GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 262, 15 March 1911, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

A STORMY PASSAGE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Gisborne, Tuesday. The scow Waikonini arrived from Tauranga after a stormy passage of fourteen days. The second day out the vessel struck a S.E. hurricane and mountainous seas. The forward centreboard was carried away, and the pumps had to be worked day and night. The vessel was blown to sea, and was for seven days out of sight of land, and brought up opposite Mercury Bay. The water tanks having been flooded, the crew had to drink brackish water. LOCAL INDUSTRY IGNORED. Christchurch, Tuesday. Replying to inquiries made by Mr. T. E. Taylor, M.P., on behalf of local engravers, as to the tender accepted for the supply of Coronation medals to be presented to the school children <of the Dominion, the Minister of Education stated that after consideration of all the circumstances the Government de-' cided to accept the lowest tender, which was for imported articles. The Trades and Labor Council has telegraphed to the Minister asking if this decision is final, and, if so, if the Minister expects parents to allow their children to wear them and advertise to the world that New Zealand's craftsmen are incapable of doing such work. HANDLING FROZEN MEAT. Gisborne, Tuesday. The chairman of the producers' meeting recently held at Wellington has asked the Hon. T. Mackenzie to cable to London to ask if the million to be spent on the West India Dock includes improvements for handling frozen meat. UNSATISFACTORY MILK SUPPLY. Christchurch, Tuesday. A batch of milkmen was before the court, charged with having sold milk not up to the standard required by law, and several were fined. The magistrate said there was a very heavy penalty for a deliberate offence, but the variation of milk was due to many causes. The law threw on the seller the onus of keeping milk up to the standard, because the consumer was absolutely at his mercy.