GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 August 1915, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

KXPORT OF STOCK, By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Saturday. Following on another advance in the retf il prices of beef and park, the Auckland liutchers' Association telegraph.'d th" Premier urging the (iovermncnt to pi'ohibit the export of live fat stock to Australia, which had laused an abnormal rise in wholesale prices and is similarly affecting retail prices. Wellington, Saturday, extraordinary gazette has been i-.,i.cd to-day prohibiting the export of she.,]) and cattle without tho consent of the .Minister of Customs, which will not. be given without a statutory declaration as to the ultimate destination of the animal^. ARisrauT.it)\ corirr.

Wellington, Saturday. -V <f <■ |ui t:i ti on consisting of Messrs John 'ltigg, M. l.aracv (secretary of t!u* X'-u Zealand (Shearers' Association) and D. iMoriarty (secretary of the Furniture Tr;ide Worker,' Union I waited on Mr. Ma.,,ey .to-day and asked that the Ar--I.iti;itinn Art be -imended so as to ; iov:de that where an agreement sati-.-fa.tory to employers and employees throughout the Dominion was arrived ar in one ecntre it -JioiiM he registereil a- a Dominion agreement, instead of the Conciliation Council having to sit. ill various centres:. The deputation also iWkcd that individual citation of em-, ph.vers should he abolished and n paper ndvertisiinienls should siillice. 'dr. Jla.»M\v. replying, s aid a. tremendous amount of important legislation arising '.Hi of the war bail to be ilea It. with, 'nit h 1 k.»ii!.l «»k the labor Department to diaft a short Kill which could 'be thresh. e-1 out- 'bv the l.a'hcr Hills {'o!ii:iiil'ci> a "i l>r.tu«li| down in 11,.- House at the e'.'f iti the session.