DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 October 1918, Page 8

DOMINION NEWS.

LABOR AND COST OF LIVING. Wellington, Oct. 2. Labor people state that ikey look upon the Cost of Labor Commission as'a failure. Suggestions in concrete form as to Labor's idea of reducing the cost of living are to be set out plainly before long by a committee set up by the recent Labor Conference held to consider the matter.

Mr, M. J. Reardon, chairman of the committee, states that, certain inquiries have been allocated to different members of the committee, and shortly the committee will be in a position to "state its views as to what should constitute the living wage, and information will be produced to show that increased wages have very little relation to increased prices.

ATTEMPT TO EVADE SERVICEAuckland, Last Night A reservist, named Ernest Alfred Mouldy, has been arrested and handed to the military authorities, on a charge of attempting to evadi service. Mouldy is a single man, 27 years of age, and is alleged to have evaded the efforts of the police at Wanganui to locate liirn. He came to Auckland, where he was arrested and placed in the 01 Camp, from which he is alleged to have deserted. He lived in a hut on an island in the Waikato River, about sis miles below Tuakau, obtaining his provisions from the store at Buckland, where no police are stationed. CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED MURDER. Dunedin, Last Night. At the Police Court to-day,-Mary Jane Moody, charged with the-attempted murder of her husband, Benjamin William James Moody, on September 8, was committed for trial. THE ALLIES' VICTORIES. Wellington, Last Night. The Acting-Prime Minister makes the request to the churches that they shall make recognition in «ome fitting manner on Sunday next of the mercies that are vouchsafed to the nation In the great successes that have been achieved by our armies on the fighting fronts, and especially the unconditional surrender of the Bulgarians to the Allies.

THE MAORI DELAYED. Wellington. Last Night. The Maori was delayed owing to the shortage of two firemen, and will sail for Lyttelton at 4 a.m. on Thursday. ASSAULT ON A POIURUA PATIENT. Wellington, Oct. 2. An ex-attendant of Porirua Mental Asylum, named Hugh Anderson, was today sentenced to a month in gaol for assaulting a patient -of the institution, James 'Simpson, who. has since died. The medical superintendent said that he found no bruises on the patient's face. The assault had not accelerated death. Accused had been dismissed just prior to the assault. Anderson, in his evidence, said that he might have feigned to strike Simpson.ior even have struck him, to frighten him back to his ibed, but the Wow was not more than a mere flip. Hi- had gone to the sick ward to give the new attendant advice and to say farewell to the patients. The M.faia *» * i Bid, that if the assault had !*»( ,l . '•' i ' uted on a healthy person a Sfc? Penalty would have bean ianWl -**'-;-v : -