LATE TELEGRAMS

Evening Star, Issue 16514, 28 August 1917, Page 8

LATE TELEGRAMS

(Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, August 28. A weli-atteiidei meeting of citizens in connection with the Liberty War Loan wa3 addresre<l to-day by the Prime Minister, Sir Joseph Ward, Mr Luk* (Mayor of Wellington), Mr 11. Beauchamp (chairman ot the Bank of New £oaland.j, Mr Daniel (chairman of the Wellington Harbor Board), and M;* T. it. Wilford. M.P. A motion was passed pledging support to the loan. Among the surscviptioiis is £IO,OOO by the Wellington \Voolleiv,Conipany. Thj annual conference of the Post and Telegraph Officers' Association begin to-day. Twenty-nine delegates were present, Mr Whiting (president) Icing in the chair. Amongst other things, he mentioned that the Bervice was on the evo of reclassification, the question of pay being affected by the high, prices of commodities. Tire membership had increased by 2,905.. Frederick Alfred Roberts plea-dcd guilty in the Magistrate's Court to making false and misleading statements to a "police officer at Taihape regarding hi,J enrolment in the Reserve. He was sentenced to three months' impwaonment with hard labor. _____