TELEGRAMS.
[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.] CONCEALMENT OF BIRTH. INVERCARGILL, April 16. A young woman pleaded guilty at the police court to-day to a charge of concealment of birth, and was committed for sentence. She gave birth to a child at a house in the country, where she was employed as domestic servant. Tlie child' was still born. The following morning she attempted to bury it in the garden, but her strength being insufficient, she burned the body in the kitchen range. THE JOCKEYS’ CASE. WELLINGTON. April 16. Representatives of the Jockeys’ Association waited on the Trades’ Council and -asked the Council’s moral support and coo-peration in securing improved conditions of employment. Tho Council considered that the conditions under which the jockeys laboured called for immediate redress, and the following motion was carried: —“That this Council accords its hearty support to the Jockeys’ Association in endeavouring to get a modicum of fair play for their members. ' ORGANISER APPOINTED. BLENHJEIM, This Day. Marlborough Chamber of Commerce decided in connection with its scheme for the development- of the resources of the province to appoint Mr Will Lawson, the well known journalist as organiser.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 April 1920, Page 3
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189TELEGRAMS. Hokitika Guardian, 17 April 1920, Page 3
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