LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3136, 14 July 1917, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

"That this conference protest to the Government ncainst alien enemies bning allowed to follow their private -occupations, whilst Hritish subjects are lioiiift sent to Hie front and aro liable to bo railed lip for national service in Now tfenlnncl, and suggest that I hey be conscripted for .national work." The c.bove motion was cniried at yesfcjnlny'e conference of the Council of Agriculture.

"Get rid of tho old Tory principles and ?et nliout establishing a good political.record," was Hie advice offered to tho Prime Minister by Mr. W. A. Vcilch (Wnngjimii) in tlin House of BeproEcntnHves yesterday. "My political record aa Prime Minister has only commenced," retorted Mr. Masppy. "I shall have plenty of time during the next twenty years or so to i-ee that the right thing is done. 1 hope that during the whole of tho time I shall have the honourable gentleman's smiling face opposite ino." (Laughter.) Later Mr. Masscy said ho had never been able to discover just what a Tory was. Tic had been told on one occasion that a Tory was a "soured Liberal." (Laughter.)

At yesterday's sitting of the New Zealand "Council'of Agriculture,two remits urging the discontinuance of territorial training and territorial camps during the war were lost on the voices.

Commenting on the cablegram from Sydney regarding anti-shoutiiipr, an Auckland police official states that as a result of tho regulations convictions for drunkenness in the city have been reduced by slightly over 25 per cent.— Press Assn. ■ .

Not all of tlie dairy factories in NewZealand have paid and continued to pay the butter levy. The Minister responsible for the levy (Hon. W. D.'S. MacDonnld) informed the House of Representatives yesterday \hat 217 factories were in arrears with the levy. It was also true, he said, that some of tlie factories which had never paid the levy, end had never taken on •'export licenses, had been allowed to export. But t?is did not mean tfiat these factories would be nlldived to escape payment of Hie lerv. If they did net pay, the Government would take legal proceedings to recover. Tho reason why the cheese was exported was that it was necessary to get it (nit of store and on shipboard in order to avoid total loss of the cheese, which was in such a condition that it was desirable that it should be shipped. 'Mr. Mac Donald added that the amount of 3234,000 had been paid for the levy in cash, and *C17,3W in promissory notes.

The City Ensineer has decided that Hunter Street West is too narrow to servo as a parking place for private motor-cars, and its name has been erased from the list of streets that may be so used.

Tho South Wairarapa Trotting Club, through its secretary, Mr. W. Armstrong, has handed to The Dominion - cflicp a cheque for .£IOO as a donation lo the Crippled Soldiers' Hostel Fund.

Two necident cases wore admitted to the Wellington Hospital yesterday. A married man nanwd Priestley, employed at Staples's Boot Factory, had badly injured his thumb while working ft machine. Edward Roland Jeffei'.ys, manager of a sheep station at Te Awaite, Martinborough, was admitted suffering from a broken leg, as the result of a kick from a calf.

The Lands Department is to be approached by the City Council with a view to having a strip of Hnd adjoining the Education reserve at Williams Park (Day's Bay).included,in the lease of the Education reserve, as' the strip is a part of tho Day's Bay catchment area.

New Plymouth recently held a .£IOOO day for the patriotic funds. The statement shows that nearly i>lßoo was netted, which is a Tecord for a one-day effort in Tarauaki.—Press Assn.

The settlement of returned soldiers on the land was dealt with in a report presented to Parliament yesterday. The results are stated to liave been on the whole very 6atisfactory. The majority of the soldiers who have gone on. the land nre wording in a manner that gives great promise of success; some have been most successful already, but a few have shown that they have neither the will nor the capacity to sneceed. The percentage of failures is not, however, higher than it would be in ordinary settlement. During the past year applications for land were fairly numerous, over '100 soldiers having applied for specific sections. Of these ."19 we.ro provided with.143,52t acres, 180 settlers being placed upon Crown land and 131 upon land acquired under the Land for Settlement Act. One hundred urn! twenty-four soldiers selected land i» the ■Wellington district, 72 in Auckland, and 57 in Hawke's Bay. In the majority of cases soldiers have* preferred to settle in the North Island, several settlements of good,land in the South having failed to find applicants.

A deputation of Welliiißton Ijoot miimifucturers, representing tlie 8001. Jfcuitifiictiiruifr Association,- /conais'tin;,' of Messrs. Mnpplebeek, Osborne, ami Ward, and Jlr. Colbournc representing tlie TFnited Slioo iraniifnctni-ins Company, met. the chairman of the Wellington Technical Education Board am! the Director of the Technical College in rcRiird to tho question of establish)in; courses in hoot and shoe manufacturing at the Wellington Technical " Collcrp. after some discussion it was arranged thai: Jlr. Ward and the Director of the Technical College should report at. t> meetiiij: of the Education C'omniitleo of iho ; Technical Board next week, and that the members of the. deputation should lie present to arrange detail? with tho committee, with ii view, to startimr classes at once. It was mentioned by the denudation that Mcrts, It. Hannah and Co.. W. and .1. Staples, amt C. J. Wnr<] ,-ir.d Co. are prepared to give tho use of their plants and material for the purposes of demonstrating to the students. Thcs< plants embrace Ilio liile«t machines .ind npplianees in Tlnpland ;ind Anier'-.'., maniifnctiired by (h? United Shoe ,Co.. "•ho offered through their manager, ?'-■. CoHimirne, lo inetol machines in. the Technical Colloire as soon as acconiinodation is. availsjilfr;-' .- _.

rloforo (he Full Court yesterday the. New Zealand Law Society, for whom Mr. H. F. von Haast appeared, moved to nave- the rule nisi made absolute in tho case of Howard Hill, solicitor, in respect to an application to. nave him struck off tho rolls. Mr. H. T. O'Leary, who appeared for Hill, said it was necessary to obtain an affidnvit from a man at the front, and tho Court decided to adjourn the matter to the first sitting of tho Court of Appeal in 1918. In the meanwhile Hill continues under suspension.

The. following resolution has been passed by tho Y.'W.C.A.t-'That this meeting of tlin Hoard of Director's of the Wellington Young Women's Christian Association is of opinion that in order to ensure an early and successful ending to the war it has become a national necessity to secure the,'maximum of efficiency' in military, commercial, industrial, ami social affairs, and also to reduce unnecessary expenditure to a minimum , ; and, being convinced that the restriction of tho hours for tho sale of intoxicating liquors would assist in theso directions, urgently requests tho Government to secure at tho earliest opportunity the necessary legislative authority to reduce the time during which alcohol may bo sold to between 8 o'clock a.m. and (i o'clock p.m."

Tim following clause in the report of Hie. Reserve Committee was adopted by the. City Council on Thursday overling:—

"That in 'consequence of tho council's, action in reducing tho current year's expenditure allocation of reserve-:, Zoo, and forestry departments by and JCSOO each respectively, an intimation has been forwarded to the custodian of each reserve and all persons concerned with the <ilx>ve departments, urging them to exercise the utmost economy during the present financial year."

Tho Appeal Court yesterday reserved its'decision in the case of the King- v. Kobin .Taster Ci'ago, n case stated by air. Justice Cooper involving questions as to what, constituted a conviction for the purpose of determining whether a.man is a habitual criminal, and also whether sentence Imposed upon a man undergoing reformative treatment tan b.s concurrent.

Mr. E. Kennedy, assistant- secretary, of lht> Hotel Workers'. Union, writes:—"ln the Supreme Court recently a man nani ; rd G. C'ooke was sentenced to a ■ long term of inipri=~onment-for theft, and his occupation was given as <i barman. In justice to a largo number of men who earn their livelihood as barmen, we wish to deny the fact that Cooke was a barman—as a matter of fact, he never was employed in anv hotel 'as a barman, but he was for a short, time working, as a rousenbout. in one hotel."

The replicas, of the challenge shields and medals won by the' New Plymouth Boys' High School teams in the Schools of the Empire Shooting Competition have now come to hand. The silver challenge, shield itself has not been sent out en account, of the submarine- danger, and it i> at present being displayed in the office of the High Commissioner in London. Tho replicas and medals are very fine. TTfey will be exhibited in Parliament lobliy for n few days, and subsequently in'some Wellington shop window. L;iter on Sir James Allen will present the replicas. 'flic New Plymouth Boys' High School rained first and second places. Home 500 teams competed. Attention is drawn to an alteration in the notice ro classification of ■ Second Division which appeared in our issue of July 0. Tiro last line of the first paragraph should liaro read "child before the Ist. Mny. 1915," instead of "child before the Ist'May, 1917." The corrected notice appears in'another column of this issue.