DOMINION NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, 20 April 1920, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS

MARINE ZOOLOGY. Kj TeiCfrnpli Press Association D'.medin, April 19. the chairman of the Marine Hatchery Hoard the Hon. G. M. Thomson, state's the Government grant of £-» fin per annum for a research student will be paid from the time when the appointment is made,. At-present no zoological Miidcnt is available, but professors at nm ,l "' Vi: ' r - ; it.v colleges have been communicated with in tlie hope that someone will be found who is anxious to prosecute research in marine zoology.

THE JOCKEY'S- DISPUTE. Auckland. April 13. Mr. Sheath, secretary of the New Zealand Jockeys' Association, wired to the I remier certain employers were threatening members with severe punishment if they did not resign from the association and asks for an announcement by Mi. Massev that- jockeys have nothing to fear by remaining members. lie adds: '-I icel assured a warning from you to owners and trainers that victimisation is killing all chance, of a settlement will be effective. Will you give members of the association an assurance to protect- them from victimisation pending the settlement, of the <U S . pute."

THE TIMARU DISTURBANCE. Timaru, Last Night. Chinese estimate that the damage done at three fruit shops is valued at. about £2OO, besides which £3(> was stolen from n cash register. The principal shop manager here of the three shops is an American university man, who has been engaged as a journalist in Chicago. His two brothers were with the American Armv and were killed in the war. He enlisted in New Zealand, ijut was rejected.