NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, 17 July 1937, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Race Meetings To-day. Race meetings will be he'ld to-day by the Hawkes Bay Hunt Club and the Waimate Hunt Club. Loaded Rifie Presentcd. Worried by a debt he could not repay, a Dunedin resident presented a loaded rifle at his father-in-law and fired a shot into the ground. "Vicious Racket." Describing . employment frauds as "a vicious racket," a Wellington magistrate ' imposed the maximum pimishment, six months' imprisonment, on a convicted labourer. Death of Young Woman. On the grounds that they might incriminate therpselves a chemist and" his wife ref used to answer questions asked at the iiiquest into the deathj of a young woman at Auckland. Single Ownership Scheme. ■Abandonment of the single ownership of • transport policy of the' Government is urged by the Farjners'' Union, which is not satisfied with an explanation on the.,subject by -the Minister. /Ui , Force . Oflifcere. Two Royal Air Force speci^list officers from England have arrived tp join thb headquarters staff of the New Zealand Air Force at Wellington 'under the system of exchange of officers. Retail Butter Prices. That the Government did not intend to interfere in the niatter of retail butter prices until the return from abroad of the Minister of Marketing was ari annouhcement made ' by the acting-Minis-ter yesterday. ' "Rescue" From Island. At their own urgent request four of Ihe settlers ; on Sunday . Island, in the Kermadec group, are to be taken bff by the. Maui Pomare, which conveyed an exploratory expeditton from New Zealand to the island. False Declarations. That it was , the duty of the Labour Department to prpsecute in every case where it was satisfied that a man on sustenance had deliberately made a false declaration was the view expressed by an Auckland magistrate yesterday.