LOCAL AND GENERAL.
A private cable received in Hawera states that Lieutenant W. .S. Glenn, son of Mrs Glenn, Hawera, has been awarded the Military Cross. During the service at the Town Hall yesterday, a collection was taken up for the dependents of the men who lost their lives in the recent great naval battle, and the sum of £9 18s 8d was handed oevr to the Mayor. A Press Association message from Palmerston North states: At a large meeting of the flaxmill employees' union to consider the Compulsion Bill, a series of resolutions were carried as follows: "We are unanimously of opinion that the Rill was designed to raise a cheap army for protecting the enormous war-profits of the wealthy shirker from just taxation; we pledge our united resistance; and will strike immediately the Act is put into operation."
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 57, 12 June 1916, Page 6
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140LOCAL AND GENERAL. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 57, 12 June 1916, Page 6
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