LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 109, 4 June 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The annual meeting of the Xaiunnrnnui Licensing <'/onnnittee will be held at lo-dav. Several applications for wholesale liceuses iu the King Country are to be heard. Our report of the proceedings before the Tara?iaki Licensing Committee should have r<-ad that Mr. T. S. Westou ■ appliecl for the renewal of Atessrv. L. I). I Nathan and Co/s wholesale license. I»y I an error it was stated t'hat Mr. Quilliam represented that Ann. A meeting of members of the National Defence League is' to be held this evening in the Mayor's room (Council Chambers). at 7.10 sharp, -to consider a resolution similar to those being passed throughout, the Dominion at present, to be forwarded to* the Premier, on the subject of uni\' : ;,:Milary training of young men.

| "Veterans of the Maori wars are pre-, seating a petition to Parliament prnyI ing that, having served in the Maori wars and gained a medal for such se *• vice, tlie Government should grant them a pension of ten shillings ;i wevk under the Military Pensions Act, in lien of. and instead of, any pension to wliicii they may he entitled under tlie Old Age Pensions Act, on condition taut such pension lie uncnenniliered by the conditions attached to tlie Old Age Pensions Act as to age, conduct. private, means, or other condition pertaining tu | or suggestive of eliaritnble aid. The petition, which has been largely signed hy veterans in tlie Hawkv's Hay, "Wa-.iga-II ui, and Taranaki districts, is now lying at the nil'ive of Mr. J. C. Davies, where veteran* are asked to call ami affix their signature-?.

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