DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 March 1919, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

CHARGE OF PERJURY. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, March 14. A private prosecution on a charge of perjury was heard in the Magistrate's Court to-day. The prosecutor was Krnest McDonald, who accused Lena Cos married woman, of committing perjury during the hearing of a case in which McDonald was convicted of a breach of the second-hand dealers Act for purchasing a ring from Mrs. Cox. McDonald, having lost his iicense, claimed that he merely sold on commission and obtained signed authority from the defendant, who signed his book in the name of Mrs. Clark, Peacock Street. Mrs. Cox denied signing, and the charge of perjury was the result. The case is proceeding. , Later. In tha perjury case at the Magistrate's Court the Bench held there was insufficient evidence to warrant accused being committed for trial.

THE TICK PEST. Auckland, March 14. At a conference between the officers of the Department of Agriculture, farmers and stock auctioneers it wag resolved that the department be recommended to schedule the cattle tick throughout the Dominion, that boards be established in infected districts to deal with the pest locally, that the Railway Department be notified to prevent the infection of animals iu trucks.