DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 December 1920, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

PAY OF WATERSIDERS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The conference in connection with the bonus application made by the Waterside Workers' Federation has concluded. The Federation was offered an increase in wages on a basis of the recent bonus pronouncement of the Arbitration Court. The offer will be referred to the individual unions.

SPREAD OF FIKE BLIGHT. Nelson, Last Night. A fruit-growers' conference passed a resolution that it viewed with alarm the spread of fire blight in the Auckland district, and urged more drastic action, and legislation to give the Department authority to deal effectively with the disease.

HATS STOLEN BY WOMEN. Christchurch, Dec. 21. Probably for the first time in the history of the law courts of the Dominion an order was made by the Magistrate to-day for the suppression of the names of two offenders from the Press reports. The order was made by Mr. McCarthy on the application by defendants' counsel under Section 9 of the Offenders' Probation Act, 1920, which provides that if any person accused of an offence within the meaning of the Act has not previously been convicted of any offence the Court mgy prohibit the publication of the name in any report of the trial.

The case was one wherein a girl aged eighteen and her mother were charged with the theft of two hats from a millinery establishment. Both admitted their guilt and each was convicted and fined £5 and ordered to pay the value of the hats, in default a month's }mnrisonment.

iX OFFENDER FINED. Wellington, Dec. 21. David Henry Wallace appeared in the Supreme Court to-day as a result of his failure to surrender to his bail during the last quarterly sessions. Wallace was ordered by the Chief Justice two years ago to pay certain compensation and in last Hay, when he again appeared before Sir Robert Stout in connection with the same matter, he was given until November 10/ 1920, to find the money. "You t*»ted that order with the utmost contempt," said Mr. Justice Salmond this morning. "You ultimately paid something like £25, but there was still £SB owing. You were to appear on November 10 to receive sentence for your offence and you did not appear, with the consequence that you have had to be arrested. It was not until the threat of arrest that you treated the orders of- the Court as anything of consequence."

For the oflenee_Wallace committed in 1918 his Honor firmed him £2O, in default two months' imprisonment. He was allowed one month to find the money.