GENERAL TELEGRAMS. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 09, 11 January 1908, Page 9

GENERAL TELEGRAMS. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

THE ADMIRAL ON TOUR. ' TIMARU, 10th January. Admiral Sir W. Fawkes v and Lady Fawkes, on their way to Mount Cook, spent a few 4>ours in Ttraaru Wdav. The Mayor them" at lunch, and then took them for a motor .ride.' The Admiral also attended a ?}iort social function. His Excellency spoke with gi'atitudo of th'o kindness ho bad everywhere received in Australasia.' He referred with pleasure to the fact that, TimaTu had initiated the New Zealand battlflship fund, providing prizes for shooting, ■ and a VH for the ship. OTAGO DOCK TRUST. DUNEDIN, 10th January. A conference was held to-night between the Otago Dock Trust' and Otago Harbour Board with respect to a proposal emanating from the Dock Trust that the Harbour Board should take over tho business of the Trust, include ing present dock and tho large dock in course of construction with the freezing works at Port Chalmers. After matters had been discuesed in committee it was decided to hold a further meetBREACHES OF LABOUR LAWS. AUCKLAND, 10th January. At the police court to-day Frederick Hitchcock was prosecuted' by the Labour Department for allowing a ■ boy named George Howes to work without a certificate, he being under sixteen* years of age. It was mentioned by the inspector that he had warned 'the defendant, who was penalised to the extent of £2 and costs. Another shopkeeper, ' John Harry Porter, pleaded guilty to having employed two assistants later than' the time- prescribed by section '3 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1905. Mr. Dyer, SM., said the breach was. a rather q)aring on?, nnd inflicted a penalty of J35 and costs. AN IMPORTANT DECISION. ASHBURTON, 10th January. An important by-law- decision was given in the Magistrate's Court to-day by Mr. J. G. Day, S.M., in -the case p'f the Ashbnrton County Council v. •Thomas Rainey, who was charged with driving attraction engine, in a traction engine rut on the Main Houtb road. The magistrate dismissed the information, holding that a county council had no power to make by-la-ws governing roacla whan were uudor the jurisdiction of road boards, <