DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 August 1929, Page 5

DOMINION ITEMS.

1 FARMERS PROTEST. ,By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) PAHIATUA, August 21. . At a farmers meeting, a resolution was carried unanimously opposing the mortgage reduction ratio and super tax. ’ . Vv ) .}• . it was further resolved that the executive take no action in - regard to primage duty, as it affected all classes of the community. The latter was carried on the casting vote of the chairman. One speaker suggested the Government should tax banks and other financial institutions, seeing they had such a successful year and if this year .they got millions out of the (farmer, this time without protest, they would try it again next year.

AN -IMPORTANT CASE

CHRISTCHURCH, August 21

A case of importance to all industrial unions was heard tliis morning when C. S. Trillo, proprietor of Gold Band Taxis, was charged by the Labour Department with two breaches of clie Taxi Drivers’ Award by failing to pay employees the minimum wage and by entering into an arrangement with the same employees, all taxi drivers, to defeat the operation of the award.

The defence was that there whs no employment in the term of the act and that the men all worked, on a. share basis. The decision was reserved,

OUTBREAK OF FIRE

CHRISTCHURCH, August 21

The third .outbreak, of fir© within three days occurred at the Pier Hotel, Kninpoi,' this ‘when a kapoc mattress in a bedroom \yiifs discovered ablaze. There is ,no other damage. The cause is a

THEFT OF BICYCLE,

PALAIERSTON NORTH; Aug. 21

At the Police Court, Robert Joseph Sorenson was sentenced to fourteen days’ hard • labour for the-' theft of a bicycle of a value of £ll. - The police stated the bicycle was taken from the passage way of an hotel.