DOMINION DOINGS

Evening Star, Issue 17080, 26 June 1919, Page 4

DOMINION DOINGS

[Per United Pres3 Association.] WELLINGTON, June 26. General Richardson has ordctred Defence officers to reduce the use of telegrams to a minimum. Ho has announced that those who disobey this order will have to pay tho cost themselves. A fund of £I,CCO is being raised to entertain Lord JeUicce 'and' his men on their arrival here. Tho Minister of Internal Affairs intimates that now the wax is over the Government have decided to curt-adl the postal privileges granted to patriotic" societies as from August. PALMERSTON N., June 26. Recently some flax mills in tho Foxton district recommenced operations, the men agreeing to work at the reduced scale oi wages offered by the Flax-Millers' Association. These mills have now had to close down again, the men, at the instance of the union having downed tools and refusing to work for less than tho minimum of 14s per day insisted on by the union DANNEVIRKE, Juno 26. Snow fell in Dannevirke and throughout the district yesterday and during the night. It was'the heaviest known for over 20 years. Tho countryside was _ covered about 2in deep, and tho outlook for stock is occasioning anxiety,