DUNEDIN NEWS.
EXPLOSIVE COMPANY.
(Per Press Association.) Dunedin, last night. A company was registered to-day named the Military and Naval High Explosive Company to manufacture mortito for charging shells, torpodoos, and submarine mines. Probably Government will bo approaohed and asked to acquire the right to manufacture mortite with the view of establishing an arsenal in the colony. THE LIQUOR QUESTION. At tho annual meeting of tho Council of Churches this evening tho following rcsoi lutiou was passed : —“ This Council views with surprise and alarm the failure of tho police to prosecute persons selling liquor in Newtown ; that it declares such failures is a tacit encouragement to lawlessness and is apt to breed contempt for all law and encourage disorder, and tends to imperial tho rights and liberties of all lawabiding citizens; tho Counoil therefore onters its indignant protest, and oalls upon I the Government to see that tho polios do I their duty in this matter.” Mr A. S. Adams was elooted President for the ensuing year.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 971, 18 August 1903, Page 2
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