GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 April 1918, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

: DRIVERS' FEDERATION/ By Telegraph.—Press Association'. ,'• l Wellington, Last Night.At the annual conference of the NH, ' Zealand Drivers' Federation, which coin* roeneed to-day, a resolution was pasafed, i protesting against the imprisonment of V P. C. Webb. It was also decided to ajQil?', ,3iate with the Transport Workers" jSui-/-v visory Board. <• "hi L_ ' \"SJ

THE QUESTION OF AI3BNS. ' "Jjj , Invereargill, Last Night. - The Napier Resolution, asking thß ,\- Governor-General to removp from among , J his advisers those of German or Austrian blood, and requesting the Government -' t ! remove those of the same nationalises ' frojn Government offices, was considered. to-night by the borough council, and* a general opinion expressed that there yep,* ~'i a lot to be said for the Napier protest, and that there was room for further Government action regarding aliens gen- * : crally. The matter was referred to a committee which will draft a resolution" ■ v rather less drastic and pointed than the •. 1 Napier proposal. ,

DEMAND FOR WEBB'S RELEASE.

Greymouth, Last Night. At the Borough Council meeting to», . a , night the following resolution was car* ried unanimously: "That the Prime SQaister be informed that the resolution d»* • manding the release of P. C. WeKv passed by a public meeting held lo j Greymout'h, at the instance of the Fed-. eration of Labor, in no way represent* ' '• i | the feeling of the citizens of Greymotttk> v/l the meeting feeing mainly composed of f| members of the union at Runanga, Papa- : * voa, and Blackball, and that the ooubcil strongly approves the action of th» • y Government in administering the Mill* 1 tar.v Service Act without fear or favor,] ' irrespective of the positions held by per* 'i'l sons called up .for service 5 ■ ■ / ' : fijfi

THE EMBARGO ON PROTECTANT ■ LITERATURE. | Oamaru, April 10." The Oamaru branch of the Protestftnv ! 1 Political Association to-night linatli- " mously passed the following resolution; . H ente ; r a most emphatic protest rt against the action of the Hon. the Mai., "jS ! '' of Customs for censoring and'refils- 4 ' -a "ng admittance to New Zealand of Pm! testant literature. The literature 4 question is comprised of widely adver- f <>l nn-lf n i C r llated l )ltblicatio M in the v|j United States and Canada, numbers ot copies of which are already in circul*. tion in the Dominion. They conuin histoiical facts_ and reprints from reeoir. £ m«nl joiinia.r, and their circulation wil 4 o of peat use and benefit to tile PrOt /j testants of this country. The suoures- ' "°n of such literature'in the inteS " of the Roman Church constitutes an in. ' vasion of the rights and liberties of every Protestant and is a menace to our security and well being, such a, call, for the most strenuous imposition and we respectfully, hut earnestly tp! N quest the Prime Minister to eausV the , embargo to be removed, and the liter*. • ture admitted. : v