GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 206, 28 February 1914, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

CLOSING OF EXHIBITION Ity Telegraph—Pi"3s Association. Auckland, Friday. Tile Fxhibiton Commissioners having decided to close the exhibition 011 March 31, a meeting, attended by about fiO stall-holders, almost unanimously carried ;t resolution to ask the commissioners to extend the closing date till after Master, offering to pay 10 per cent, of their takings, based on the February average. The opinion appeared general that unless this concession was in >/: the stall-holders would immediately close their stalls.

POST AND TULEGRAPH OFFICERS. Napier, February 27. A meeting of the Napier branch of the I '".si and Telegraph Officers' Association resolved, in view of the important principal involved in the deadlock with the Public Service Commissioners--That this branch urges the executive to submit to branches the question whether the withdrawal of the impeachment regulations should bo submitted to a postal ballot among members of the association. 1 his branch unanimously favors such a course.

I'.REACIIES OF GAMING- ACT. Wellington, Friday. \\ illiani I'oslier, a tobacconist, was lined £2O to-day for carrying on business as a bookmaker on the premises of two Chinese, who were charged with using their premises as a common (gaming-house. They were fined £2O each. These two had acted as agents for the sale of pak-a-poo tickets for a syndicate which, it was stated, operated throughout New Zealand.

MR. FISHER AT WAIROA. Wairoa, Friday. Mr. Fisher addressed a large audience in the lloyal Albert Hall last «i*M. He dealt largely with the Government policy, defending tile increase in expenditure as being required by the country. He suppoi ted the action of the Government respecting the strike, declarin" that no man bad the right to say that his fellows should not work, lie condemned the second ballot and said proportional representation was not won in New Zealand.

I'l'LbKl! SIIDW. Westpnrt. Thursday. I lie Kitller A. and J*. Association's •second annual show opened to-day in ■>c»utifill weather unil witii a very good attendance. Kntrics considmblr excceded those of lust your. Competition Wits keen in tlic various classes—entile, horses, Hlieep and pigs. There was also a very good allowing of fruit, vegetables and home-made g'oods, and quite an excellent display of flowers. One exhibi tion of l'r„il had 3 dill'erent varieties lora,l .V S™wi. The agricultural and pastoral industry appears to hare made big progress since the opening' of the Kniler factories which arc workiiio within easy range of Westpnrt. "