HERE AND THERE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16771, 10 October 1928, Page 13

HERE AND THERE

(P.A. Messages.) The secretary of the C.P.O. advises that a navigation warning has been broadcast from Sydney In the effect (hat a destroyer flotilla will be carrying on! daylight gunners and torpedo #e>:orcises between H a.m. and 4 p.m. on October 10. off the entrance to Jetvis Bay. In the case in which two business linns are suing the Wellington Harbor Board in respect of goods pillaged from a wharf shed, the magistrate, Mr. K, Page, reserved his decision. One hundred and sixty delegates were present al Hie annual conference of the Baptist Union of New Zealand, which was opened at Ghristchurch to-day. Mr. Samuel Harry, Auckland, vice president of the union, presided. New churches at, New Lynn and Pukekohe were received into the union, Reference was made to the \isil of a distinguished visitor, the Rev. W. T. Whit'ely, a noted Baptist scholar. author, and leader. Owing to the deadlock between the parties, the Conciliation Council at Cbristchurch to-day referred the dispute brought by the New Zealand Federated Moulders' Association against the Federated Iron Masters' Association, to the ArlutMtion Court. At the Magistrate's Court at New Plymouth to-day, Douglas Thomas liodgers was sentenced to three months hard labor on seven charges ol false pretences and issuing valueless cheques. Thomas Joseph Spalding received two months for obtaining goods by false pretences at Oka to and Palmerston North. The Imperial forestry delegates, who left Dunedin for the north by special train this afternoon, inspected the City' Corporation's afforestation works, which tbev warmly praiseM, They were greatly impressed with the planting of such a large area of over 5000 acres, with another 5000 available.