SIGNIFICANT GOVERNMENT MEASURES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4526, 18 April 1917, Page 5

SIGNIFICANT GOVERNMENT MEASURES.

INTERESTING NEW REGULATIONS. Press Association Telegram. WELLINGTON. April 17. An Order-in-Council has been gazetted declaring the following to be essential industries: the shipping industry. carriage of goods by lnnd or sea, loading and unloading of ships, and the frozen meat industry. Persons acting in a manner to interfere with these services are liable to a fine of £IOO or twelve months’ imprisonment. THE GREEN ISLAND ARREST. ACCUSED REMANDED. Press Association Telegram. DUNEDIN, April 17. Alfred William Coleman, arrested oil a charge of inciting a seditious strike, appeared at the Police Courttins morning. The accused, who pleaded not guilty, was remanded till Monday. Bail was not asked for.

WAIPA MEN RETURN. SECRET BALLOT TO BE HELD. Press Association Telegram AUCKLAND. April 17. Tlie Waip” miner returned to work to-day. They take a secret' ballot to-night or to-morrow on a point in respect- to which there is the utmost secrecy. MASS MEETINGS SUGGESTED. A HASTINGS PROPOSAL. By Telegraph—Special Correspondent. NAPIER, April 17. The Hastings Chamber of Commerce to-niglit, discussing the seriousness of industrial unrest at present manifesting itself in the coal mining districts of New Zealand, passed the following resolution: “This Chamber suggests that mass meetings be held in all centres to give expression of public opinion on the action of the men in.resortino- to the strike weapon during the crisis and, tlie war for democracy and' individual liberty and feels confident that the better sense of the people of tlie Dominion, expressed at such mass meetings, wff l lead the strikers to realise the seriousness of their action and return to work.”