell pleaded guilty to forgery in sending a number of telegrams, knowing them to be false, with intent that they should be acted on. Sentence was deferred till Saturday.

Reoprted sale : Bank of Australasia, £l3 14s 6d. Geprge Arthur Genness, who was found guilty at- the Supreme Court of wilfully attempting to defeat the ends of justice in. connection with the purchase of a stolen diamond pendant valued at £65. was fined £2O. Counsel for the accused said the prisoner had been .guilty of a mistaken sense of his obligation to the woman who had sold the pendant to him, and had not realised his obligations to the police. His character was -excellent, and he had been in business in the city for 27 years. CHRISTCHURCH, this day.

Reported sales: Ward’s Brewery, cum. dir.. 52s- N.Z. Farmers' Co-opera I ive Co., 6‘ per cent., 1930, £B7 10s. On ’Change: Ward’s Brewery On., cum. div., 51s 6d; Electro Zinc Co., prof., cum. div., 27s (two parcels).

DUNEDIN, this dav

Sales: Bank of New Zealand. 56/9 (two parcels). Reunited sales: New Zealand Breweries, Ltd., 28/- (two par•cels). ,