GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 393, 19 May 1910, Page 8

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

PALMERSTON'S DAIRYING FIGURES. By Telegraph—Press Association. Palmerston North, May 18. During the iperiod ending April of the present season -the New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Dairy Union manufactured MO tons of butter and 112 tons of cheese in excess of the output of the same period last year. The additional turnover, which is due partly to an extremely favorable season and partly to an increased number of suppliers, totals £19,000 for milk alone. The Union paid out £5115 during April. BURNHAM BOYS AT LARGE. Blenheim, May 18, Albert William Foote and Henry Gordon, the two escapees from Burrtham Industrial School, who were arrested in the Pelorus Sounds last week, appeared in the local Magistrate's Court to-day, i charged with theft of a bicycle. Both pleaded guilty, and were' committed to the Supreme Court at Wellington for sentence. | FOXTON WHARF. Palmer sit on North, Last Night. The Foxton Harbor Board to-day decided to send a strong deputation to Mr. Millar, asking on what terms the Government will sell the wharf at Foxton to the Board. ORGANISED LABOii FORCES. Wanganui, Last ght. At a meeting of between forty and fifty iworikers this evening, addressed by Mr. D. McLaren, M.P., a resolution was carried approving of the policy of organising the forces of Labor throughout the Dominion and the creation of a New Zealand Labor Federation with branches in various centres. PROPOSED EDUCATION BOARD CONFERENCE. Wanganui, Last Night. The Education Board decided t'his evening to circularise all Education Boards in the Dominion, suggesting that a conference of delegates (two from each Board) be iheld in Wellington in the third week in July next to consider subjects of interest to the cause of education, notices of motion to be forwarded to the Wanganui Board ibefore Gth July.