DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 April 1923, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

[nv TELEGRAPH—PEP. PRESS ASSOCIATION.] FERRY SERVICE. mararoa to replace .Maori. WKI.LI_.GTOX. April I. The ’ mon Company anmnincos that the Maori will leave Lyttelton on lApril mill, lor Port Chalmers for survey and overhaul. The Mararoa v- i!I be despatched from Lyttelton on April 1-fth.. taking the Maori's sailing days, leaving Lyttelton on Monday. WedI ne.sdi.y and Friday, and Wellington, j Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday. The j -Mu'aroa will be de-nut-lied from Lyttelton upon the nnival of the ft ret express from Dunedin, namely, at the •).20 p-in. train fiom Chi istohnivh. and will leave Wellington at 7.J0 p.m. The Mararoa will dock at Lyttelton next week. The Railway Department also r,nliounees that after April I-Ith. the through express from Tnvereargill to Clu istehurcli will run three times a week, on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. DECLINING BIRTH-RATE, j ('AXON* XLYILL'S AVAR.NfXG. j, DCXKDTX. April ii. In faking the three hours' devotion 1 at St. Paul's (athedral. Canon Xevill -peaking on tile words from the Cross: “Woman, behold thv sin: son, behold I thy mother.'’ said that to-day New 1 Zealand's birthrate was the lower I 1 known. Women and men were luvnm- * ing too selfish to have children. (i They could not he bothered with them. ‘

The result was the increasing frequency of divorce. A childless family usually meant that, ft meant, tco. that young girls’ lives were more frankly heathen than they had ever been before. It, was perfectly line that there was very little public vice in Xew Zealand, hill private vice was ‘becoming common. Every chemist in j the Dominion coni.l horrify society if lie chose to do so on that -"(ire. We had only to read the late accounts of the Supreme Court trials to see Unit abortion, both by unmarried and married women, was being increasingly practised. Everyone wanted money for rmiosomonis. for Faster and Christmas holidays, for clothes most of all. The Canon remarked that it was in the big drapery si ores that women became really prayerful. All this meant “no children.” In the midst m all this, ilu' while rive and its family life Mas going to pieces. Possibly it meant (hat eventually the \ellrw races would tell us that if we void net populate Australia and New Zealand. they would, and we would have to meet the industrial pressure of hundreds of millions of Asiatics starving for land. WANGANUI TOURNEY. WAXCAXCf. April I. The Lie\ ling centre's Master tourney concluded this attornoou in brilliant weather, liencliehl (Si John's) played Prh e (Filzroyt ill the final, which resulted: Ucnelielil 23: Price lit. j NOTICE OF VACANCY. WK1.1.1 XCTON, April IS. | The nllieial not ifn at ion of the vn- | eauey in Ihe Oamaiu seal appears in j to night’:- 'Gazette." > A MOA. WFI.I.rXGTOX. April -I. j

M | The Pi ime Aliiti-lcr has been advi-ed _ by cable that 111 igadicM lemal G. S. Riehard-i ii. tlm new Admiai-u ator of Samoa, was (i.'coided an cuthiisia-tie rece]:fiim hy the European residents | and unlives. Ceileial Rii he : d-on read messages ll'cm the GoVcriini'-Cenel'al, Lord Jelli- | coe. and ihe prime Mmi-lcr. Tin* Covei iior-( boicral said it was with unfeigned |eh -arc that he had noted signs of retail ning prosperity and increasing eo-operat icn of the native chiefs villi Lite . V <!’. in nis t r;i tor. lie assistance tendered to Colonel R. \Y. j Tale in the government of the islands | had been a source of siuisfaefiou. j The I’lime Alini-ter assured li:e i Ic of Samoa that the Government I i f New Zealand retli.-ed the .-erred j duty deputed to it hy ihe League oi i Nations to govern Samoa in the in- j j lore.l- 111 Its people, and the Govern- j j ltienl wool-! do its ufmusl to prone I a j | the welfare ol the people, and develop j RAID IN TORY STREET. ALLEGED GA.MISLI.NG DEN. j WELLINGTON, -April 3. j i A raid on premises at Si, 'lory j I s’tieet, was carried out hy a posse of plain clothes police about 1(1. l b o'el n k a! night, and resulted in 2!) men ht'upa. aptii ehemled, who were found on the premises, which is alleged to bare hoi'ii used as a gambling mid drinking ■ house. The proceeding' were carei'uliy carried mu. and about 12 plain chains j mm in varied garb to suit the local-j ity, a- emhled at the house, while aj number of constables were posted at i vantage points in the vicinity. At aj given signal the pulin' raided the c-s-j tahlishment, and found a room crowd- i ed with people who were then alleged tn have been engaged in gambling, i They were mustered together while ! motor ear.' were ivi|tiisit iom-d, and! were conveyed to the Mount' Cook I Station. ; The majority seemed to he prin twallv youths, although there were a number of older men. one being a feeble old man who had to he assisted mi,i one of the cars. A large crowd a-semliled to watch the proceedings, and the conveying of the men away in cars occupied some considerable time, as only lour ai a time were removed. ( < LXSTARI.E ASSAULTED. TE EX ITT. April ■*. About 111. Id p.m. on Easter Saturda.v, Constable J. Dawson endeavoured to quieten three Maoris, who were lie- > having in an ohieetiouahle manner in I t'ne main street, apparently under the 1 influence of liquor. As he turned to walk away, one of the natives jumped on him ami Imre him to the ground. . when it is alleged that the other two , natives assaulted him whilst down, t with some violence, lie was picked < up unconscious an hour later. It was i found his >: juries were not as serious as at hi. , supposed, being confined (o ■ face and imad. A native named ■ Ruku wr.s aiTi ted on Tuesday, and , barged wills assault. He was re- , man-.!, 1 to \i;ekland for seven days. I Two oik.ci unlives were arrested this 1 iiieruiug, but were released, as Con- 1 table Daw on louhl not identify them, j Cor,st..hie Dawson has recovered and j has resumed duvv. .