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Hokitika Guardian, 12 February 1924, Page 3

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TuE TRIALS OF A TASTER. OOOL) SCOTCH A XT) MOONSHINE. (Received this dnv at 10.10 a.m.) NEW YORK, Feh. 11. Walter Matthews, aged 70. who is Philadelphia's official buyer of intoxicants, is recovering from the cffci is of Winking. To evidence, lie said that, as a member of the dry .-(|iind. he lias heen systematically poisoned while teston; for evidence all hinds ol concoctions ‘Rom wood Scotch to iodined moonshine." Continuing, he said: “Sow that my health has heen rained 1 shall te-nitne work, hut not as a tn.stor." Matthews admiss that his official duties sometimes encompassed thirty alleged whiskies and forty heirs tlaiiv. CANADIAN PREMIER’S FIRST PRESS INTERVIEW. (Received this (lav at. IL’.-bT p.tn.) OTTAWA. Fob. 11 Setting aside a long standing rule, Mr Mae ken y. it? King accorded the first press interview since he assumed the Premiership, and in which he expressed satisfaction in connection with the efforts to extend trade between tho Dominions and the Empire. He declared that he believed wholeheartedly in preference arrangements in all cases where they would further the natural trade interests of the parties concerned ; hut he did not believe in advocating preference arrangements where they would disturb the established fiscal policy of the country affected. Canada desired to enoenrage inter-dominion trade, hut would not do this at the expense of her already established and necessary trade connection. He looked with satisfaction upon the efforts of Australia, Canada and the other dominions to encourage immigration and deprecated any attempt to characterise this as competition between the Dominions heca'isa there were sufficient suitable British immigrants for all.