GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 23, 21 July 1911, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

POLICE SERGEANTS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Thursday. It ihas been definitely decided to abolish the rank of station-sergeant in t!he police force and to substitute for it the rank of senior sergeant. The four present .station sergeants—Sergeant King (Dunedin), Johnston (Oliristchurcli), Darby (Wellington), and Treanor (Ant-Hand) —will in future be senior sergeants, and the following have been appointed to the same rank: —Sergeants Stagpoole (Oamaru), Bourke (W'anganui), Haddrc]] (New Plymouth), Fouhy (Ashlmrton), Remer (Sydenham), Mackinnon (Wai'hi), Ryan (Lytteliton), Rutledige (Mount Cook), Mathieson (Wellington South), and Dart (New Plymouth). A SHIPPING CASE. Wellington, Thursday. Mr. Justice Chapman reserved decision ,t«-day in .the case of the ca.ptain and owners of the steamer Durham _v. the Collector of Customs. Plaintiffs sought an order under the Declaratory Judgments Act interpreting section 75 of the Shipping and Seamen's Act ianid declaring whether the current rate of wages in New Zealand is payable to seamen employed on a ship arriving from abroad and loading and discharging cargo in New Zealand ports. The judge (held that the coastal rate of wages was (payable in the circumstances «f this ease.