DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143762, 10 April 1912, Page 7

DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

EXPORTED APPLES, Per Press Association. NELSON, April 9. Air. P. 6. Moffatt, secretary of the Nelson Fruitgrowers’ Association, has received cable advice that part of tho Ridley shipment of Nelson apples sold at Vancouver at from 8s to 10a. Growers will receive only moderate net figures. The balance of the shipment will be sold in London. 'SUNDAY SCHOOLS CONFERENCE. BLENHEIM, April 9. The Sunday Schools Onion held a successful conference hero at Easter, representing 87s chools, 100 teachers, and 111,000 scholars. A reeloution vfaS passed favouring co-operation between Bible classes and Sunday schools in the interests of the elder scholars. A POLICEMAN ASSAULTED. AUCKLAND, April 9. Henry John TVells, Thomas Henry Leth and Robert Richardson were charged at the Police Court with assaulting Constable Alills in Grey Street at 1 o’clock this morning. ' It is stated that the constable was kicked over the heart and much knocked about. He is in the hospital, and was too ill to appear. Tho full extent of his injuries is not yot ascertained. The men were remanded until April 17. ODDFELLOTVSHIP. CHRISTCHURCH, April 9. At tho Oddfellows’ conference to-day the following officers were elected :—- W.6.M.. Bro. John Clark (Auckland), Grand Master; P.P.G.AI. Bro. John Smith (Wellington), Deputy Grand Master; Bro. J. Kershaw, corresponding secretary and Parliamentary agent; P.P.G.M. Bro. G. E. Godber, treasurer; P.G. Bro. Guise, auditor. The following were elected directors: P.P.G.M’s. Bros. TV.' Thomas (Auckland), F. TV. Watt (Ashburton), J. Salek (Wanganui), W. Loasby (Wellington), F. A. Mooro (Eltham), and J. A. Clarke (Christchurch). NATIONAL ART* GALLERY. WELLINGTON, April 9. A vigorous campaign is being instituted here to obtain the £SOOO necessary to secure the City Council’s donation of £IOOO to tho 'National Art 1 Gallery. Tho formal opening of Mr. Baillie’s great collection of pictures, which has brought about the movement, will eventuate about tho 24th. Up till then the National Gallery has tlie first call, on the pictures. Afterwards they will he open to selection by anyone. Mr. Baillie was asked to exhibit in Australia, but, being unable to do So, purchasers are coming over here on behalf of galleries in New South Wales and Victoria, as well as representatives from various parts of New Zealand. SHEARERS’ UNION. . WELLINGTON, April 10. At the third annual conference of the New Zealand Shearers’ and Woolshed Employees’ Association to-day, representing about 4500 workers, it was decided to take a ballot next shearing season as to whether the union oliould cancel its registration under the Arbitration Act. ARBITRATION COURT AWARDS. WELLINGTON, April 10. The award of the Arbitration Court in the Woollen Mill dispute is largely based on the Canterbury award in the same trade. A week’s work consists of 48 hours, preference is granted to unionists, the present rate for piecework is to continue. The Court's award in the plumbers’, dispute declined to increase the minimum to Is ", 6d an hour, as the union had not advanced anything to justify such alteration. DRIVERS’ AWARD. WELLINGTON,. April 10. At the Drivers’ Federation Conference it was decided to take steps to obtain a Dominion award. A,s a preliminary, a conference was to be sought with the employers with that object. It was also resolved that before the disputes are filed throughout New Zealand the federation should request the Government to appoint a man with industrial and commercial knowledge, with a view to having disputes settled on points of equity and justice and not on legal technicalities. POLICE AND PRISONS, CHRISTCHURCH, April 9. The Hon. J. A. Hanan, Minister of Justice, passed through Christchurch to-night. In an interview he said that he was going into the matter of the appointment of a Commissioner of Police and Undersecretary of Justice with a view to making a recommendation to the Cabinet. The matter would not be decided yet. Ho added that ho was not in favour of going outside the Dominion to get a commissioner of police. He said he might possibly call a conference of gaolers in Wellington, to discuss with them matters of detail in connection with prison management. He was also going into matters connected with xhe administration of the police force, and afterwards intended going into matters connected with the education system, with a view of improving it.