DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 April 1923, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

[l>Y TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WOMEN'S PROTEST. WELLINGTON. April dS. Tile following letter signed by the Secretary ol' the New Zealand National Council of Women was forwarded to the Chairman of Ashburton Hospital Board :—“Dear Sir.—The attention of this Council having been called to re- ! ports of your speech at a sitting of i your Hospital Hoard, at which the | sterilisation of degenerates was disj cussed. 1 am instructed to write to you ;on the subject. My Council is proS iouiidlv shocked at the statement atj tributed to you in the report. We feel j satisfied you could not have realised ; how harmful to the moral standard ol •' the country, such' a- view of the mariin go state must be. otherwise you : would not have expressed yourself in , i -util terms. As women working for ; tin wel[are ol the women and children 5 i m this country, we feel it our duty to “i j ]i,J you our nio-t emphatic protest .1 I against this view of marriage. No .] j State can hope to liecome great which degrades it- women m any way. and •j . such a doctrine as the one advocated : J i by you. must lower the w hole eon--1 i c.cplion of the relation of «e.\es and do 1 i untold harm to the rising generation." j ; SHORT WEI OUT TEA. ]i A MERCHANT FINED. 3 . „ j AUCKLAND. April i A tea merchant. Cyril Augustus -I I’afpie. who had carried on luisiness | under the name of the Person Trading ■| 1 Company, pleaded guilty to having sold I tea hearing a false statement “Jib ! net." purpiorting to iiidieate the weight .3 of the Lea. It was stated that of twelve packets '| weighed by an expert the net sliorl- | age in weight was found to !c ioz. j j l-ldr. It bad also been ascertained J i that no les.' than lid packets did not -j j contain the correct weight, j; In a letter dei'emlaut stated that the "J S umler-wright packages had been made J j up l.y an assistant who was ill. and J | this was probably the explanation. It -\ luul not been done knowingly.

Defendant, who was present, asked tile .Magistrate to take a lenient view of the ease. He had not offended wittingly and lie”, si-ales were being procured.

"Poor people buy tlie-e small packages," obse: veil his AYoiship. ‘'and I think there must have been something very wrong with defendant's conduct of the business, if he did not know that short weight packets were being made up. It was only a small business and it would have been ea-y to keep in touch with tilings and to see there vas no short weight. I will impo-e a substantial penalty L'do."

ROD A' POUND. >! MASTERTON. April dT. While fording entile through the Wlmrama River ibis morning Mr C. N. Stilborn found the body of a man “| considerably decomposed, lying in two b 5 feet of water. The body later was "J identified as that of Ertuik Alar-hall, pi aged thirty-three, a letuvned soldier. who had been working in the district a lor eighteen months. Deceased had s li been missing since April 14. e.tj " 1 y AIR .MASSEY’S ROUTH AT, a g PR EV ARK'.VITONK. 9 OA.MARE. April dd. Ri. gat dmg Air .Ma'-sey's statcmenl j tinat n Air .Mat I‘iicrsou is returned I"' I v'ciAi b*i''.. ti,:ijority of only three in til:' ! lilt c a nil hi- lit ivu I to ecu i c a : (j... olutn.ii if Mr Lee lb not elected. All : .Alaid’iier-i.u Pas reeei vt (1 the follow inn ’ i-lee.ruin from Air [•'. K. .Morion. A.mThnid .lon rnal i-1. ie-day:- "I was aj AH ALis-ey's '-irlt on the night of the Tauranga. election when be told the i i people that now .Ur AfavAliiian was . 1 ■ 1 1 1 1 there was no necessity lor another elect ion. Air Massey denial is! another addition to the long list ol his j I deliberate and insolent political pre- j | a.rh at ions'." j CONTROL Oil' M.R.'F WEI.idNCTON, April dP j A t'i.nfercnee of the 'I ratio Unionists i and represent:'!tires. of the Australian | Labour Party Executive lias a dinned j the principle of the Executive control |of the Pai liatneiiiary representative' of the Labour movement, believing that only through the exercise of mn-h tun: ml tan the Parliamentary caucus lie made responsible, ami maintain ("intact with the organised workers, and give expression to the principles ami police.' of the Labour movement. TRAC EDY AT WAIKOI'AI-TI. DUNEDIN. April '27. A tragedy of the lined was revealed

at. Waikeuuit i at an inquest on in j unknown swagger, about fifty-live year oi a.ge. The evidence shoved that : tent Wits seen alongside the Waikonait river on Sunday hut. when the -po was visited on Monday it had beet son:-;-- feet deep under water, and lot yards lie-low the body was found. Tin rise of the river had been so rapid tit a there was no chance of escape. Tin inquest was adjourned to endeavour t< ! ascertain the identity of the deceased | POSITION' IMPLOYED. J DUNEDIN, April 27. The Hood position is much improved Now that the Leith is resuming itnornial level it has been discovered that though bridges have been displaced none have suffered serious structural damage. The Taieri County Council engineer considers that a- Government grant or loan will he needed for the restoration of the Taieri bridges. OPIUM SEIZED. AFCK LAND. April 20. Yesterday the police seized a quantity of opium in Grey Street. No arrests yet have been made.