DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144070, 15 April 1913, Page 3

DOMINION TELEGRAMS.

A STRIKE AT GORE. Per Press Association. fIORE, April 14. Tho freezing chamber hands, slaughtermen’s assistants, and rabbit packers struck at tho Mataurn Freezing Works on Saturday, tho troublo being over free labour butchers being put on to unload coal. The unionists considered that preference should give them casual labour. After a conference with tho company tho strike was settled and the men returned to work. A LICENSING CASE. NAPIER, April 15. Leslie Steele, licensee of tho West Shore Hotel, has been fined £S and costs for serving a Native with liquor for consumption off the premises. The Magistrate 'further ordered the license to bo endorsed, defendant having personally committed the offence. PRICES OF GROCERIES RAISED. DUNEDIN, April 15. The master grocers of Dunedin have raised the retail prices of a number of their goods. This is due to higher freights and .the increased wages paid to grocers’ assistants under the new Arbitration Court award.