DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1923, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS.

[nv TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION'.] I'i.EXTY OF OPIUM. SMUGGLED AT AUCKLAND. AUCKLAND, April 80. Investigations by the Customs officials reveals that opium is being smuggled into Auckland in fairly large bulk. In Friday’s raid, in Ponsonby Road (not Grey Street) over 51b weight of it was discovered in a Hindu fruit shop. The legitimate retail price is 10s per ounce, but it is known that Asiatics here have offered as much as £ls per ounce. All LIT ARY DEFAULTERS. CHRISTCHURCH, April 30. The New Zealand Cricket Association to-night decided to recommend all affiliated associations to debar military defaulters horn playing cricket in matches under their control The question arose out of a letter from the General-Secretary <if the R.S.A. PUT BACK TO PORT. AUCKLAND. April 80. Trouble occurred on the liner Whnknane. which was compelled to put hack to port, after leaving for the West of England ports. It was with the engines in the refrigeration plant. It was stated to-day that repairs will he effected in two clays, and the AYhakatane will sail on AVednesJay. DREDGE CAPSIZES. NF.AY PLYMOUTH, April 30. About noon to-<lny the Harbour Board's Dredge, '1 homas King, while engaged depositing stone on the breakwater extension, capsized owing to the skip not working properly. Of tho crew of five, two reached the breakwater safely and a boat- picked up the other three, but one of them, J. Brokenshire, engineer and an elderly man. was dead, apparently having been drowned. REPLY - TO AYOAIEN'S COUNCIL. (ASHBURTON, April 30. The Chairman of the Hospital Board has replied to the National Women's Council as follows: —“I have boon correctly reported, but certainly did not mean to connect any mental degenerate or epileptic with any good gitl, and, in mv opinion, no treatment can be too harsh for those individuals.”