DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 61, 26 October 1911, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS.

ROTORUA FIRE DISTRICT. .. (^*er, Press Association.) •: t . It . , . Rctorua, October 25. A poll' oh' tlit proposal' to ;constiv:t'ttiie.Rht6huh;a''Fr'6 district .resitted :jn. *carried.Jiy 161 votes.to 2. ‘:. ram A) Sten^minlmum.-wage Wanganui,' October 25/ At ;; meeting of the local branch of tliei A.S R.S last evepihg,_ the ,fql-. . lowing; motion was. carried: That this bran'h urge's the Minister of - Rail ~ wavs to «Tx the minimum wage at nine shillings per day AUCKLAND DRAINAGE STRIKE. i k * Auckland, October 25. . • v inquiries made tonight, it ■ was learned- -that about two hilridred. men have struck in connection , with • the' drainage works. Mr Moody, contractor, who introduced the system objected to, explains that as co-opelhtive workers joined the strikers; he is' released from his contract with them, and therefore the grievance of the ‘union has been removed. DILUTED MILK. .... 1 Wellington, October 25.,,, . At ifche'Magistrate’s Court to-day, J. D. ‘Chapter, dairyman, was lined 40s arid 19s '6d' costs for 1 having more than a certain percentage of water in his milk. Eis defence whs that the water had been put .in by-an employee who was under notice of dismissal.