NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, 25 June 1919, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

I =THE- S.S. MAUNGANUI ’ : iLAST._,'I‘RIP ‘AS TROOPSHIP. - L o b _ “DUNEDIN, this day, ;The Maungani_li haS"'m’ad"e herflast trip as a tl‘OopShi'p‘;. ’l"‘lle"7Vessel',§ after reconditioning _"at Poft: 'Cnal‘mel-s’ will be returned to the Union’ Company, and subsequently employed in the mercantile service. M The new Union steaxner Kaiwarawa is expected to be completed and handed to the owners at the end of July then leaving for Newzealand. The Paloona boundfrom ’Frisco tn Wellingfon left Raratonga on Sunday. .

UNION OF CHURCHES.

i SNOWIVVATV TIIXR>.f&\VERA3.M_ A I» " _ !’ I 'l‘he'HaWke‘s Bay Pljesb3«'tery' r';.~E.oilutioned favoui-ing'the‘ union of7'the }ic;hu‘l:ches., There were two dissent‘ien.ts; land still continues. Snow is falling 'at Tarawera. I SNOW IN ASHBURTON. ’ I ASHBURTON, this day. ' Following heavy rain and hail yes~ lterday afternoon rain fell during the inight, one inch on the lower plains ‘and three inches at Methven and Mt. Hut. Light snow fell this morning. R AND T. CLASSIFICATION. DUNEDIN, June 24. At a largely attended meeting of ‘the Dunedin section of the Post and Tc-legraph Association to-night, r motions were carried unanimously con-1 denining the classification list, especi'-} ally as applied to the rank and file of the service, as absolutely inadequate,’ and demanding a minimum of £45 tog each officer, also asking that the listl be revised innnediately, and the I~e-l vision be I'etl-bspective to April; fur-E ther, that the Government should grant ' a substantial bonus owing to the in-! creased cost of liying, the bonus to be t continued while abnormal prices last, 01' until provision is made by way of ! salal‘_v, the bonus to be apportioned, according to dependents. It was also decided to urge -the executive com-I mittee to call the executive council t.o- 9 ggxther at the earliest possible moment, i and to demand immediate payment of the double war bonus promised by the Postmaster-Genera.l. i