VARIOUS DOMINIONM ITEMS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 December 1911, Page 5

VARIOUS DOMINIONM ITEMS.

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DUNEDIN WOOL SALES. •, DUNEDIN, Tins Day.—The first wool sale of the season was held to-day, when there was a very representative attendance. Bidding was keen all round., Light conditioned lustrous wool met with a particularly ready sale. The prices all round were considered very satisfactory. A shilling was the top price realised so far.

TIRED OF ARBITRATION. , V DUNEDIN, This Day.—The Otago Coal Miners’ Industrial Union, by 250 votes to 115, decided to withdraw its registration under the Arbitration . Act.. This decision affects the Kaitangata, Green island, Waironui, Alexandra, -; Mata ura and Nightcaps mines. TEACHER’S SALARIES. WELLINGTON, This Day.—A new,, and for school teachers in the Welling-; ton Education district, a more convenient system of monthly payment of salaries is to be adopted. Under the, present arrangement, teachers are paid bv separate cheques sent from the Head Office, Wellington to head teaf chers who distribute them to. staffs. Under the new system each amount will be deposited monthly at the Bank of New Zealand, which will _ arrange for the distribution of credits to branches. The head teachers wm present cheques (supplied by the Government) to staffs who will \ present their own drafts to the banks and receive their due salaries. ■ V DE4.TH FROM EXPOSURE. WHANGAREI, This Day.—The police have been advised that William Bishop, a gumdigger, wa s found dead near Kirikiri, Bay of Islands. Ho had been ill and wandered away and died of exposure. ALLEGED FORGING AND UTTERING. WELLINGTON, This Day.—Mr. Granville Hunt,' formerly in business here as an indent merchant, who has been wanted since July of last year and was arrested at Kikihihi on Monday. was to-day charged with having in*July, 1910, forged the name of W. H. Nash to a promissory not© for £159 7s and uttered the same to Wright, Stephenson and Co. He was remanded until the 27th, bail being fixed £l5O. SPORTS PROTECTION LEAGUE. HASTINGS, This Day.—A meeting was held in Hastings yesterday afternoon for the purpose of forming a branch of the New Zealand Sports Protection League. Sixty were present representing all branches of sport. It was decided to form a Hawke’s Bav centre. There are stated to he 10.000 members of the League in Hawke’s Bay. The .election of officers resulted as follows : —President, Mr. G. P. Donnelly; Vice-Presidents, Messrs E. H. Williams, F. L. Logan, Geo. Hunter, M.P., Frank Gordon, G. R. King, H. M. Campbell, M.P., R. D. McLean, Leonard Storey and W. H. Hartgill.