DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 January 1917, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

ARRIVAL OF NAVUA. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Jan. 20. There are not cot eases on the Nivua. Tho men generally improved vastly during the voyage, and all appear particularly cheerful, and glad to be back. Major F. H. Lampen, who was in charge of the troops, learned for tho first, time on reaching Port Chalmers that lie had been awarded the U.S.if. He went out to Cairo with the New Zealand contingent from London in lfllO, served on Gallipoli, where he was wounde'd and mentioned in dispatches, and later in France. He now returns sick.

There are two others on hoard who have earned distinction. They are Sergeant Tavender, D.C.M., who belongs to the National Bank at Christchurch, and showed great still nd bravery at Chunuk Bail* while acting as gnide, and Gunner Fleming, of the Artillery, who gained the Military Medal in France for volunteering to take a message and establish communication with another battery which was being shelled, j Lieut. Clark, formerly of the 10th Regiment, who was wounded in the ab-

domen at Galljpoli, returns to New Zealand as instinctor in bomb-throwing and bayonet fighting at Trcntham, Altogether there are nine commissioned officers on board who liave been trainc<y at Aldershot, their mission being to/instruct in special branches, such as bayonet fighting, physical drill, and trench tactics. DISPUTE AT' MEAT WORKS. Wellington, Last Night. A dispute is reported at the Gear Meat VVovks, the freezing chamber hands declining to work for less than 27s Cd p?r .00, and asking for changed hours whereby the. work is only a 1" stated times daily, instead of the present arrangement, which is designed to moot the exigencies of business. ■SPINAL MENINGITIS IX NAPIER. Napier, Jan. 22. , A fatal ease of spinal meningitis oc- ! rnrred to-day. ,The patient came from I Hastings. Strict isolation has been en--1 forced. GOVERNMENT MEAT SHOPS. ] " Auckland, Jan. 22. Following an announcement by the butchers to increase the retail prices of i meat in Auckland, despite the intimation by the Board of Trade that the Government was prepared to give them the option of drawing supplies, from the Imperial stores, and would not sanction any increase in piices, the prc-si- | dent of the Board of Trade now announces that two retail shops under the control of tho Government will be opened in Auckland to sell meat for cash, without delivery, at Id and 2d below the ruling retail prices. The Board is now negotiating for shops, and meantime tins option to butchers holds good.