DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 October 1920, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

SHIPPING OFFICERS' GUILD. By Telegraph—Pro:-, Association. Wellington, Oct. 28 The conference of shipping officers concluded in Wellington yesterday. It was resolved to register as a guild. The membership to date is 350 and officers have yet to be elected. The guild lias received the approval of the emplovers. TYRE TAX PROTEST. Wellington, Oct. 2S. It is understood that the 'New Zealand Aiitoriobilo Union has approached the Government suggesting that, a tyre tax V instituted to create a fund for the formation and improvement of roads. The Wellington Taxi-owners' Association has forwarded a letter to the Prime Minister protesting against the tax, as it will be a further burden on tnxiowncrs throughout the Dominion. The committee points out that the incline from the industry is controlled by lojai bodies, who act the fares to be charged, and therefore the taxi-owners are not in a position to pass the extra charges on as are other businesses. It requests that action be withheld until after the Dominion Conference.

SLY GROG HORRORS. Invercargill, Oct. 2S. Jas. Barnet, boarding-house keeper at Woodlands, was .sentenced to two months' imprisonment for keeping liquor for sale in a no-license district, and liis wife ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. Accused admitted that his wife an.i daughter had received cheques for variout amounts from a boarder, but denied that the man was in the horrors. Sergeant Eccles seated (hat the man waa now an inmate of a mental hospital and that another man found in the kitchen on the night of the raid had since died of alcoholic poisoning.