DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 September 1917, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS.

SEAMEN'S UNION OFFICIALS 'CHARGED.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Sept. 22. In connection with the coastal steamship trouble, Mr| W. T. Young, general secretary, and Mr. F. Howell, assistant secretary, of the Seamen's Tlnion, were to-day served with summonses charging them, separately, under the War Regulations, with inciting a seditious strike. THE SALVAGE CLAIM. Wellington, Sept. 22. During the further hearing of the claim for salvage in connection with the stranding of a big sailing vessel at Wellington Heads, the captain of the barque said it would have been quite possible to hedge the vessel off without the aid of tugs. A HOKITIKA PROTEST. Hokitika, Sept. 2£. The Hokitika. 'Borough Council carried the following resolutions:— "That this council protests to the Premier at the general charges levelled in the Leglislative Council against the conduct of the jury system on the West Coast, and points out that so far as the Westland portion of the West Coast 13 concerned the charges and reflections are without cause or justification; and further, that as the action of the Government in the past in creating several centres on the West Coast for sittings of the Supreme Court has not met with apparent approval and success, it is desirable that the Government be urged to revert to the former practice of making Hokitika the assize town for the West Coast." - "That the attention of the Premier be again drawn to the fact that Westland is without representation in either 'House of Parliament and that he be urg- , ed to appoint a representative to the I Legislative Council."