NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 16 August 1917, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

EFFICIENCY BOARD RESIGNED.

WELLINGTON, this day A statement is published this morning that the members of the Efficiency Board have resigned. REV. HOWARD ELLIOT’S CHARGES. \ - COMMISSION’S POWERS EXTENDED. WELLINGTON. Aug. 15. The powers of the commission set up to inquire into certain charges against officers of the Auckland Post Office have been extended to include poyrer to inquire (a) Whether correspondence addressed to Post Office Box 912 at Auckland has been corruptly or improperly suppressed or detained by the officers o£ the Post Office; (b) on what grounds the Military Censorship has been established over the correspondence of the persons using the said Post Office box. His Excellency’s warrant proceeds “I do hereby further direct and declare that nothing in the said warrant of July 25th, 1917, or in this present warrant shall so operate or be so construed as to authorise any inquiry into the establishment, organisation, authority or practice of the system of military censorship existing in this Dominion during the present war, save so far as any such matters being relevant to th e inquiry authorised by the said .warrants may be voluntarily and with due authority disclosed by the officers of the said censorship in the course of that inquriy, and save also the nquiry hereinbefore expressly authorised, as to the grounds on which such military censorship has been established on the correspondence of the persons using the Post Office box aforesaid.”

SPIRTING. GRAND NATIONAL MEETING CHRISTCHURCH, this day The Grand National Meeting of the .Canterbury Jcokey Club opened in beautiful weather to-day. The attendance is e xcellent and the going good. Hunt Club Cup—Kaupokonui 1, Wellwood 2, Golden Butterfly 3. Scratched —Handsome Boy. Won by half a length. Time 2.22. Trial Hurdles —Dionysius 1, Compulsion, Siss Sation 3. All started. Won by. a long heck. Time 3.22. Grand National Hurdles. —Sleight of Hand 1, Sir Solo 2, Sir Fisher 3. Scratched St. Elms. Won by six lengths. Time 4.49. ..