DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 August 1919, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

COJfCILUTION COUNCIL. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christdrarch, Last Night. An agreement was reached at the Conciliation Council to-day in the Canterbury Motor Car, Horse • Drivers, and Livery Stable Employees Union's dispute. The principal iasue was the question of wages, the union asking a minimum of £3 10s per week, which the employers conceded. Employment of youths was agreed to on the basis of one for each company employing one adult and one for each four additional adults. The Tates of wages were fixed as follows:—18 to 19 years 36s ,19to 20 425, 20 to 21 50s.

CATTLE STAMPEDE ON RAILWAY BRIDGE.

Thames, Last Night. A mob of cattle grazing in a paddock at Parawai broke on t» the railway line ahead of a train that was coming into Thames from overland, about 150 stampeding on the railway bridge over the Kanaeranga River. The train was held up for about an hour in order to remove the cattle. Some twenty beasts, ranging in value up to £l6, were bogged and drowned in the deep mud and water of the riverbed. Salvage operations are still in progress.

AN APPLICATION GRANTED. Wellington, Last Night. Mr. Riddell, S.M., heard an application to strike out the name of the Hon. G, W. Russell, Minister of Public Health, in the Marble Bar case heard on August 14. Mr. MoAsßey, who-made the application, said the order closing the premises was not made by the Alinister, but by the district health officer, Assuming the order was ultra vires the plaintiff had no right of action, as he should have ignored the illegal order. The order, however, was perfectly valid, as it was necessary to prevent the spread of the epidemic.

His Worship granted the application, and ordered the Minister's name to be struck out.

NATIVE HEALTH OFFICER. Wellington, Last Night. The Hon. G. W. Russell stated to-day that Dr. Rangihiroa had been appointed special officer of health for the native race. I RELEASE OF JUGO-SLAVS. | Wellington, Last Night. I The Government has decided to release [ the Jugo-Slayß from any obligation to render further national service. These I men have been compelled to work on the roads and railways under the Public Works Department, being paid the current rate of wages. NAPIER GAOL. j ' Napier, Last Night. I A! representative of the press to-day obtained' permission to make an inspection of the Napier gaol. The reporter | found that the whole establishment was j in a most clean condition, as clean probably, as any hotel or boarding-house in the Dominion. Everything was in "apple pie" order. The building is old, certainly, but the timber is all sound, and no possible exception could be taken to any portion of the building or any of the arrangements. Nothing was fonnd ; that could possibly be construed in support of such statements as have recently been made by Rev. J. K. Archer. A' YOUTHFUL THIEF. Christchurch, Last Night. Claude Thompson, 18 years of age, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court to-day to a "series of charges involving thefts of postal packets, druggists' sundries, electrical equipment, and also forgery and arson, and'was committed for sentence. MERCANTILE MAIfINE FUND. Wellington, Aug. 22. The Minister of Internal Affairs has agreed that £IOOO of the Mercantile Marine Fund collected by the Wellington Commercial Travellers' and Warehousemen's Association during the war be handed to the War Funds Council to be invested, and that a committee be set up to investigate claims in New Zealand. The balance, £5710, has been forwarded through the Government to be distributed by the High Commissioner in London, in conjunction with Mr. James Witt, London manager for Sargood's.