TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17321, 22 May 1918, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

• (P*a Umitxd Pbims Asbocjiatioh.) AUCKLAND, May 21. A jury awarded William Edgar Phillips £681 damages against the Auckland Tram, way Company in an action for damages for injury caused by a collision between a tramcar and a lorry. The company intimated that it would move for a new trial, on the ground that tho verdict was «-gnin«fc the weight of evidence. PALMERSTON NORTH, May 2L The Palmerston Friendly Societies' Council has passed the following resolution:— " This meeting urges on the Government the just claims of the friendly societies for the payment of contributions on behalf of all members on active service, as the lodges, having stood loyally by the members on active service, now realise that the call upon \ the membership is causing a severe strain on the remaining members in the direotion of tho payment of the contributions of those called upon to proceed to the front." OAMARU, May 2L The Opera House was packed to tbtf doors to-night to hear an address by tha Rev. Howard Elliott (organiser of the Protestant Political Association). The speaker received an enthusiastic hearing, and was frequently cheered by an orderly meeting. The following resolution was carried unanimously This meeting of the Protestants of Oamaru expresses its strong adherence to a national system of education, and its disapproval of grants in any form to denominational schools. It calla ' upon the Government to withdraw all ooncossions and scholarships already made, and so preserve tho integrity of the national system."