RECENT AUCKLAND STRIKE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 81, 7 April 1910, Page 3

RECENT AUCKLAND STRIKE.

AUCKLAND. 6th Apiil. The slaughtermen and floor hands at Southdown Freezing Work*, who went on *trike the other day have betn feived at the instance of the Labour Department with Munmontei>chatging them with striking. The men slaughter meat only for export, and not for domestic consumption in New Zealand, and thus escape coming under the provisions of Section 9 of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Act, 1908, which provides for higher penaltk* than Section 5 of the Act, under which the tharge* againft them are laid. MISCELLANEOUS. BLENHEIM, 6th April. At the Supreme Court a young man named William Barrow was rentenccd to 18 months on each of two charges of assaulting two girls under sixteen in the Awatere district, sentences to b« cumulative. Prisoner stuck one girl up on the mad while she was going to music lessons, and the other he improperly approached while asking for a billy of hot water at her house. BLENHEIM, 6th April. In the civil session of the Supreme Court, Mi*. Andrews, wife of a Flaxbourne settler, claimed £1000 from the Railway Department for injuries sustained in a train collision at Blenheim railway station on 14th June. The department offered £200. but the jury returned a verdict for £550, with cot-t?.