WAIKATO ITEMS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 193, 15 August 1911, Page 6

WAIKATO ITEMS.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent) HAMILTON, thi3 day. I,i the Magistrate's Court to-day, A. Mnrrwon, carpenter, was lined £lO and i-n-f. for paying less than the union au ml. A. Tisch was fined £2 and costs fi.i accepting less than union wages. In tin ease of Patrick llackett Vallen and i;,:''.ml, laud agents, claiming £OO 19/, ha,l commission on sale of property bci.MuinL' to Richard Reynolds, of Camlii, ;■_■■'■'. plaintiffs' solicitor applied for a iii./ -nit, which was granted, with costs :,_.. iii-L him. ClO 17/fi. At a meeting of llorotiu milk supp!i. r« to the New Zealand Dairy Asaion. a resolution was carried in iauuir of the directors' remuneration ri iiinininp as at present. A meeting of the Mataraata branch of thi Farmers' Union heartily approvedof the proposed co-operative bacon facto/v. Nearly everyone present took ; -i,n.ri's. Messrs. Maisey and Sturges, vlin are standing for election on the direct urate, addressed the meeting A ii/i./i'iii. "Thrt the number of directors he reduced to four - ' was lost. \ meeting of the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce decided to support the i. i borne Chamber in its efforts to have land agents registered for the protection of the public and of legitimate aeents. ]t was further decided to obtain all data, possible on the subject of storage batteries for tramways, and endeavour to arrange for the erection of a town .lock, and improved railway ia-ili-ties between Frankton, Rotorua, and Thames Valley.