LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16038, 31 January 1920, Page 11

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

According to Mr E. Shrimpton, Chief Telegraph Engineer, the Murray telegraph instrument—the very latest in telegraphy, by which the operator takes the message and the receiving machine prints it, will shortly be installed in New Zealand. The Murray machine is one of the most ingenious appliances in the history of invention, and vastly improves the methods of transmitting messages over long distances.

'The New Zealand Bank Officers’ Gnild first Dominion conference has opened its sessions at Wellington. Twenty-seven delegates, representing all parts of New Zealand, are gathered for the conference, which it is expected will last three days. Among matters that will be dealt with are the constition, the discussion, of remits, and the election of officers and standing committees.

Almost unparalleled prices are being obtained for all classes of poultry, especially ducks, on the Dnnedin markets at present (states the Otago Daily Times). Ducks are now selling at from 12s 8d to I2s 10d, while about the same time last year they were realising from 4s to 4s 9d. Bacon pigs also show a considerable rise, the price of green pork now being almost equal to that at which bacon was quoted for the corresponding period of last year.