GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 243, 4 March 1913, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

j CROWN LANDS CONTROL. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Monday. ! The conference of Crown Lands C'orn- , missioners opened in Wellington to-day. ■ It was closed to the press. It will deal . with matters of the administration and : control of Crown and settlement lands with a view to effecting improvements where possible. TEACHERS' SUPERANNUATION. Wellington, Monday. [ Under the Public Service Classification and Superannuation Amendment Act last session it was provided that those teachers who were in the education service on January 1, 100(5, when the teachers' superanuation scheme was first started and had neglected to come into the fund should be given the option of joining under certain conditions. The Act gives such teachers six months in which they can exercise the right, but already more than three of the six months have elapsed and only a very small number of teachers have availed themselves of the provision. The department is of opinion that teachers, especially in the remote districts, are not aware" of the amendment having been passed. A LABOR RALLY. Wellington, Monday. A Labor rallv was held in His Majesty's Theatre last night, over 2000 being present. Mr. Tregear presided and the following resolution was carried, amid cheers: —"That this mass meeting of Wcllingon citizens expresses its intense satisfaction at the splendid results attained by the unity conference and endorses the basis of unity arrived at. It enthusiastically approves of the decision to amalgamate the forces of the working class, and pledges itself to do all in its power to assist in bringing the. union of the Federation of Labor and the Social Democratic Party to a successful issue, thereby winning industrially and politically for he workers." MR. HERRIES ON TOUR, Oisborne. Monday. Mr. Hemes was officially welcomed at Gisborne this morning, the speakers , including the Mayor and Sir James Carroll. Mr. Hemes, replying, said he thought the members representing this portion of the East Coast wore on the other side of the House. The East Coast railway was not a party question, and they could sink party and get the best done for the district. As regards the. railway they could not afford to slop and would carry it on as far as means allowed. ]■ Regarding rolling stock he said the Government had a large building programme and would see something spared for Gisborne. He thanked Sir James Carroll for the assistance he had given him in Native affairs, which subject he intended dealing with in an address that evening. AN ACTIVE RESISTER. Crevmouth. Monday. Robert Sample, tor failing to give the age of his son to the defence authorities, was fined M. Somple said that lie absolutely refused to give the information on the grounds of the alleged improper methods adopted to obtain the same.