BETTING ON HOTEL PREMISES
By Telegraph—Press Association, Christchurch, September 2. At tho Magistrate's Court, Charles Lawrenco was fined .£3O on each of two charged of betting- on hotel premises, and £5 for publishing betting cards.:
Sir Josonh Ward, discussing tho Samoan mandate last night, said tho trouble that hnd arisen from German rule in Samoa had been foreseen by public men in Now Zealand. On January 15, 1900, when lin had been Colonial Secretary, ho had written to the Premier (Mr. Sedtlon): —"Tho new arrangement substituted for tho trinla control may have been tho hrist for somo important diplomatic reasons from the Imperial point of view, but it is far from the interest or advantage of the colonies to have a foreign Power controllini' Samoa. Jiow Germany has un iinilisMitcd baso in ihe western Pacific, which thev can utiliso for tho purposes of offence or defence, and I fear it will uoruo (lav Drove to be a menaco to the Empire, or at least to tho important portions of it comDriecd in the evor-growing colonial possessions whioh form eo important a section of It."
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 290, 3 September 1919, Page 6
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184BETTING ON HOTEL PREMISES Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 290, 3 September 1919, Page 6
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