DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 February 1919, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

THE DRIVERS' DISPUTE. Wellington, Last Night. At a meeting of the executive council of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants to-day the following motion was earned: "This council having heard the report of its delegates on the transport workers' advisory board, wish to extend its sympathy with the drivers in their reasonable demands for an increase in wages, and wishes them every success in their ell'urts to obtnin a living wage based on a forty-eight hour week, and is prepared to support them in their efforts. RETURNED SOLDIERS AND POLITICS Auckland, Last Night. The Auckland Returned Soldiers' Asiiccii't'un ai; a largely attended meeting to-night decided in favor of political actio:: and the necessary alterations of the constitution to csabie the association to participate ir. positser.'. r.ffiibs ALLEGED ASfKVCLT Auckland, Last .Sight. A rnas. named W. Anderson, a 3oMier, I was adnvlted to the hospital, tonight B'>ri'ering from a fracture of th> base of the skull. Anderson >c app -| .reniry dying. The injury ii believed to have been caused by r. bid.v, ai-.d Hit police btve arrest«d the alleged assailant on a charge of assault and causing actual bodily barn?. A LICENSEE FINED. "•lvcreargili, Laai ISsgKi;. Sarah McLeod, licensee of the Great Western Hotel, Riverton, was fined £lO aad costs for permitting drunkenness on her prersisos and refusing to admit a constable oa November 8, the false peace day