GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 68, 11 September 1911, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

I SHOWGROUND FOR DANNEVIRKE. ) By Telegraph—Press Association. ' Dannevirke, Last Night. ! \ A special meeting of the Agricultural i i and Pastoral Association this afternoon \ decidied to purcha-'e a line site of twenty ' acres in the borough from Mr. 11. Carl-1 son, for showgrounds, and to erect] buildings at n total co-t of about \ £4OOO. Debentures were freely taken in the room. i AN UNFORTUNATE FrREMAN. Tmiiirii, Last Night. Franeis Lynch, a firemen on the In- ■ dralemai, was charged at the Magistrate's! Court with refusing duty on the trip from Wanganui to Timaru. He put in a plea of sickness. A shipmate supported this, and his appearance jusfci- • fled the plea. The gaolkceper said the i man was ill, and a doctor who was called I in diagnosed the case as one of recent •bronchitis, with sore throat, and his occupation as fireman would aggravate the trouble. Defendant produced a bundle of clean discharges, covering eighteen ; years. Mr. Day, S.M., dismissed the j charge. ! GOVERNMENT WORK FOR UNEMPLOYED. Christchurch. Last Night. A meeting of unemployed this afternoon discussed the Prime Minister's telegram . offering work on the, Midland and Che- . viot railways. The meeting decided, ! without dissent, to a motion to the effect that if the Government guaranteed each man at least £2 per week, the work offered would be accepted. FLAX FIELD ABLAZE. . Palmerston North, Yesterday. , I Owiing to the dryness of the weather, \ I lire has broken out in the flax areas bej tween Linton and Tokoinaru, and promises to be dangerous. An army of fire fighters is out.