DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 September 1918, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS.

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®iy Telegraph,-—Press AssneJafiafc Loudon, Sept 27. Tilt' Victoria Cfos- has tern swarded 'to Sergeant £- C. Travis, late of the Utago Liegimeni. lie volunteered to destroy au impassable wire liloc's. lie crawled out at daylight m «)osa proximity to enemy posts i>r.>l stieccssfriily destroyed the ldock •» >itf bomb?, enabi- ■ in« attacking parties to pass. A few minutes later, two encm.v iiuicuhie-guiis k'ld up o:ii! of our bombing parties, endangering the jqeews ol tlic whole o[r.'::!lioii. Travis, utterly disregarding danger, rushed the position, killed Hie crew, and captured ths guns. An enemy oilicer and three men attempted to • rotate the guns, but Trnvis killed them ' ingle-handed. Travis was killed twentyfuiir hours later, when going from post lo post encouraging 'the men under a most intense enemy bombardment. — Aua.-X.Z. Cable Assoc. and Reuter. BREED SOCIETIES' CLUB. Palmerston X., Sept. 28. At a meeting of the Breed Societies' Club last evening, Mr. E. Short reported that donations amounting to £l-100 had been received in aid of the fund to ereet building; for meetings of societies. l\\ EEI?PAID TEACHERS. Wellington, Sept. 28. "'Teachers are shockingly underpaid,'' paid Mr. W. I'oster, at the meeting of the Wellington branch of the Xcw Zealand Teachers' Institute. lie went on to say that at present the teaching profession was a blind alley. Those who entered this alley were very poorly paid.

Mr- B. Keen said tho tramwaymen had gone -slow and were going to gain tin increase, and lie was sure teachers could gain an increase by noiiig slow. Miss P. livers said slie would be propared to strike. If the schools were to close for a year, then the people would realise the position. Mr. I'll-' =nid lie hail Almost seen himself an I'lfrani.ainjf secretary of :i TeachciV Trad' Union. Mr. A. MoKonzie said (liat until the teachers got more -money 'there would lie the- greatest rilnculty in keeping tlio ranks full. KILLED BY A TRAMOA'R. Auckland, Sept. ®S. Virginia Smith, aged 35, the' wife of a r-oldior on active service, while crossing; Victoria 'Street last night, was struck by a tramcar and draped 20 yards down the hill. She was dreadfully mutilated and killed, probablv instantly. ALLEGED MALICE. Dnnnevirke, Sept. 2S. An unusual case of alleged malice was before Mr. Dyer, S.M., on Tuesday, when Harry Coventry, headmaster of the State school at. Tcreliunfra, proceeded against T. AT. Stan field, now chairman of the School Committe", claiming £IOO ilamegcs. He alleged that btanficld, at the school picnic in March last, remarked of plaintiff "Look at the old German."

Evidence given showed that plaintiff was horn in Essex",' England. and educated there and partly at Higsi, in Russia, "ir liavc never been in Germany/' he said. Soon after Inking over the head mastership of tho Terehunga School, rumors got into circulation that he was a German. Children attending the school alleged that he drew freOuent comparison 'between the Germans und the British. to the detriment of the latter, and spoke of the school flag as "your flag" instead of "our flag," and from his remarks they considered him a German. On one occasion he allegedly told the scholars that German submarines were better than British, and the boys, after school, hold a meeting find decided to ask their parents' permission to duck tho master in the creek running through the school grounds. This, however, did not eventuate. The defendant alleged that what ii 6 did say was that plaintiff "looked a bit like a German."

Tlie Magistrate, in view of the con- ! flict of testimony concerning the actual tvorda used, gave judgment for defendant, with 12 guineas costs, stating that plaintiff apparently only .had himsel* to blame for tho rumors which got into circulation. He was undoubtedly English, and possibly loyal, but the impression he had conveyed to the children was that he was either a German or lis*? German sympathies. PUBLIC SERVICE AVAR BONUSES. Wanganui, Sc-pi;. 2S. The local branch of the Post and Telegraph Association, at a meeting last night, resolved to place on record its disapproval of the discriminating manner in which the Government dealt with the questions of war bonuses and salary increases in tlio Public Service, and requesting tho Government to grant | tho Post and Telegraph Service war bonuses and. salary increases, on tha samo war tasis as other branches of the service, to take efl'eet from April 1, 1!)] : 8, Also, in. view of the depreciating value and purchasing power of vhe sovereign and the absolute inadequacy of the war bonus to make up the deficiency in actual value of salaries compared with tho pre-war value, the association demands a general increase of not less than 20 per cent, in salaries for all members of the Post and Telegraph Service.