DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3422, 13 January 1912, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS.

RIVER PLATE CO. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION JJ AUCKLAND, Jan. 12. The local office of the New Zealand River Plate Company is advised that at the annual meeting the recommendations of the directors ns to the disposal of the year’s profits, already published, were approved . A resolution for increasing the capital was passed. COOK’S AND STEWARDS’ DISPUTE. WELLINGTON, Jan. 12. An agreement on practically all points has been reached in the cooks and stewards’ dispute before the Conciliation Council. The minimum wages shall be: Chief stewards, £lO per month; chief cook, £10; cook steward, with assistant, £10; cook steward, without assistant, £ll 10s; assistants £4 10s; overtime rates Is per hour. SLY GROG SELLER. At the Police Court to-day Richard Pliillips, proprietor of a fish and chips shop, was fined £ls with costs, for slygrog selling. In connection with the same affair two men were fined for being on the. premises. FLOOD DAMAGE. DUNEDIN, Jam 12. The City Engineer reports that the damage occasioned by the recent Northeast Valley ‘Floods amounts to close on £9OO. STORING LIQUOR IN ASHBURTON. ASHBURTON, Jan. 12. Thos. Gibson was fined £lO ♦for the storing of liquor for another man in a no-license district