INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14246, 14 March 1917, Page 5

INTERPROVINCIAL.

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DANNEVIRKE, thia day. Mr McCarthy, «jM., lined Harold Welch, ofihe Royal Oak Hotel, Weber, ±550 and costs £5 13« 3d, m default three months', imprisonment with hi,rd labor, for a breach of the- anti-ghotiting regulations..i.fle held that defendant ha 4 endea,vo'r«|d .to escape punishment by indiscriminate perjury and subornation of pijMij»ry. He hadvalso been openly flauntjjps.the regulaitions.

In -the case against Ueorgo H;wiry Bedwood, an official of t ho Wood vi lie Jock©y ■ Club, dharged with permitting investments to b« received on the totalisator after being notified of the time oft jstKrting> races, a - v .conviciion was recorded, a tine of ' £20 being imposed or two inoiitW hard: labor,, th« hiagistratt holding that a serious breach of the Jaw had been proved. '

WELLINGTON, this day. At a special meetang of the Welling' ton branch of the -Seamen's' -Union, the new agreement with the shipowners wa^ explained and adopted. The 1 general president, Mr. Donovan, stated that m the course of twenty years thd :> union had secured an int-rease of" £5 pej month,- and m the past fourteen months had gained an increase of;. £3 a mouth. Mr. Young, ftenoiT<l secretary, will visit Auckland and 1 explain th© conditions to the seamen there, a*nd afterwards will attend meetings at Lyttelton, Duilcidln, and Na/pier. At all ports steps will be taken to get Uii© shipping companies, who have not yet signed/t he new agreement to sign their concurrence to be filed m the Gouri. ' ■

CHRISTdHURCH, this day. I Judge Denniatqh dismissed the appeal of William Pollock, s <sorivicted of betting on a train 'going to Aahburton races, with £10 lOs^Coat* -against appellant.