INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14215, 3 June 1910, Page 5

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Per Press AssociationTARANAKI OIL. NEW PLYMOUTH, June 2. At a meeting of directors of the Taranaki Petroleum Company to-night, a letter was read from a firm of London brokers asking to bo entrusted with the negotiations for the sale of the company's property should they desire to sell. They prefaced their request by saying—"Your samples of crude petroleum have been brought under our notice by our friends the principals of the Boards of Trade ; n London, and we are particularly struck with the possibilities of your company." The directors expressed the liveliest satisfaction at the knowledge that the petroleum industry was receiving the consideration of substantial people in the Old Country. NEW FREEZING COMPANY. PALMERS'jI'ON N., June 2. A meeting held yesterday to consider the advisability of forming a cooperative freezing company was at tended by delegates from branches of the New Zealand Farmers' Union of Halcombe, i'eliding, Fitzherbert, Koputaroa, bandon, i.-aimerston, Shannon, Mangaweka, and Rongotea. After a lengthy discussion, during which the benefits of co-operation, as shown by dairying companies, were pointed out. it was decided to form a freezing company, and the following provisional directors were appointed with power to add to their number:—Messrs Balsillie, uin gate, Morrison, Tenson, Haigh, J. Davis, and Mcllroy. The Feilding delegate alone opposed the motion to form a company. CHAMBERS AT~LOGGERHEADS. WELLINGTON, June 2. Ihe President of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce has received another letter from Mr Gunson, President of the Auckland Chamber, respecting the Vancouver service. Mr Gunson charges the Wellington Chamber with using misleading fio-ures regarding the relative costs of the Suez and \ ancouver services and otherwise casts doubts on the genuineness of the Wellington Chamber's attitude. Mr lewsley, President of the Wellington Chamber has briefly replied stating that if the correspondence cannot he earned on in more reasonable and less offensive and insolent tone, the matter had better be dropped. HOTELS AND BOOKMAKERS. CHRISTCHURCH, June 2 At a meeting of the Licensing Bench Mr Bishop, S.M., the chairman commented strongly on the fact that certain hotels were being used bv bookmakers for the purnoso of making bets. He said that five hotels were named by the police in tin's connection. He had taken the Licensed Victuallers' Association into his confidence, and as a result of that body's action the licensees had given a uositive assurance that the abuses would be stopped. Mr Bishop spoke approvingly of the action of two licensees who. on being warned by the police that bookmakers frequented their premises, promptly and effectively stopped betting at their hotels. SENTENCED. Allan F. Young, clerk in the Post and Telegraph. Department, who pleaded guilty to two charges of theft of small sums from the Government, was to-day sentenced to six months' imprisonment on each charge, the terms to run concurrentlv.