TELEGRAMS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1921, Page 1

TELEGRAMS

:< ■ I Ml. i:il TIAIII - -I' 7 lt I’ItEHS ASSOCIATION ] poaching uK Tiiorr NELSON. OH. 1 f. ', - 11:111 ■•■ii"i> complaints have b-en nude to the Nelson Acclimatisation Society that poneliing nf tiout is extensively carried on in many of the liveis. the Society has found if neees s.ry |o oliei a substantial reward for infill mill 101 l that will lead !o the miilieli. n ol anyone illegally taking fish The Nelson Aeelimal isa t ion Society is detei mined to suppress punching in i'.s distiiel, as t licit past effoits in rearing and liherating some ‘JOfl.lMltl trout annually. uil h the olijeia of pi'o\ id ia; good lishing for lieeiise-hihlcrs. him a linos! proved fl'ilifless owing to the lisli being taken ::ud deslioyed in num Inns by 11 iisei npu lolls pei-ons by Imi mean-. Tile Society has reecaolU ap poimed several rangers in diflerelit p.;ri - ol I his di'l! id . and they, in eon in nit i • 111 with 0! In-r spin t sineii. an keeping a dm 1 p look oil! !ui olleinh’is.

RUING ( OMMISSIOVS REP-'iß'l MR MASSET’S VIEW. WELLINGTON, AM. 1 ! The Prime Minister, replying to a deputation from religious bodies with reference to the Racing Commission’repoil, said that peisoiuilly he had si Ini 1 ■ ,11\ -,eii a summary ol the p port lull whatever might he thought cl itthric could he no doubt that it ' .1 - a

w;'. impoiant report. The duly of the Government, Mi Mas-ey said, was to submit the report tn Parliament some lime during the preset!i session. Il would not he made a party question, and every membei Would vote just as lie fell inclined and without any interference on the par! if the Government. It was true that the report suggested that there -lioiild he all increase in the number ot race days, but there was lliis important as port to he remembered, liiat lues" ad dim,mil days weie loi r.miltrv district: ..iboir there were no meetings now At. the same time, it was suggested dial some 111 the (Till,- ill the centres o population should he abolished. lln effort o| that, lie thought. Would he to doorcase gambling. lb' was not an advocate of gambling. Mr Massev added, ami personally h, would iat lief see the sport of horse timing eai l ied on without it. He n *c not lions of the Commission going through

;'(> Mouse, as tliev appeared at |>re sopt hut the dill v of Hu Govennneii was 'pel feet lv clear. The Covei iinieni had to lay li on d mble. am' a-k the House to agree or dusagie with it. and the Government w,. I have to abide by the derision.

Will',AT IMPORTATIONS. TAI.K OK SMART PRACTICU. AVKMJNGTON, (let. IT Complaints have licen made during tho session that importations of fowl wheat have been badly controlled ami importers allowed to charge higher prices than New /calami wheat growers secure. Mr Young (Waikato) revived tho (piostion to-day, with l be result that the Minister of Agriculture, the Hon W. Nosworthy, spoke m strong terms in his reply, lb' admitted that there had been a scarcity of low I wheat, which Irnl to importations, and that there was some difficulty at first about shipping. “I had to exercise my power us Minister,” he continued. “to stop certain firms from handlin', wheat .because f did not. get a straight rim. They wanted to earn on some of the gaims they tried in the previous season, hut they were howled out. I could give, the names privately.’’ Mr Young interjected that his complaint came from a poultry association. The Minister retorted tlmt some of the linns connected with tho poultry industry did not exorcist* tho permit in tin* interests of this industry, but in favour of a few friends. He thought that when full information was available his questioner would realise that there was no cause for the dissatisfaction which seemed to exist,