DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 March 1921, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

PROHIBITED BOOKS., By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, March 30. In the Police Court Thomas Stych, laborer, and Alexander Sherrock pleaded guilty to a breach of the law "which prohibits the importation of certain classes' of inflammatory literature. One had 12 copies of Red Europe and the other 24 copies of a book which the police felt sure would be prohibited when it reached th* censor. Accused stated that the literature was thrown from thd Maheno by an unknown man. They admitted that they gave the Customs officers false names and offered an official £lO to allow them to" throw the parcels over the wharf. The magistrate imposed a fine of £25 each. HOLIDAY DRUNKENNESS. Auckland, Last Night. According to a statement by the police in Court drunkenness during the holidays was abnormal, liquor being procured from “sly-groggers,”* and charges were laid against five men. Joseph Alexander Winters wan fined £5O and Andrew Johansen £3O for selling in the street ou Good Friday, and Norman Alexander Nicholson was fined £3O for a similar offence on the wharf. PAINTERS’ CONFERENCE. Christchurch, Marqh 30. The -onference of the New Zealand Federation of Master Painters, Decorators and Signwriters’ Associations resolved that, in the interest of the industry, a joint conference of employers and employees be held to discuss the question of making a set of Dominion working rules;' thajt the joint conference should be recommended to establish a national alliance of employers and employees, and that t'he alliance should provide a constitution for central industrial governing bodies to administer each industrial district, with area boards to control localities.