DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 October 1934, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] LIQUOR BOTTLE LABELS. WELLINGTON, October 11. Dismissing the appeal of T. and W. Young and Company from the decision of a Magistrate convicting them of a breach of Section 209 of the Licensing Act in respect of the labelling of wine bottles, Judge Reed said that it was not sufficient compliance with the Section to affix a separate label with the bare words, “bottled in New Zealand,” and the name of the bottler. It was the label descriptive of the contents that must bear that inscription.

WELLINGTON WORKS. WELLINGTON, October 11. A recommendation that the Council raise a loan of £159,799 for necessary works was submitted to the. Wellington City Council t'o-night by the Works Committee. The projects contemplated included £81,299 for street works, and £71,000 for stormwater drainage and sewerage.

It was decided.to forward the proposals to the Government Loans Board to ascertain on what terms the Board would sonction the raising of a loan, the matter then to be placed before the ratepayers.

ADVERTISING TIMARU. TIMARU, October 11.

At a meeting of citizens to-night, at which an address by Mr G. Stewart, publicity manager for the New Zealand Railways; it was decided to undertake an extensive advertising scheme for Timaru, at a cost of £350.

Mr Sterling and other speakers stressed the advantages to the town from a holiday and industrial point of view, and Mr Stewart was of opinion that the town possessed advantages not evident at other watering places in the (Dominion.

WATERSIDE DISPUTE. AUCKLAND, October 12

Owing to the reduction by two men per gang of the number, employed in loading the coastal ship Waipiata, work in her has not been accepted by the Auckland Watersiders’ Union. After the ship’s southern cargo had been discharged, the eight-men gangs were reduced to six for loading, but the men working the ship would not accept employment.' About 80 men are affected.

'Phis morning, a call for labour brought no response, and the ship, which was scheduled to sail at nine o’clock to-night, for Wellington and South Island ports, remains idle.

ASSAULT COMPENSATION. CHRISTCHURCH, October 11

Damages amounting to £127/5/6 were awarded Walter George Hill, manager of the Self-Help Store in Beckenham, who proceeded against Trevor Lyall Evans, in the MagiS'trate.’s Court to-day. The facts had all been proved in recent criminal proceedings in the Supreme Court for assault, in which Evans was fined £5O. On the night of August 8. Evans, wearing a mask, went to Hill’s shop, called him to the door, and struck him blows on the head, finally breaking a bottle of kerosene over his head. Hill suffered severely from shock, and has not yet fully recovered.

BAPTIST CONFERENCE. WELLINGTON, October 11

This morning’s session of the Baptist Conference was devoted to foreign mission work. The financial statement disclosed a favourable state of affairs. The following officers were elected to the Foreign Mission Council: President, Rev. Mr Baird; Secretary, Rev. Mr Lascelles: Past President, W. ’J. Bardsley;' Misses N. Wilkinson, R. M. Guinsford, E. Beckingsale, M. Berg, Mr E. Gage. Revs. Ings, Jenkins, Rollings, Kempton, Turner, and Nicholls, Mrs Anstice, Messrs’*Barry, Handisides; Missionary Auditor, Rev. Jenkins; Missionary Box Organiser, Mr W. Berry; Preacher of Missionary Sermon for 1934, Mr I-I. R. Driver.

UNREGISTERED PRESSES.

WELLINGTON, October 12

Several Wellington printers have received a reminder that the law reqires them to register tjieir presses, thev being each fined the minimum of £5.

The police said that a number were reputable printers, but some were not known, and one had a press in a motorgarage. A number had registered their presses since receiving the summonses.

Mr. Stillwell, S.M., remarked that it was surprising that men in the printing trade did not know the Act, which affected them so vitally. It was not for the Magistrate to question the advisability of the law, he said, with reference to the representations of counsel, when suggesting that the charges should be withdrawn. He had to administer the law as he found it.