DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 March 1919, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS.

CARGO BROACHING, | I By Telegraph. —Press Association. March 24. Walter Murton, a delivery clerk in the employ of the Harbor Board, was sentenced to a month's imprisonment for stealing a pair of boots and a pair of shoes from a case in the wharf shed. Mr F. V. iFrazcr, S.M., said he would have .sentenced 'him to three months hut' for his previous good record. , GAINING STREET RAU Wellington, March 24. As the result of a police raid on a house in Haining street, Gong Kwong, occupier of the premises, was fined in the police court this morning £4O and costs, for allowing fan-tan to be played. Thirty-seven other Chinese were arrested, and 22 were fined £3 and costs each. Pour others who pleaded not guilty were fined also, and the remaining eleven dismissed, tfjEAVE FOR OUR PALESTINE MEN. 1 Wellington, Last NightIn accordance with the wish of the New Zealand Government, the War Office has arranged for leave to ten per cent of members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in Egypt to go to England at the Dominion's expense. , OUR PENSION'S BILI Wellington,. Last Night. At the end of (February 23 the war pensions in force in New Zealand totalled 25,34 a of an annual value of £1,8f>8,213, the average value being £65. The actual payments -through the' post office for war pension* paid in Now Zealand to 28th February last amounted to £1,041,000, to which must be added payments made outside the Dominion. The amount voted for pensions was £1,500,000, and there is payment for March of anything up to £150,000 net to pass through the accounts.