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Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 August 1910, Page 3

The "Queen of the Sontli" jvill leave Wellington to-morrow for Fox-t-O]). ■ A Press Associnbictj) from Christchim-li states that Mr T. P. Martin, solicitor to the Municipal Association, advises the dirisU-tliiwrh City Council that it has n° P'ower u> pro'liibit the exhibition of tliJ fig'lvt pictures. He says there is n (> general law dealing with the censorship of dramas and .the Wee, and the Council in licensi?ig halls ,is concerned only uitli the fitness of the building,. and n°t with the character of the entertainjnent to be given in thorn. ■ Speaking; during the debate on 't'i!:-e fijiajjciul statement, Mr Field, M.P., said, he Jmperl that the session wi/ukl n'Ab.Ro. by without the Gov-or-nment bi'inging down legislation iv accordance with the report of the '•Timbe-r .Commission. Further, he iirp;ed' :i iliat the ■ Government should clr soniething to cope witih the sanddrift trouble on the West Coast, and .aflhm ..D" Cockayne to complete his report on the subject. The \yril was' a very ' pressing • one, rfl ' )_ ''"ng, settlers' of la.rfre areas every year' H'n'd .he -thought it "\vjould be 'a tfoodit-Mn.T if" the' Government took up'an area of such land for experimental purposes.