GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 115, 4 November 1911, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

FIREMEN" SENTENCED. By Telegraph —Press Association. Auckland. November 3. At (lie Police Court. Francis Wallace and Peter (Ira ham. two firemen employed on the Makura. were charged with resisting and assaulting Constable Dwvcr, and were sentenced to six nionths' hard labor. FIHTI'-IiROVYERS' CONFERENCE. Motueka, Yesterday. At the concluding sitting of the Fruitgrowers' Conference, resolutions were passed: That the Orchard and (larden Pest Act be more vigorously enforced .in the direction of compelling efforts 1 to bring fungoid and insect pests under ? subject: that the result; of tests cou- ' ducted by the Agricultural Department 1 be published in the Journal of Agri- ' culture: that the principle of fruit areas , be continued: that the. floverninent be ' asked to olVer a reward for a permanent ' cure for woolly aphis; that commercial orchards be registered: that Xew Zea- ; laud wines be exempted from the, operations of the Licencing Act and South African wines be placed on the same footing a< Australian wines: and that commercial nurseries be registered. The next conference will be held in Wellington next May. WRECKAGE EXPLAINED. Auckland. Yesterday. Tie' wreckage reported from tlicCrcal Harrier I-land proves to be an old meat ea-k. thrown overboard from the island (lading x-hooner l>abel. and some drift timber. P.. h.-.s no connection with the mi—big barf|ue Mary Isabel. p.ettint; at trentitam. Wellington. Yeslcrdav. W. J. Drew and J. McCr-.'e were fined C2li and co-its on a charge of illegal bet tin'.' at Trent ham at the last race meeting.