AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 April 1923, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AI'STK.U.TAN AND N.Z. CUII.U ASSOCIATION. REPLY TO TK'<II’KI’iANC E DEPUTATION. SYDNEY. April (i. Tin.' Labour executive informed the Federal executive that it did not desire the hitler’s intervention in the dispute which was purely :i Slate concern. The. Minister of Justice refused a reijuest from a iemperance deputation to take steps to eliminate the compensation clause from the proposed prohibition legislation. The Minister said if prohibition was a pood thing, it vas worth paying for. Hotel-keepers were entitled to compensation i’m same as any others whose business was disturbed'. \ MAGISTRATE .EXPLAINS. SYDNEY. April (>. Mr Crane t Magistrate’) explained to the Minister of .justice that the miners oomisod him because be tried a miner in 'his cb .m . on a charge of allowing -ini k to strsiy. The prosoculor hnci okphiincd that the miner's child died the oivvious night. but the miner had intended to plead guilty. lie accepted the pica ami imposed a line, with ample »t. 1...1 .j liit-onvcMiicnt umc to pay. as Die I' llu ”"' pi'e.eednr • for the miner,

LICENSE- REDUCTION. SYDNEY, April S. lion Mr Lev stale- that since the inception of the Licenses Reduction |i n .,,,|. it ha- cancelled Ml I hold and wine liar licenses, and has paid compensation amounting to Cl 0f),290. A PROHIBITION. MEI.IHR'PNE, April S. The Cu I oius. IX pari mem has prolm filed Die importation of Boccaccio s “llc-. .nueroii.”