DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 January 1920, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

ALLEGED SHEEP STEALING. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. The Magistrate's Court at Roxburgh Was occupied on Wednesday and to-day bearing a charge of sheep stealing against Adam Murdoch Mac Donald, manager of the Ormaglade station. The charge related to the alleged theft of 22 sheep the property of a neighboring station owner, and odd; sheep belonging to other neighbors. The accused was committed for trial.

LAND FOR SOLDIERS. Blenheim, Last Night. A meeting of the combined land comtaittees of the Marlborough Patriotic Association and the Repatriation Committee to-day severely criticised the methods'of the Land Purchase Board, and expressed their disappointment at the lack of consideration shown by the Government to the Marlborough claims in the matter of soldiers' settlement on land.

Reference was made to the fact that ast year options were secured over a large area of agricultural and pastoral property and submitted to the Land Purchase Board. Only three properties were acquired and these will be baUc-tted In April Of the properties unacquired several have since been sold at prices much an advance of the original options. FIRE AT TAIHAPE. •a * i Taihape, Last Night. A are broke out in the manure drying Works this afternoon. The buildinl <vas destroyed and other loss was sustained Work will only be delayed about two days The insurances are in the Norwich Union, North British and Royal WAGES OF FREEZING WORKERS. Wellington, Jan. 29. lho Freezing Workers'. Federation has decided to ask the associated freezing companies to review the agreement reached m April, 1919, w ith a view to toereases in the wages paid to all hands The trouble with the slaughtermen at the Ngahauranga works has not yet been adjusted. The men are demandtog increased rates, and pending a setWork Bre seriousl y restricting their STRIKE AT WHAKATANE, Whakatane, Jan. 29. liw n ! yesterday at the fcast Coast Co-operative Freezing Company's Works in Whakatane. It is Understood that the men held a stopWork meeting at 9 a . m ., Md at j. *, Delegates demanded altered conditions ami 3d an hour increase for all labor ftt the works, demanding an immediate reply. The management took up the attitude that it could not treat with tie men while on strike, but if they carried on the work, would confer with them at a given time. The men refused, and it is now a case of awaiting Mr. Sill, general secretary of the Freezing Workers' Union, who is expected hera to-morrow.