TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1922, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

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i FREEZING WOK KICKS PROSECUTED. CHRISTCHURCH. July 13. } At tho Magistrate's Court, the In- | specter of Awards proceeded against I members of the Freezing: Workers' I'liion for allegedly taking: part in a strike, a penalty of C 1 If hemp' claimed from each. Tin* first ease taken was against Georgge Collistcr, an employee tvilli t!i" North Canterbury Farmers' Works. Kaiapoi. I .enggtliy’ evidence was pi ven r. w .; iidiiie what had happened at four works in the vicinity ol ( liristt•' t:r: 1 1 . It was admitted defendant vr,.; t’ e last freezing: chamber hand to Ivin, at-Kaiapoi, and if was possible I e mip! ' l ave been driven out through intnii < ion. . : re crick Charles Ellis, Secretary ol the Union. said he had made statements to the elfect that tho l nion know nothing about the matter. Ti e Magistrate, .Mr Wyvern \\ itsou, said: "That is a statement that makes cii" think, and think seriously. It the I'nion is supposed to control its members, and does not, what is the use of preference to unionists. To Mr Thomas (Counsel for defendant): Witness said he had given no instructions to strike. Counsel submitted that it a certain par; of the men left work, and inti-' undated the rest, the latter could no 1 he lined, as parties to a strike, li i there had been a strike at all. it had been a sectional one. | The Magistrate reserved his decision in ‘his and in a second ease. The remaining: cases were adjourned until his decision has been given. THE WILTSHIRE. AUCKLAND, July 14 It is reported that ns n result of had j weather, the middle portion ol the j Y\ llts'dre wreck has broken away Irom j the forepart and sunk, the only part: visible at low water being; the bridge, j Tl e forepart of the vessel remains fast | on the rocks. KACINC CONFERENCE. WELLINGTON, July 13. Tic Conference approved of the following: resolutions of the committee: "That the President he requested to iliaw the attention of the Minister for Interna! Affairs to the umlesirahility of altering: the proportion ot racing: and trotting: totalisator licenses ns litpresent fixed, until such time at least as the whole question of totalisator li(eases is nggnin revived in its entirety. "The Committee recommends that in future when a dates committee is appointed by the ( onfereiiee the chairman of committees should Ik- appointed for the year hv the committee, and that all matters to he dealt with by the dates committee shall, as tar as passible, he submitted to the chairman cf the committee at least fourteen days before un’v meeting: Lliereol. \ Dates Committee was elected as follows: W. E. Hidwcll, 11. Lowry. J. S. McLeod. P. Miller, the Hon Sir I'.. Mitchelson. J. 11. Perrett.

Til IKK NOUS A DETECTIN'E. WTCIjMXOTON. .Inly V.\. Ai 1 href o'clock this morning, Chief Dleetivc Kemp was awakened liy a noise in liis nmiii. Switching on a lie found a man standing l>y tinbad. ’ Tim intruder throw » s ‘ ont bottle ai Kemp, narrowly missing .Mrs Kemp’s bead. The man bolted and Kemp gave elm si- in bis pyjamas. Alter riintti n«i a distance ot a fpiart-r ol a mile, be caught bis man who later was taken to the police station. This morning the .Magistrate reinamled till next Wednesday a man named David Davies. IU, on a (liaise ot breakine, entering and stealing articles valve d at L*<> from Kemp’s dwellin'*. Kemp and a friend bad been to the races ' and there was a large sum of r-nmv in (be Imnse. 1 ' A SKA EXDEIMKNOE. WK'I.I,I N r (!TON. July 14. Tin* steamer (llanens. which arrived here from N’onmca. reports that at. Walpole Island it was found a boat containing three men, lirvant. John, ston an | Meieklejohn film last a Dmmdinito) had left, on an lld miles trip and advice wiu received by pigeon thatthey were in trouble and wanted assistance. A lone s eareh was made the islands in the vicinity of Now Caledonia without result, and as tin- men bad been away fourteen days it was feared they must la- lost. On returning to Noumea, they tound Die boat there, but the men had bad a very bad time, mving to want of water. They had had weather all through and it was astonishing that the lent had kept afloat.