DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 March 1917, Page 8

DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

—■ ■» WHEAT GROWING INSTEAD OF CAMPS. I By Telegraph.—'Press Carterton, March 22. i At an enthusiastic meeting of fanners at Carterton last night the question of wheat growing was.. discussed. Mr. Hornsby, M.P., was chairman. Promises were handed in to grow 083 acres of wheat this season. Further meetings are to be held at Greytown, Featlierston, and Martinborough. i It was decided that it be a recommendation to the Government that, during the war," the territorial camp be abolished and farms worked by the older men and young boys. If the latter are sent to territorial camps all the work will be dislocated. The Minister of Railways will be approached by the member for the district, asking that railway facilities regarding the supply of rope's and sheets at the ', laihvay stations of Carterton, Clareville, ; and Dalefield he made" efficient to the i needs of the district at the present time, as in the past difficulty had been experienced in getting .trucks, ropes, and | iiiieets. | It was also decided to recommend to (he Government that ploughmen and Mien engaged in thrashing mills and all essential farm work be exempted from military service. { SUPREME COURT SENTENCES. Wellington, March 22. At the Supreme Court the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) sentenced Timothy Francis Moloney to nine '.months' imprisonment for forgery. Robert Carlton Gray was sentenced to six months on each of two charges of theft, the sentences to be cumulative, l and the Chief Justice ordered him to be detained in prison at Invercargill for three years' reformative treatment; and for escaping from custody the same offender was sentenced to a further month's term, to be concurrent with tue other sentences. Duncan McMillan Roe, charged tfith theft, was sent to prison for six months.