LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 10, 10 August 1916, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

; A London cablegram reports the death of Lady Victoria Buxton. Mr Riddell, S.M., at Wellington, gave judgment on a non-suit point raised in the civil action, Inspector of Awards v. Edward Kennedy, secretary of the Woollen Workers’ Union, being a claim for £2OO as a penalty for aiding in a strike of the members of the Union. The Union had already been fined £SO, and it was contended that judgment was a bar to the present action, as Kennedy was a member of the Union. The nonsuit point was overruled, and the case will be heard next Thursday.—Press Association. “Is it a fact that young men now enlisting* sons of well-to-do people, are allowed to proceed to camps unattached to any reinforcements to study for a commission?”, asked Mr J. Cl/ Thomson (Wallace) in the House on Tuesday, “and, if so, will the Defence Minister see that for the future every man going into camp is attached to a definite detachment?” .In the absence of the Defence Minister, the Prune Minister stated that he could assure the bon. gentleman that whatever might be the faults of the Defence Department, no preference was given to anyone. There was no political influence, and no unfair advantages were given to any man joining the Expeditionary Forces. He would be glad to have the early part of the question looked into. ,Mr W. T. Jennings (Taumarumu) called attention in the House on Tuesday to a statement in the “Waitara Mail” that a returned ' Anzac soldier who had been offered a job at Awakino, 'went up there, ’ finable to cope with the work. .His employers wrote," 'stating that he' was suffering from a wound in the hip, and was badly battered about; and that it seemed that he ought to have had a pensioh, and needed at least six months’ rest. They had paid all his •expenses at Waitara, and • enclosed,a cheque for £5, to be used for his benefit. Mr Jennings asked the Prime Minister if the man was wounded, as stated, and battered about, and was refused a pension, would he have the matter " looked into? Mr Massey said that ; if, the. facts ,w r qve as stated, he had no hestitation in saying that the man was entitled to a pension-, even if only a temporary one. It was quite possible for a man who applied for a pension to be turned down in the first instance, but to be given a pension when further evidence was given. That might be one of those cases. If so, it would h«tve to be put right.