LATE NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 15079, 29 November 1919, Page 8

LATE NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

" AUCKLAND, this day. The butchers on strike, at- a meeting to-day, approved of the deerision to .continue the fight. They pledged them--i selves tp stand firm until a sebiQement . was reached. ; Ajel Ncillsson, master of the trawler • Countess, for fishing inside the prohibited area, was fined £10. The Couit . said the question of forfeiture .of the t vessel .was a matter, for the Crown. < : ■ DUNEDIN, this day. A New' Zealand brass band to tour the -world is being formed. Tlie sane- , tion of the South Island Association has , been secured. It is expected that the j North Island Association will follow , suit. The band will comprise 30 . memj bers selected- from all parts of New Zea- ' land. The. selecting is to be done at Dunedin during the bands' contest, the hand leaving m about six months' time. 1 The band "will tour the Dominion . first "'. and then Australia. • The death is reported '.at, Milfovd - ; Sound of Mr,. iDcnald -Sutherland, V so '. well -known; to -tourists. No particulars ■ are to hand. It is understood -that he " and Mrs. Sutherland were Hying . alone i at M'lfoi'd Sound. He was agred itbout -■ 85. He was the discoverer of Suther--5 land. Falls. . Arthur Henderson, unmarried, a far- • mer, at- Tomahawk, was killed last night • by the overturning of n niotor cm* m which he was riding with 'three. others. I*- Thp driver states tha* the steering gear - failed to act when trying to turn a - sharp bend. -'-.' '" At a meeting nf. Dunedin on Thurs- - da y. night Mr. Howard Elliott was re- » ported to have said that. Archbishop O'She^ threatened Sir Jnmes Allen that if legislation was not passed excluding Marist Brothers from military service, the Roman Catholics in '.the Public Service would be caPed out on strike. At a meetiin? last night at. -M-lddlemarch Sir James Al'en gave an emphatic contradiction. He said he had telegraphed i to Archbishop o ? Shea. who had W°- ! plied: "Reported statement absolutely - withou 1 . foundation. I never made ahy V [ such threat or suggestion." : j