DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 74, 18 March 1914, Page 8

DOMINION NEWS.

A COWARDLY ASSAULT. [Per Press Association.] Auckland, March 17. On Friday evening an Arbitrations t watersider, Nicols Saunders, who had liad a strenuous argument with a I oderationist watersider, was suddenly attacked from behind in a side-street and knocked down by a blow from an iron bar, and brutally kicked. His assailant escaped by dodging through the railway yards. To-day, acting on information received, two detectives proceeded to a lonely bay on Rangitoto Island in the Hauraki Gulf, and there arrested Alfred Madigan on a charge of assault. Madigan was discovered lying in the bottom of a boat, and was much surprised by the appearance of the detectives.

CHEAP MEAT.

Auckland, March 17

The Auckland Waterside Workers Union has in hand a scheme for supplying its own members and those attached to arbitration unions throughout the city, with meat at cost price. On Saturday*a special meeting of the union will be held for the purpose of considering a large scheme to be placed on a proper business basis. This is the first attempt made by a New Zealand trade union to adopt a co-operative purchase principle. Just now the idea is bein gtried on a small scale, and members of the union are purchasing their meat direct from the freezing chambers, with the result that they are obtaining lamb at fourpence a pound, and mutton at 3-id, this being practically one-half of the current prices in Auckland. <( A mere flash in the pan,” was the description applied to the enterprise by a local butcher, who said that if the union members attempted to establish a depot, they would soon find that they could sell no cheaper than Auckland butchers. He did not think that the sanitary authorities would for long tolerate the conditions under which the carcases were being cut Tip.

MR MASSEY AT WESTPORT.

Westport, March 17

The Right Hon. W. F. Massey, Prime Minister, arrived from Nelson this evening, opening the Murchison Show en route. He was welcomed by a large gathering of citizens, who made him guest at a complimentary dinner. At the conclusion, some speeches were .made, and the DeputyMayor, who presided, presented Miss Massey, whose birthday it happened to be, with a very handsome gold bangle.

Later, Mr Massey delivered an address at the Irish National concert, and then gave a political address in the other theatre before a very large gathering; The Prime Minister wfis subjected to a good deal of heckling from the extreme Socialist section, but the meeting passed oil' on the whole very goodhumoredly, concluding with a vijte of thanks confidence, which was opposed by tiie Red Fed. section of the audience. A prominent Liberal attempted to speak, but the meeting declined to give him a hearing.