LAST WIGHT’S TELEGRAMS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16772, 11 October 1928, Page 4

LAST WIGHT’S TELEGRAMS

(P.A. Messages.) Following the example of other centres, and spurred to action by the visit to the Dominion of the Southern Cross, a largely attended public meeting in Napier last night resolved to form an Aero Cl ill). A committee was appointed to obtain information regarding the acquisition of land suitable for an aerodrome. A youth, 19 years of age, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court in Invercargill yesterday to a charge of forging a withdrawal slip for £6 6s on the Post Office Savings Rank at Invercargill. His name was suppressed, and lie was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. The Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. 0. J. Hawken, announced in Wellington yesterday, the Government’s decision to renew for the 1929 season the guarantee on the export of fruit on the same basis as last season, 11s a case gross on extra fancy grade apples and pears, and 7s a case on good grade apples. The guarantee will apply to only certain varieties of fruit shipped under the conditions approved. A six-roomed residence at Livingstone, owned by J. McKenzie, was completely destroyed by fire yesterday. Fanned by the gale, the building was quickly engulfed in the flames. The outbreak was caused by the wind stoving-in the kitchen window, the strong gusts blowing the flames from fhe range. Nothing was saved. The house was insured, butthe furniture was not covered. John Crawford, 74, a linotype operator in tlie Christchurch Press office, fell from his chair whilo at his machine last night, and died half an hour later. Dr. Orawshaw attended the dying man, hut attempts to restore him failed. Mr. Crawford joined the service of the Press in 1878 and would have completed 60 years of night work if he had lived until' February next. Suppliers of the New Zealand Cooperative Dairy Association by referendum rejected a proposal to purchase works from the Challenge Co. The voting was 387,469 against and 30,473 for the proposal. The suppliers also rejected by 290,083 votes to 136,145 a proposal to reimburse three guarantors of the Racon Co., who lost a total of £25,0C0 when the company failed. A sample of rain water collected in J the neighborhood of Rotokohu, near the West Coast, during the westerly storm on Monday morning, was submitted tothe Cawthron Institute at Nelson yesterday for an opinion on a microscopic examination of suspected material responsible for the• reddish-brown color of the water. It was found to consist of minute particles of dust and sand, the rounded form of which indicated a desert area rather than a volcano as the probable place of origin.