DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 April 1918, Page 8

DOMINION NEWS.

•o < ROUNDING I'i 1 SHIRKERS. 1 By Telegraph.—Press Association. ' Wellington, April 22. i During the session several references ] v.-ere made to the < ' rounding up racecourses lor military •fliirkers. Th\, was done at Palmerston, with the result that !)5 per cent, of-Uiose interrogated were able to satisfactorily account for themselves. Of the rest probably not more than naif a dozen were not able to show papers, which , had been left at home. The police recommend that reservists should carry their military documents relating to tjieir identity. ARREST OF SUSPECTED THllfi". Auckland, Apill 2' 1 . At the Police Court, George Carrick. ' alias Jas. W. Walker, on whom £ ICO in cash and bank securities worth nearly £2OOO were iouml when lie was arrested, was charged that being a reputed thiel, he frequented a public place with felonious intent. It was stated that lie behaved in a auspicious manner in a queue outside a place of amusement. The police, suspecting 'him of picking pockets, arrested him. He was remanded for a week. MINERS' DISPUTE SETTLED. Greymouth, April 22. After a month's idleness, the Paparoa ;o»l miners resumed work to-day. The dispute over the sacking oi the nuu 1 Woan has been settled. Woan is to < reinstated, at work outside the nune. Another big strike at the Blackball mine was narrowly averted. It appears that a jtflly taken from a miner on contract was attached to a truck of coal won bv the company's men on daily wages, the company's mark in chalk having been defaced. This led tl«manager to dismiss one of tue mineis. The union took the matter' up, and a strike was narrowly averted. Mr- Seniple is in the district, and a good deal of credit for settling both disputes is given to him.