DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 83, 12 August 1913, Page 7

DOMINION NEWS.

i)A IUV Oil G ANIS ATI ON, [Per Press Association.] Palmerston N.y August 11. A meeting of representatives ol various dairy companies in the districts surrounding Palmerston was held to consider the question of starting a large co-operative concern for obtaining supplies for farmers in New Zealand, and also with the object of handling their produce at Home. One of the proposals is to have a board in London to control New Zealand produce, with an advisory hoard in New Zealand. It is understood that simi Jar proposals will he put before ah dairy companies in the Dominion, with a view to seeking their co-operation. The Palmerston meeting was decidedly sympathetic. If successfully organis ed the movement will be a very hie affair. The meeting was held in camera. PINED FOR SLY GROG. ' Gisborne, August 11. At Port Awanui to-day, Mr W. A. Barton, S.M., convicted a native nam ed Eawaiti Kauai on two charges of supplying natives with liquor. The lino: imposed with costs added, totalled LbO 12s. A FALSE CERTIFICATE. \ 1 Wanganui, August 11. Captain Whalstrom, master of the steamer Putiki, was charged in the Magistrate’s Court that he gave Tlios. Thackeray, cook on the steamer, r

certificate of discharge which he filled in to the effect that that the seaman’,- conduct was very good, knowing the same to he false. The charge if "aid to he the first of its kind in tin Dominion. The cook left the vessel without leave, and after a delay the shin railed with a new cook. On the

rw:t trip defendant made out Thackera.v’s discharge, giving his conduct ar very good. Acting on instructions from the Marine Department, Mi iWalker, Collector of Customs, prose railed. The defence was that Thack

j'M-ay’-; conduct since joining thehshij wa e good, and defendant did not feel iisftif 'd in giving him a had discharge The S.M., Mr Kerr, held that broach had been committed, and fines' Irfem lant £l.