DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 June 1918, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

AUCKLAND TRAMWAYS DISPUTE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. As the result of a conference between the tramways employees' representatives and management to-day, the latter agreed to interpret some of the provisions of the new agreement relating to the pay of conductors after they became motormen upon a broader and fairer basis on the same lines aa under the new agreement. SHIP'S CAPTAIN FINED. Auckland, June 5 E. Manson, master of an intercolonial vessel, was fined £2u in the Police Court for entering Whangarei port, which >s not under the control of the Customs, on a voyage from Newcastle to Gisbome. Tho law provides for a penalty of £SOO, but the magistrate said it was not suggested that there had been anything sinister in the defendant's action, as the captain had orders to call at Whangarei for coal, and knew that a permit had been applied for. ' BREACH OF WAR REGULATIONS. Auckland, Last Night. Charges arising out of the escape from military custody in February lost of George Caffery and his subsequent recapture in a house in Au?Kand, were heard at the Polico Court to-day. Esther Rutland and Julia, alias Mary Dickson, Mlvor, were charged with a breach of the War Regulations in having withheld information as to Caffery's wherealbouts from the police. Caffery was an absentee from camp, and was arrested y the police on February 2, twice escaping from custody, and finally being arrested at Newcastle. Evidence showed that accused asserted that Caffery's name was Brown, and, on the occasion of the arrest, she stated he was not there, whereas Caffery was discovered hiding in a.chimney.' Accused first pleaded not guilty, but on the polico withdrawing the' other charges of being a disorderly and idle person and an occupier of a house frequented by reputed Natives, she pleaded guilty. Each was fined £IOO. A NARROW ESCAPE. Auckland, Last Night. While the express from Wellington was passing ,}own the spiral at Raurimu last night a stone weighing about Bib crashed through a window of a second class carriage, having evidently been dislodgd from the cutting. Mr. and Mrs. D. G Cooper, of Richmond, Nelson, had a narrow escape, the missile passing between them.