NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume LVIII, Issue 12, 11 June 1926, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

NOTES FROM ALL PARTS. THE DOMINION DAY BY DAY. ProTlucial Courts. The Auckland winter exhibition provincial districts courts’ competition resulted (possible points 550): Franklin 392, 1; Thames-Haurakt 365, 2; Te Kulti 253, 3. r- » » HllKary Defaulters. At Wellington yesterday Mr Hewtt, S.M., said that men -who failed o attend military training camps were acting unfairly to those men vho did, and who gave up for the time being lucrative positions and accepted the 4s a day paid by the State. Four young' men were bebre him, and lie lined each £5, which le described as the uniform penalty. * # # Suggested New Hospital District. The unanimous decision that the Health Department be asked to consider the question of creating a new fospilal district, the Rotorua Hospital to be the base institution, was reached by the Waikato Hospital Board yesterday. The board consid-' wed that owing to the geographical position of Rotorua, there was no ■ommunity of interest 1 with the Waikato. * » *- Company Manager Charged. In the Christchurch Magistrate’s ’ourt, Ernest Alfred Akins, the manger of Andrew Lees, Ltd... oil and aint merchants, was committed for rial on a charge of attempting to Main £2 19s from Carl Johansen by ilsely representing that two 28Ihs rums of Hartman’s No. 2 Red Hand aint were Hartman’s No. 1 paint, he prosecution alleged that frauds ad been taking place over a number f years. Accused was granted bail, elf £IOO and one surety of £2OO. * * * Igrlcultural College. The following resolution regardng the agricultural college was dopted by the Canterbury A. and P. \ssoeiatiou on Wednesday: “That in he opinion of this meeting, neither ;he number of agricultural experts, at oresent required, nor the finances of he Dominion warrant the immediate' -stablishment of two agricultural coleges of university standing and capable of turning out first-class agricultural experts, that the Government ' e urged to consider the feasibility of both reconciling the conflicting claims of the North, and South Is'ands and of economically and efficiently meeting the present requirements, by the establishment of a single agricultural college, located oartly at Lincoln and partly in a central position in the North Island.” T t was decided to send a copy of tlie resolution to the Prime Minister and to each member of the Cabinet.