GENERAL NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 3 June 1926, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS.

Tho AVashdyke Rifle Club held a shoot on 1. uesday, when a tropiiv donated bv Ale I-]. R. Harris, was .shot tor. the highest scows off the riflo f'o rC i ',V 1{ ;.o Ul Tl lt s - Browne OiJ, A. Jtoss 68, \\. Wood (jS, P. Oi.

At 10. JO Inst there whs a. collision at tlio corner of G'rcv Road and Church Street, between the rider ot a push bicycle and tlio rider of a niotor cycle. The rider of.lhu former did nob have a light-. Roth riders suftcrcd cuts and bruises, but neither was seriously hurt. Roth machines ■were slightly damaged. . '

At the annual meeting of tho South •Island Dairy 'Association at Dunedin yesterday, considerable discussion took placo on the question of obtaining a better award for dairy iaetory employees, and delegates were appointed to attend a conference in Wellington, when tho question of tho possibility of forming a Dominion award could bo discussed.

A Dunedin message says that at aconference of delegates of the South Island Agricultural and Pastoral Associations, a motion was carried that agricultural requirements could best be met by the concentration of all available funds in the establishment of a single, fully staffed and equipped agricultural college; that the Government should defer a decision as to the location of this one agricultural college until an opportunity is given to such parts of the Dominion as m'ay desire, of giving evidence as to the* suitability of their district's for the purpose.

A A\ olseley oar, the property of All" Holiday Hartley, of Alburv, was destroyed by fire late on Alonday evening. Miss Hartley, accompanied by Air and Mrs Alills, was journeying from Fairiio to Opawa, and when ascending a. long hill on the Chamberlain road the car burst into flames. The party endeavoured to run the car down tho opposite side of the bill to a stream of water, Imt halt way down had to abandon the- vehicle, which was completely destroyed. It was insured at the Victoria Insurance Co. for £250.

T’lip South Island Dairy Association, meeting at Dunedin yesterday, discussed the question of responsibility of dairy lactones in connection with tlio pollution of streams, and tlio point was raised whether factories should only be responsible for any actual damage that

.-.niiiiM occur, as -.mart Irom .wffat was termed technical pollution. Tlio president said ho had discussed the matter with tho Hon. O. J. llawken, and the latter had informed him that it was hopeless to expect- any relief through legislation. Air Hawken had, ill fact, stated that ho believed the time was coming when the country would not stand for any pollution of streams whatever.

Before Air E. D. Aloslev, S.M., at the Timaru Alagistratc’s Court yesterday morning, judgment by default was given in a case, G. B. Lnmboni \;. AY. BruiiSsdon junr., for the .sum of IDs Gd, and costs 235. In the case in which the Mayor, Councillors and burgesses ot Timaru proceeded against Robert Uclsli lor po i,(‘-„sioii of a dwelling v.-hieh had been occupied by him as blacksmith to the Timaru Borough Council, Air A. L. Hudson, wlm appeared for plaintiff's, said that possesion had since been given, but ho asked for judgment for £l6 for 16 weeks’ rent owing. Defendant’s counsel (Air F. AY. Ouglov) consented to this, and -the Alagistrato' gave judgment by consent accordingly, with costs amounting to £4 3s.

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