License Safeguarded

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21197, 21 August 1940, Page 6

License Safeguarded

“I want to protect these men who are going to the front and I want to be sure that their work is here for them when they come back,” said Mr P. O. Skoglund at the sitting of the No. 2 Licensing Committee in Napier, when ordering the suspension of a taxi-driver’s licence until his return from the war. Mr Skoglund intimated that all taxi-drivers would be treated on the same basis if they joined the Army.

Compromise Settles Dispute The dispute between the management of Reid (New Zealand) Rubber Mills, Limited, and employees over the dismissal of workmen who were fined in the Police Court for thefts from the firm has been settled by compromise. About 20 employees were convicted, and the firm subsequently gave employment to all except eight. Two or three of these are said to have obtained employment elsewhere, and stop-work meetings of employees at the Penrose works of the company demanded the return of several of the others. The compromise upon which the settlement of the dispute was reached was the return of thi'ee of the dismissed employees.

Jumping to Conclusions Speaking on the working of the Aliens Tribunal, the Attorney-Gen-eral, the Hon. H. G. R. Mason, quoted an instance by which the public might easily be misled as that of an accused who, a fortnight ago, was convicted of endeavouring to send a letter to Australia in such manner as to evade censorship. When the case appeared in the Court the police officer who prosecuted said the letter was one which, in the public interest, could not be read in Court. This statement was merely referring to the language used, which, to put the matter mildly, had a freedom and expressiveness not suited to polite society and of a sort which in Court it is usual to avoid reading aloud. The young man accused was an Australian by birth, although classified as an alien because of his parentage, and the letter was one to his father relating to nothing but his own business.