POLITICAL ITEMS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13697, 12 September 1908, Page 3

POLITICAL ITEMS.

Per Press Association. CHRISTCH LTRCET, Sept. 11. Mr John Jamieson, who is. a member of the. Education Board and the East Christchurch School Committee and who has taken keen interest in matters affecting the Avon electorate, will W a candidate for Avon at the coming election. . . The City . Council ha? made arrangements to meet the objection raised by the Legislative Council to the Council's Sanitation Bill which has been hung up. Th« Mayor to-day interviewed Mr C. Louisson on the subjects in dispute and it is . hoped that matters will be smoothed. INVERCARGILL, Sept. 11. The Chamber of Commerce to-day discussed the Agricultural Produce Importation and Sale Bill and resolved that the secretary draw up a strong protest against." the Bill going through in the form proposed, at present, and that telegrams be sent to the Minister of Agriculture and Southland members to this effect-. It was urged that the Bill would be detrimental to the farming interests, and press meet heavily on innocent parties, the merchants who purchased infected produce in perfect good faith from a clean sample.