TELEGRAMS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 April 1914, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

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Wellington, This Day. In a raid on a Chinese house in Haining street, seven cases were secured, containing twenty cwt. of pakapoo tickets. Seventeen Chinamen were arrested. CM SORIOUS. .---■■' Hamilton, April 18. •The Hamilton Borough Council expressed surprise, last night, that such a circular as that asking advice from local bodies in t regard to employment of conscientious objectors should be sent out by the Minister for Defence. The mayor 'said' that if loopholes were to be made in this direction then the whole compulsory scheme would be rendered useless. One mem-

her referred to conscientious objeeas frauds, and said they might as well go back to the voluntary system if wholesale exemption was to be granted, and a resolution was passed that the council strongly objects to finding work for con-' seientious objectors to military training, and hopes that the Government will maintain the defence system as at present established. INCREASED CONFIDENCE. Dunedin, April 18. The Hon. J. Allen states that the Post Office Sayings Bank made an outstanding recovery in the ratio of deposits to withdrawals as compared with this time last year. There was a tremendous drop in deposits before the present Government came in : probably the raising of the interest to 3$ per cent, had something to do with the recovery, but the improved state of affairs was not due to that alone. He attributed it mainlv to the strike efforts dying , out and a general firming of the dominion's business. An undoubted fact was that people had now morp_' confidence in the country and tlio Government fTTat controlled tin , country's affairs.