LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 38, 12 September 1916, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Post Office has completed arrangements for the custody of aii AA'ar Loan Certificates, and they may .now be handed in for safe keeping at Stratford or any other centre.

Judgment was given to-day in Wellington in the case tga.nst ltdwav.l Kennedy secretary of the AVoollen Mills’ Union charged with aiding the strike at the Peton© Mills. '1 he magistrate held that the evidence showed that Kennedy had aided the strike but the S.M. took into consideration the fact that defendant might have thought ho was acting legally. Defendant was fined £lO. — Press Association.

At the Magistrate’s Court, Christchurch, before Mr \\. Bisbop, S.M., a charge against Henry W. Reynolds was brought under • trie Censorship Regulations, with attempting to evade the regulations by enclosing one letter within another. Evidence was given by a member of the Censor’s staff that he had opened a letter addressed to the Town Clerk, Runanga, and found a sealed envelope enclosed, Defendant made a statement in which ho said the waj was a capitalists’ war. The Magistrate said that even if the evasion of the Censorship was a serious matter, he did not feel incd'imd to punish Reynolds severely, hut e-*ery man should be helping his country and he would sentence him to three months’ hard labor. —-Press Association. Reports the Press Association : The Hon. Russell, in a statement regarding the censorship of films, said that regulations had been completed and would be gazetted this week, in whichprovision would be made for the establishment of a Board of Appeal, consisting of three persons, with the following scale of fees: First, for an examination by the censor there will be a fee of 5s for the first thousand feet or part thereof; second, 2s Gd for every five hundred feet after the first thousand. The same fee will be charged for re-examination of censored films after excision by the owners. For an appeal, there will he a fee up to 10k per thousand with a minimum charge of 80s for each film. Provision will be made for urgency of examinations within 48 hours, when a small additional fee will be charged.