DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143787, 10 May 1912, Page 3

DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT. ' Per Press Association. , WESTPORT, May 9. At a meeting of delegates from Duller and Inangalma local bodies tonight, Mr. D. J. Williams, county chairman, was elected delegate to proceed to Wellington to the conference on the Local Government Bill. The members present disapproved of being allowed to elect only one holding that the interests of boroughs and county councils in some respects conflicted, and that, both should have had an opportunity of representation at the conference. THE MINERS’ STRIKE. DUNEDIN, May 9. In regard to the dispute at Christie’s mine, at Green Island," a meeting of representatives of the Freeman’s and Jubilee cOal companies, was held this afternoon, when each company agreed to take on seven out of 17 men on strike, leaving three men, who, it was stated, would bo at once taken on by Christie’s at the now pit. A letter to the effect was submitted to a meeting to the men-at Fairfield to-night, when it was unanimously decided to agree to the terms of the letter and start work at once. At a late hour to-night, however, Mr. James Christie stated that he was no party to the meeting in the afternoon, and would employ none of the strikers unless the strike was declared off. What effect this will have on the position it is difficult .to say. ANTI-CHINESE AGITATION. WELLINGTON, May 10. An agitation is on foot hero to prevent the Chinese establishing themselves in the furniture trade in New Zealand. The action -is occasioned by a rumour that an attempt is being made by,-or on behalf of, a- party of Chinese craftsmen to establish a factory in Christchurch. .