LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 6, 10 April 1916, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Wellington Press Association message this afternoon states that the Governor has received the King's command that no dinners, reviews, salutes or other celebrations will take place this year on the King's Birfjjjdav.

' The Press Association at Masterton reports that a large public meeting was addressed 'last night by the Petone Woollen Mill girls who received a good hearing. ' The following resolution was carried unanimously: "That this meeting expresses its fervent hope that the mill girls will win their most fair demands,, realising that the question is of national significance, and promising to do all possible to help the workers to win.

A Press Association telegram from Wellington states that in the Rex v. Haynes case, the majority of the members of the Court of Appeal (Sir Robert Stout dissenting), held that the conviction must be quashed, as the declaration relied upon by the Crown as .evidence of perjury omitted all reference lo the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908. The Court held that the form used was not a slight deviation from tho form prescribed under that Act.

Mr R. J. Terry, late of the Tasman ian Department 6f Agriculture, is at present in Stratford, having arrived from the North on Saturday last. Mr Terry, who is an expert in pigs, fodders, a.-:d manures, returned recently from the firing line in Franqe, where he was wounded, so that he has done his duty to his country. Since nTs-re-turn, he resigned his position with the Tasmanian Government, it being his intention to return to the Qid Country, but as information placed before him had directed his thoughts to New Zealand, he is now paying the Dominion a visit, and hopes to lie able to impart valuable information on the lines mentioned above in return for knowledge received. Mr Terry is of opinion that New Zealand has the whip hand on England, and he feels even now inclined to state that he will settle on the land in the Dominion, but he recognises that there is considerable knowledge yet to be obtained of local and climatic "conditions. His-good work in England .was, he assured a representative of the "Stratford Evening Post," generally recognised. His credentials speak for themselves, and special reference is made therein to his abilities as an organiser in the service of the Tasmanian Government in connection with the Launccstou Exhibition.