GENERAL TELEGRAMS
A PECULIAR PROSECUTION. By Telegraph. —Press Association. Wanganui, Last Night. A man named Hart, who sold fancy goods at the Horticultural Show on the statutory half-holiday, was fined £2 and costs to-day.' The defence was that he was acting in the capacity of an auctioneer, and not as a shopkeeper. TnE MIDLAND RAILWAY. Wellington, Last Night. An inquiry is being conducted by Mr. W. S. Short, of the Public Works Department, into some grievances of the Government's employees at the Bcaleyj section of the Midland railway, One oL the principal complaints among the cooperative laborers there is that con tracts are based on too low a basis. The ( average aimed at in fixing the price of' work is Ss a day, whereas for similar work on the West Coast section of the 1 same line 10s is tfie rate. ~ '
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 220, 18 January 1911, Page 5
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141GENERAL TELEGRAMS Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 220, 18 January 1911, Page 5
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