TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 February 1920, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

PKR CIISHB ASSOCIATION

RATE OF MONEY FQR WAR. MEMORIAL. CHRISTCHURCH, February 2-5. At a meeting of citizens to-day, it was decided that the City Council he asked to obtain the necessary power to raise the sum of not more than £25,000 bv a special rate, on capital value in the. citv, to erect a war memorial.

RESERVED DECISION. INVERCARGILL, February 25. Mr J. Criiickshank, S.M., gave Ins reserved decision to-day in the case in which a cycle agent was charged with carrying on a business as a secondhand dealer without being licensed to do so. Mis Worship held that trails, actions in second hand machines was of common occurrence in the cycle tiade and brought the dealer within the statute. It made no difference that dealing in second hand machines was only occasional and incidental to defendant’s real business. A conviction was entered without a penalty.

PRICE of ay h eat. CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 25

•A conference to consider the price for the next season’s wheat crop is to bel held at Christchurch on Friday morning. Hon. Air Noswortliy (Minister of Agriculture) will he present. The representatives of the growers will he the Executives of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union for North Canterbury, South Canterbury, Otago, and Southland, with a representative of each of the wheat growing localities.

TRIBUNALS APPOINTED. WELLINGTON, February 23. The appointment of local tribunals under the Board of Trade to deal with profiteering is proceeding. Inc Auckland Tribunal is already appointed and to-day recommendations arrived regarding the Christchurch Tribunal Tile names will not lie given out until the main tribunals are appointed.

ON • HOLIDAY. INVERCARGILL, February 25. Sir Joseph Ward and Lady Ward leave for Christchurch to-morrow and proceed to Wellington on Friday. They will probably leave for Australia within a few days, to spend a month with friends in the Commonwealth.

UNDER WAR REGULATIONS

THREE CHARGES LAID. CHRISTCHURCH, This Day Three charges under the War Regulations arising out of the disaster o the coastal steamer Taimu near Cheviot last September, occupied the Magistrate's Court to-day when Frederick John Needham, manager of the Snipping Department of the New Zealand Refrigerating Coy., which oiuu the Tainui, and Claude Smellie, shipping clerk, in the employ of the same company, were charged with endangering the safety of the ship by loading benzine in leaking receptacles, properly stowed. Frederick A\ llliam Partridge, Manager for the Vacuum Oil Coy at Christchurch was also ('barged with procuring the said loading.