TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 October 1917, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

[per PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.]

SOCIAL HYGIENE BELLI.

CHRIStCHURCH, October 12.

A largely attended meeting of wontc nto-dav carried a resolution protesting against tbe attempt to reenact tho C.D. Act under the guise of the Social Hygiene Bill. Dr. B'laekniore who was one of the chief speakers, in the course of his condemnation of the Bill, ’ remarked that no other country in the world suffered so much from hasty and illconsidered legislation as New Zealand.

A further resolution was carried to the effect that every facility should be given for free and voluntary treatment- of sufferers from venereal disease, urging the establishment of farm colonies for persons suffering from such disease and raising the age of consent, also employment of women police, and instruction in moral education. A -LOAN TR ANSACTION: WELLINGTON, Oct, 12. At tbe. Magistrate’s Court tb-'day the widow of a soldier applied for tbe. reopening of . a loan transaction with Charles Goldstein, trading as the Empire Loan and Financial Company. O n January 4th last the soldier and his wife negotiated a: loan of £2O, on which £7 interest was to be charged, the whole to he repayable fy fourteen monthly instalments -of £2 each. The sum of 30s was paid in expenses, the borrower receiving £lB 10s. Air Singer, for tbe defendant, stated that his client had received to date in respect of the loan a sum of £lB. Tn consideration of tho fact that the woman's husband had been killed, and that she was now in distressing Circuinustanees, the company thought the matter was one in which it should accent the £lB already paid in settlement of the whole amount due under the agreement. The application was therefore struck out.