DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 77, 4 July 1916, Page 7

DOMINION NEWS.

WANCANUI'S BACK COUNTRY.

Feb Pbksb Association. * Wanganui. July 3,

Tlie Wanganui Chamber of Commerce are calling a conference of representatives of local bodies between Ohakime and Wanganui, also Parliamentary representatives in the area affected, to discuss the possibility of building a railway line between Kaetihi and Wanganui. This is a sequel to the intimation of the Minister <>t .Railways that a trial survey route could not be carried out owing to the number of surveyors who had enlisted. The conference will discuss the question bf ? 'building a railway under the provisions of the Local Railways Act in the event of the Government not being prepared to , cany out the work. .

DISLOYAL UTTERANCES.

Greymouth. July 8

Many instances of disloyal utterances have been reported lately. Police enquiries led to three men appearing before the Magistrate's Court. A charge against an'ltalian nn employee of the railway workshops, was dismissed. Frank Marsbal, a Red Fed., employed at the* 'Sta'e'"mine's, was convicted and fined Xo. and Nicholas Petersen, a naturalised German, employed,, at Blackball,, for intensely disloyal utteyanc ?s and obscene language, wa/'wnvitfod and sentenced to a month's, itapy>m incut fo'r dbsee'iie language and a inoatb.for disloyalty. C "%;

THE NEED OF MEN. Wellington',, July .3. The Minister for 'lnternal Affairs, in a statement' to-night, made it clear that in cbrisequonce of the «e----pletion of the, manhood of the country for war puvposos, it becomes necessary to enforce a stricter observance of the regulations regarding the issue of permits and passports to leave the Dominion. The men who left for the front| or are-now,in camp .apprp.yhnate <60,000. :„and inrwifl thus made upon IthQf, man hood . .<& ( tiie countrv , makes j It uo iWP?S§£We fcllft? everv man'who! Jan be used in Zealand sljalL p bp| retnjpeflii sequently,|s ep|diti W s,. un,d*'oJ ■M'! 1 ! V 0 ™ rigorous in future. >,;<).,:.•- »i h RISE IN MARINE INSURANCE.

Woilmgtwn, .July •{. An unexpected rise in insurance rates was announced to<lay. Mr 0. It Uendall, president bf tho Underwriters' Association, received a cable from London stating that marine in- j surance via the ; ranean had been increased from thirty shillings to Mm shillings per cent. Replying; to enquiries, local insurance managers are tthrpwi light .nse/thoug-lt qftftqlW "opin^u 1 that, flotsiblft %i&Vtbma,nue a ims jjppea'red in b » "that wheriVGej-man raide(r n was .sosfcj ting in 'thes Atlantic rose and similarly lowered,] when, the danger was removed. 0 t ( m)-.