LATE TELEGRAMS

Waikato Independent, Volume VI, Issue 384, 13 June 1907, Page 5

LATE TELEGRAMS

THE PRICE OF BREAD. (PKR PRESS ASSOCIATION.) ! Auckland, This Day. I The Trades’ and Labor Council carried jI a resolution strongly protesting against i the increased price of bread, and urged the Government to take action with re-• gard to the present short weight of bread I* being sold, and to legislate on the matter, also to prevent the food supply of the people of the colony being interfered with ■}.. by trusts and combines. :*■s ' A THE AUCKLAND POST OFFICE. Auckland, This Day. .j The Acting Post-master-General la re- > ply to complaints made concerning the i work at the Post Office here, states the - : stall is to be -divided so that no officer i ; will be required to do work on Sunday ' of tenor than alternate Sundays, It is also ■- under consideration whether the pay- - ment of Sunday overtime should not be , increased about fifty per cent. If it is ! possible to further meet the case by appointing additional officers this will be - done. He also stated in regard to ac- ■ commodation that the whole of the par- * cels branch had been removed to building ■ in Fort street, which had been rented for ! that purpose. i; DEATH X OF A PROMINENT SPORTSMAN. / Auckland, This Day.'■ A Wm. McLaughlin, of Papatoitoi, a pro- - minent figure in sporting circles, died A yesterday from the effects of internal : 1 injury, caused by his horse falling on \?- him some weeks ago. ;