DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 June 1919, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS.

SISTERS CHARGED WITH THEFT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Palmerston North, June 13. Elizabeth Jean liose Conrad and Emily Ethel Conrad, .'sisters, were arrested on* the Auckland express train at Palmerston yesterday 011 a charge of stealing £CO l»s, the property of Joe Gett, Wellington. Accused were reminded to-. Wellington. BEEKEEPERS' CONFERENCE. Wellington, June 13. At the Beekeepers' Conference it was fesoßved that all apiaries be registered annually, and that provision be made for the enforcing of a substantial penalty for failure to register. It was decided that a deputation wait on the Minister of Railways to draw attention ;to the unfair handicap placed on. the industry by the present freight charged 1 ,; and ask him that honey be placed on a. schedule not higher than butter. It was also resolved that the penalty for. breaches- of the Apiaries Act be*increased, the maximum penalty to be; raised.- to £2O.

The conference concluded to-dag. Thai officers were elected a3 follows:—President, Mr. J. Allen; vice-president, Mr. W: Watson; executive, Messrs A--H. Davis,, J. D. Adams, B. C. Knight, J Cotterell,; and B. H. Penny; secretary and editor of the journal, Mr. F. C. Baines. PROTEST AGAINST CLASSIFICATION. Napier,. June .13. Resolutions condemning the new classification were passed by the Napier and Eastings branches of the Post and Telegraph Officers' Association, THE FLAXMILL DISPUTE. Palmerston North, June 13. Mr. Newton, Conciliation CommisBioner, has invited the Flaxmillers' Association and the FloSmill Workers' Union to send delegates to a conference en Tuesday next, to be presided over by him with a view of settling the matters in dispute in the flaxmilling industryDRAFTS OF RETURNING TROOPS.. Wellington, Last Night.'

Official advice has been received that an additional 2635 troops, 354 women, and 94 children have left the United Kingdom for New Zealand ports. The the United Kingdom at the beginning of June, and is due at Wellington about July 15 with a draft wliich comprises 758 troops, 154 women, and 31 children,. The Chupra is duo at Lyttelton about July 22, with a draft which comprises 732 troops. The Marama left the United Kingdom on June 0, and is due in New Zealand about July 17 with a draft which comprises 003 troops and nurses, and the Ruapehu is due at Wellington about July It with a draft which comprises 452 troops, 200 women, and 63 children. 'A DRAPER'S BEQUESTS. Wellington, Last Night. The will of the late Thomas Brown, of Brown, Ewing and Co., drapers, has been sworn for probate at £ 140,000. The following public bequests have been made: Trustees of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, for Sunday school jpurposes, £500; Presbyterian Church of New Zealand aged and infirm ministers fund, £500; to the General of the Salvation Army for Army rescue work within New Zealand, £500; Presbyterian Social Service Association, £1000; Knox College Council, £100; Anglican Cathedral, £100; Conservation Society, £100; Barnardo Homes, London, £1000; Art Gallery, £500; Institute for Deaf and Dumb (Sumner), £1000; Jubilee Institute for the Blind (Auckland), £1000; Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, £1000; maintenance by the Presbyterian Social Service Association of the Ross Home, £1000; Society for Protection of Women and Children, £250; Shipwreck Relief Society, £250; Y.M.C.A., £400: Y.W. C.A., £250; Red Cross Society, £500; also £IOOO to tile vicar of the parish of Woollor (Northumberland) for the poor of the town.