DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 1, 17 August 1911, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

COOKS AND WAITERS’ DISPUTE. (Per Press Association.) Wellington, August 16. Mr. Halley presided over tiie Conciliation Council in tho Wellington cooks and waiters’ dispute to-day. An amicable agreement was ultimately come to on all points at issue. The terms in the main arc in keeping with Clio award conditions existing in Wellington and the main centres. Tho matter will bo formally submitted to the Arbitration Court to be converted into an award, operative in the boroughs of Palmerston and Wanganui. In the main the agreement is on a par with award conditions existent in Dio four centres. DRIED MILK FOR DR. MAWSON. . Palmerston North, August 16. Nathans are sending their large order for- dried milk for Dr. Mawson’s Antarctic expedition to Melbourne in flffcy-ponnd tins. There Dr. Mawson has a compressing plant, and intends to convert the dried milk into tabloids, so that they will be most rcadly portable on the various expeditions over the ice and to the Polo. AGGRAVATED ASSAULT. Wellington, August 16. At the Magistrate’s Court to-day i ames Burns, a middle-aged man, was Bound gnilty r of aggravated assault on in eight years’ old girl at Nelson, and was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment.

CHRISTCHURCH FIRE BOARD. 5 Christchurch, August 16. The Christchurch Fire Board toaight decided to inform the Palmerston North Board, in reply to the ■ ast mentioned Board’s enquiry, that t considered it undesirable to hold a inference of lire boards this year, nving to the shortness of the session, hut that a conference might be held shortly before next session. The Joard decided to support the Hastings Board’s efforts to have the Act unendod in the direction of fire boards being enabled to borrow under phe Government Loans to Local Bodies Act. NEXT SOUTH ISLAND BAND CONTEST. • ■ Christchurch, August 16. At a public '.meeting to-night it was decided that the next contest of the South Island Bands Association bo Held at Christchurch during November next. A strong committee was elected to make the necessary arrangements. A sum of £6O vas guaruitood in the room towards the expenses. CHRISTCHURCH BY-ELECT lON. Christchurch, August 16. The candidates for Christchurch North (Mr. J. 1). Hall and the Rev. b. M. Isitt) gave final addrossrs to phe electors to-night, the meetings being crowded. The poll will be taken to-morrow.