GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 177, 25 January 1912, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

THE TOTALISATOR COMMISSION. By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, January 24. The New South- Wales Totalisator Commission met this morning and took the evidence of Mr. Wanklyn, secretary of the C.J.C. and the Racing Conference, Police-Inspector Kiely, the Hon, C. Louisson, president of the Metropolitan Trotting Club, Mr. Morris, secretary of the Trotting Association, Mr. Boyle, chairman of the C.J.C. All supported the totalisator as against bookmakers. The commission this afternoon inspected the racecourses at Riccarton and Addington, and will sit again tomorrow. It leaves on Friday for Dunedin. AN ALLEGED RING. Blenheim, Yesterday. A quarrel has arisen between merchants and agriculturists. It is alleged that the former organised a ring to boycott outside buyers of chaff. The cutters were warned not to cut for outsiders on the penalty that they would get no work from local firms. The price of cutting was raised to 10a 6d per ton, an advance of 3s 6d. This advance was returned to local firms, but not to farmers and outside buyers. A special meeting of the Farmers' Union will be held on February 3 to consider the situation. ~SALE OF AIR-GUNS. Wanganui, Yesterday. A local tradesman was fined 20s and costs for selling an air-gun to a boy under 16 years of age. The defendant pleaded ignorance of the law. The magistrate spoke strongly, and said that the law was very emphatic, and expressed the opinion that parents should be made liable for allowing children to have air-guns. SUMNER-CHRISTCHURCH CANAL. Christchurch, Yesterday. The report of the Hon. E. Mitchelson, and Messrs. W. Ferguson and J. E. Watson, the commission appointed by the Lyttelton Harbor Board to consider the commercial and financial aspects of the' Sumner-Christchurch canal proposal, was presented to the board to-day. The commission considers that the excellent harbor, with improvements in harbor and railway facilities, can serve the purpose, of the city for fifty years, and contends that the canal construction would result in a heavy annual loss. FROZEN MEAT IN LONDON. 1 Wellington, Yesterday. Representatives of the North Island freezing companies met to-day to hear a report from Dr. W. V. Robinson on the conditions under which meat is handled at the London docks and* the proposals which have been made for improving those conditions. The proceedings were not open to the press.