DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 December 1918, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS.

SECOND DIVISION AMLV- [REPATRIATION. By Telegraph.—Pr<«s Association. Ashbnrfcon, Deo. 7Ihe Second Division league passed a resolution expressing dissatisfaction with the Repatriation Sill, endorsing the North. Civs' terbury Eepatriation League's resolution. FIRE AT PETONfj MEAT WORKS. : "Wellington, Dee. 7Tueie was an outbreak of fire yesterday afternoon in, the pressing department of the Gear Meat Company's works at Petr/nf;, doing considerable damage to the two-storey buildings. The company's own brigade and the Petone Brigade suppi;esse& the blaze in half-an-liour, but, the damage will - cause some inconYenier, ce for a ibrief period. DEFAULTERS T0 BE BROUGHT TO . * x HEEL. Wellington, Dec. 7. Since tb' e Military Service Act was passed in. August, 1816, the men drawn in the lift' Hots have totalled 133.739, and of this "number 10,545 were classed as defaulters, Of these 9458 have been sej cured, ®S3 are still under investigation, and 'J364 are the, subject of warrants in tl jb hands of the police. It is understood the Defence Department, tho- agh the war is over, does not intend to let shirkers go scot free. CA'SEmKE MOT&t FATALITY. ©annevirke, Dec. 7. r 'A motor fatality occurred on the Danw ivirke-Woodville Toad on Friday eveni' ig. .T. Wintringham, a stock agent for ',:iio Paliiatua branch of the Wairarapa ' Farmers' Co-operative Assn., formerly stock buyer in Dannevirke for the W'aingawa Freezing Works, was found dead . in a creek beneath his car, which £ad ■ crashed through the side of a IbrWge. . Deceased was a single man.