LAST NIGHT’S TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16607, 10 December 1924, Page 10

LAST NIGHT’S TELEGRAMS.

(IVr Press Association./

Wia.l.lMlTi.-N, last r.i-iil

The Dominion receipts ami expenditure for the eight months show the revenue to November 30 at £15.260,609 and the expenditure at £16,474,400. Tut principle increases in revenue were: Customs £150,000; railways, £165,000; .and tax, £214,000.

hi regard 1 to Hip Cnaehhuilders’ Union's application for a new Dominion award, an agreement woe readied on machinery clauses, but neither side gave way on the major issues, namely hours, wages, and overtime, which wei'e referred to the Arbitration Court. The employers’ spokesman said that they could not be responsible for instituting a new wage eycie for skilled workers.

In a case wherein a. resident of Evans Bay proceeded against the City Council for an injunction, also claiming damage sustained through the smoke nuisance from the new electric light and power house, Mr O’.Shea, city solicitor, claimed that the council was quite within its rights in doing what it had done and applied for a nonsuit. His Worship said he would consider the matter, and the hearing was adjourned till to-morrow. AUCKLAND, last night. All expenses incurred by the special inquiry into the collapse of the western wharf have not yet been computed, but tiie total will run into a considerable sum. The fees of the Commissioners, Messrs Cyrus Williams and F. W. Furkert, have been fixed, it is understood, at £3OO each, exclusive of the customary allowances. The resignation of the Harbor Board’s engineer, Mr Hamer, is stated to be already in operation. NEW PLYMOUTH, last night.

The New Plymouth Harbor Board’s proposal to raise a loan of £600,000 for an extensive scheme of improvements and developments at the port was carried by a. poll of ratepayers of the. harbor district to-day by 2696 votes to 129. A few returns have yet to come in from the outlying booths, but cannot affect the result.

At the 'Supreme Court, Thomas Marsh was acquitted: on three charges, namely that he had unlawfully broken into tbe ./weliing of Charles Handley (his fatlier-in-lauy at Arenui ; that he had been unlawfully on the premises with intent to commit a crime, and that he had been unlawfully on the premises. iNVERCARGILL, last night. Lachie McDonald (Dunedin), middleweight champion, met Vic. Rowe (Australia). in a fifteen-round bout. The tight went the full distance and the result was given as a draw, but the decision met with a. mixed reception. McDonald led throughout and', although Rowe was very clever on defence, McDonald’s extra aggressiveness was much in evidence.

CHRISTCHURCH, last night

On Dip demand of the New Zealand Federated Typographical Industrial Association of Workers for a Dominion award, a lengthy discussion took place on the question of wages, hours, payment for overtime and holidays, hut, up I ill 9 o’clock to-night, when the Council adjourned, no agreement had been reached and the case will lie resumed in the morning.