NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 247, 8 July 1915, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

NURSES ON HOSPITAL SHIP. SO PRESENTED WITH BADGES. WELLINGTON, This Day.Ef.gkiy Nf-v nurses tv^o are leaving wirh the Hospital Ship )wer e this afternoon presented ■ with jofilcia.l badges. The ceremony was* largely amended, n.nd the p'resomta.tions were made by Mrs Massey, speeches being delivered by the Hens. Allen and Rhodes. PRICE OF BUTTER. DUNEDJN, July 7. The price of factory butter has bee* raised one penny per pound from today. The retail price is now 1/8 per pound. In announcing the increase in price, the Taieri and Peninsula Milk Supply Co. states: "Owing to the batter famine in the Dominion we are compelled to protect ourselves in regard io supplies for the public by increasing the price.'YOU&G MAN POUND DROWNED. DUNEDTN, July 7. Whilst coming up Victoria Channel this morning, the crew of the tvg Plucky observed a man's body float hog near the cement works. On removal to the morgue, the remains wcrs idautified by Mr. Daniel Taylor, of Canaongate Street, as those of his son Thomas, ogvl 22 years. Deceased was last seen aUvo at 7 a.m. on'.May 10th, when he left home to go to work at Hillside Workshops, but failed to put i» an appearance. FEDERATION OF LABOUR ANN UAI - CONFEREE CE. WELLINGTON. Jaiy 7. At the Labour Congress to-day tlie only remit dealt with whs one from the Napier carpenters and joiners, urging the Congress to convene another conference of bo:;a fide organised Labour, representation at which should be confined to bona fide members of the ergansations they represent, and who shall be working at'a trade or calling. No person to bo allowed to be prescDt who is getting his livelihood from organised Labour in any capacity, such conference to draw up a form of organisation which will consolidate the Labour forces of this country. The remit was lost. COALITION PROPOSAL. FURTHER NEGOTIATIONS. WELLINGTON, July 7. No announcement was made In the Hous e or elsewhere to-day concerning the National Cabinet proposal. This does fco-t • necessarily mean that the last iuis been.heard of it. Sueh, at siiy rate, is the opinion expressed by members vrhp should Uav e some Knowledge of the factsjo-a. ■ahich io base an ©s:a--ion. It is nnderaioid tlrat negotiate.*have iiot 'yet been finally broken c£V but-'it ig also understood tbat the o-k- of ibe nn4o* being <?r? n.M ■->? tfco b»3t. : - ■ - ■■-'■:-