DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 February 1924, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

[by TELEOUArH —I'EK PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

RAILWAY .JIGGERS COLLIDE,

TAUAIARUNUI, Feb. 4

A head-on collision occurred between two railway jiggers oil tlie railway bridge half a mile north of I aumnrunui at 10.30 on Saturday night. As a result Cadet F. .). Gardiner wax thrown over the side ol a bridge and is now in the hospital in an unconscious condition.

DROWNED. CARTERTON. February 4. Wilfred A'iles, aged 33. the single sop of doshia A'iles, one of Fentherston's oldest residents, was drowned in ilie sea at Lake Ferry yoterdav. AA'ith a nephew he went to swim in Palliser Ray and was caught in a treacherous undertow and carried to sea. The an :- dent was witnessed by a nuniher o! people, hut it happened so suddenly that no assistance could bo rendered. The body was recovered.

BEER TN DRY AREA

CRICKET ASSOCIATTOX'* DTLE.MAIA. ASHBURTON, Fehrnary <■ ■‘Should liquor he imported lor the entertainment of visiting cricketers?

This question exercised the mind.-, of members of ihe Ashburton County Cricket. Association meeting on Saturday night, which finally decided to impact soiiH it required by the Australian tic.veil, which arrive here next '1 uesda\. The discussion arose tlimugh a remark by a member that some rolioshment of this sort would he desirable. C. U. Andrews took another view, knowing that the Ashburton County was a “no-liecnso" district. The Australians, he said, would not expect any ale to bo provided and it might he a rellectien upon the district if the liquor was provided in view of Liie county's “diy-

■'Jt would I e an uisiili nut to oiler any." .-aid Mr 11. Millii iiuinp. The Chairman (Air 11. Boddingtou) reminded members that the Australian were catered lot in tin.- direction en their last visit. AD- Pritchard believed iii.it many visitoi :• would like a glass of beer. Was liquor piovidod with a ground luncheon in un-lieensed areas, Ue asked. Air Thomas: “No, but it can generally ho obtained at the sociclary's office.’’ In this matter, he continued, they would be up against it and must be careful regarding the | dice sergeant v. l:n was rather particular. Atr I'ritehard again urged that the ale be provided. There was no need, lie said, to make the function an ‘‘open slather.” but he would like to sec the visitors catered for if they so wished.

BAND CONTEST. ASHBURTON. Eel,-. -I

The First Canterbury .Mounted Rifles baud at Ashburton, meeting yesterday. unanimously resolved to compete at Palmerston North as well as

at Christchurch. It is understood they are the only southerners competing at Palmerston.

AIORATORII*At CONTROVERSY ASHBURTON, Ecb. 1

The “Guardian" editorially ,-ays an astonishing result has followed the relent controversy respecting the moratorium. Tim daily papers in the four cities invited leading commercial lawyers to express an opinion on the elfeet of Die moratorium on the statute ol limitations, which cancels debt., alI'ecled it left dormant for a certain period. Replies in the lour cities showed New Zealand lawyers are sharply divided on the essential point. Christchurch and Auckland lawyers stated emphatically that the moratorium suspended the statute of limitations. Dunedin and Wellington. including Sir Francis Bell, declares the moratorium did not im - pend the statute. It is therefore a fair deduction that half tile uivseis m the Dominion possibly advised their clients that they need not proceed against defaulting debtors till the moratorium expired. As 'the Attor-ney-General’s declaration shows such advice is absolutely erroneous, the appeal that Parliament repair the omission hy passing a short law retrospectively suspending the statute during the moratorium appears unanswerable.