SOUTHERN NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 67, 19 March 1915, Page 2

SOUTHERN NEWS.

THE COST OF LIVING. GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES PROTEST. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) NAPIER, this day. At a meeting of Government employees the following resolution was carried unanimously: "That this meeting of Government employees view with alarm the continued increase in the cost of living with no increase of salary to meet the increased demand. Seeing that the greater portion of the necessaries of life ia produced in the Dominion, the Government should take active steps at once to prevent the people of the Dominion being further exploited, by a class who are enriching themselves because of the -war." OPIUM SMUGG-LEES KNED. WiELLINGTON. this day. Two Chinese were to-day fined £25 each for amaggling ashore opium snitable for smoking. ' W.C.T.U. CONVENTION. CHRISTCHURCH, this day. The W.C.T.U. Convention resumed today. The corresponding secretary's report showed 3204 members, and the treasurer's, report a credit balance of £96. The Rev. Dawson spoke on' "Lessons of the Late Poll and Plans for Future Work." FINED FOR SUNDAY WORK. DUNEDIN, this day. Four Chinamen were charged in the Police Court this morning with working at their calling on Sunday, the 7th inst. Mr. Moller, J.P., said most men who came to Court came for not working, but Sunday working offended churchgoers, and must be discontinued. Fines of twenty shillings and costs were imposed on each of the defendants.