TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 October 1920, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association.) TWO LIBEL ACTIONS. AUCKLAND, Oct. 1. Two actions for alleged libel occupied the Supreme Court this morning before Justice Salmond and juries of twelve. The plaintiffs are Henry Green and John Meiltle, waterside workers of Auckland, and defendants are the New Zealand Watersiders Workers’ Federation, Jameß Roberts (Secretary to the Association) and the “Maoriland Worker” Printing Publishing Coy. of Wellington. The actions relate to certain statements alleged to have been made at the annual conference of the Federation at Napier last December and published in a pamphlet. In each case £I,OOO damages is claimed.

WAR DISABLED PENSIONS,

WELLINGTON, Oct. 2,

A meeting of war service patients at Pukcora sanatorium, where about 130 are undergoing treatment, resolutionod asking Government to increase the pensions to disabled men by seventy-five per cent, which is the amount of increase in the cost of living since the outbreak of war. The resolution emphasised that the pension hitherto granted to totally disabled men was quite inadequate from the beginning.

PRICE OF GOLD

WELLINGTON, This Day

The Treasury received advice from London that the official price [of (gojld on Sept. 29th. was £5 17s 9d for shipment to India.

BUTTER PRICE. DUNEDIN, Oct. 1. The price of the new season’s make of butter will be increased to about .2/10 per lb, as from to-morrow. It is explained by the factory authorities that the price paid for butterfat since August 1 haß been 2/6 per lb. One of the leading butter factories in Otago and Southland has now decided to charge 2/7J per lb for this season’s make. This means that the retail price will be about 2/10 per lb. The factory referred to had to sell a portion of its output to-day at a loss of 1/ per lb. It is understood here that there is plenty of butter in the Dominion to-day, and it will likely come on the market freely, now that there is a free market.