NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3547, 7 August 1920, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

S'ol'_lPl‘l.T ES OF .EXPL()SIV ES.

W ELLING TON, Aug. 6‘

Supplies of explosives, to obviate z-my shol't‘age during the next few nuonthmhaxre been arranged for from .=\u.~::x-2'llia. Aflepresentations made to the Union Company have resulted in a. \'essol being diverted from Ne_wcustle to Melbourne, \{'here she. w‘ill lift. 150 tons of explosives for New Zeanlnnd. , . ._

PR( )BLEM OF 'HOUSING‘.

DUNEDIN. Aug. ‘6.

'l‘3lé> Dunedin Nfastdr Biaildefs‘ Assocsizitioii *rr.—:so]\'ed that it will do ailiii iis 130-wei‘ to assist in building homes for \VOI'1'((?I'S-by tendol~ing, provided Hie GOV’CTIInIGIIi‘ guarantee the supply of mat<=rials atlfixed prices. The Associ-afion-is strongly of opinion that the t‘ende.ring sjvstem is saiisfacitory and cheap<=st_ The Association s’trongl.V pi-otegsfs against the action of the Government in allowing the Board of Trade to issue permits for the e.\’Dol‘t of so much New Zealand timber, and also urges the Go\'efnlllent to arrange f0;1' a siifficient supply of coal ‘ro cenwni. m:.xnn’r':lctLlrers.