DOMINION NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18069, 17 March 1923, Page 9

DOMINION NEWS.

PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM Auckland. Two dairy companies were fined £lO each for sending to the grading stores butter containing more than 16 per cent ol water. The Magistrate, while unable to make an order, suggested that it nvas a case in which the names should be suppressed. The defence was that the scales were defective in eno instance, and that tho buttennnkcr was unfamiliar with tho new scales in tho second. Te Kaiti: Unusual interest centred in the election of the Waitorno Licensing Committee tills year, in view of the fact that Messrs H. T. Morton and V. W. Lorrigan allowed themselves to he nominated solely to foster the municipal licensing scheme for To Kuiti in tho event of tho Government granting local option. They were opposed by Messrs N. N. Boddie and W. Hattaway, To Kuiti, in tho interest of prohibition. There .were ten candidates for tho five seats. On a count of the scattered nature of tho electorate the returns are slow in coming to hand. The la-test available figures are: Morton 936, Lorrigan 847, Piggott 753, Jenkins 758, Seymour 692, Smythe 565, Bird 517, Birdling 512, Boddie 335, Hattaway 307. Seven email returns are unlikely to affect the first five.

Masterton: Honry Arthur George Bell, a farmer at Belvedere, was found guilty of obtaining £BS by false urctences from the Northern Assurance Company. He was sentenced to six months* imprisonment n«. Wellington. Christchurch: In connection with the recent ascent of the highest unnamed peak of the Triad Range in the Southern Alps by Mr Julian Grande, who named the peak Barnicoat, Mr Grande has received a telegram from the Prime Minister approving of tho name. Mr Massey states that tho Surveyor-Gonoral is being instructed to give effect to this decision. Seton Stewart Kyle, aged 17, a student of St. Andrew’s College, died yesterday afternoon as a result of an injury received in a cricket match on Wednesday. Kyle collided with another youth while fielding a catch, and suffered a. ruptured liver. The deceased was a son of Mr H. S. S. Kyle, who contested the Ricearton scat in the Reform interest at tho Goner*l ion.