DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 March 1924, Page 3

DOMINION ITEMS.

liv 'trr.Koit.u'ii—press assn., copvuk;iit. PROHIBITION PARTY. CHRISTCHURCH. March A At tlie Methodist Synod to-night, the Rev T. G. Brooke miis unanimously elected a life member of the Home Mission Board. Air J. -I. Royds ( President of the New Zealand Alliance), wailed on tho conference and delivered a brief address on prohibition. Mr Royds said many people in Non Zealand had heard little oi the Alliance during the past, twelve months, and thought that the Alliance Mas rest ing. The opponents ni prohibition Mere hoping so. Imt he

assured the conference- such Mas not the rase. Ihe past twelve months had been spent in preparation and <onsidcra I inn. Sine,, last election the Alliance had been analysing the situation in discover iis weak spots, and its ollieor.s had never had a harder time in . the service of Die body. The results t ol their work Mould appear between it(iw and next polling day. He did not propose lo go into details of the Alliance's a lieuie. lie -aid, because the plans Mere not yet passed bv the Wcllingtiiu executive, but he assured the eolileiciice Hint never I,('fore in fho history ol Ills body had its plans boon s(, complete prior lo an election. DROWNED OKU TRAWLER. AUCKLAND. March A. A receni arrival from England George Smith, aged about ,‘lO, Mas drowned through falling olf the steam trawler Ahuriri, of which he Mas mate, in the W.iihehe passage this morning II is. foot caught in Die hauling ropes of the (rauler and he muis dragged j overboard, lie m jis dead before being | hauled in four minutes later. It is j believed he has a wife in England. J A PAPAL HONOR. WELLINGTON. March o. The Rope Inis appointed Mniisigimr * Redwood, Archbishop of Wellington as assistant Bishop 1o Die Pontifical th rone. P. AND T. PROTEST WESTPORT. March A. A representative meeting of the Westport Branch of lb-' P. and T. As- j soeiat ion to-night resolved: “That this j, section pledges itself to support ally j action the executive deems necessary to obtain salaries of an equivalent purchasing power to those obtaining *n 101 I. and also to urge the Department immediately lo enforce the retirement of all (illieers having 111 years’ service” SEXUAL I’KRYKRTY. MEDICAL CO XT' ER'ENCE RESOLUTION. AUCKLAND. March A. ,< The Medical Confereiice n solved. Ou the motion of Doctor Kenneth MaeZenzie ■ “that, this conference can make no recommendation for surgical de-scxualisation in the treatment ol adult sexual perverts. The only safe- < guard for voting children in this null- ii ter is the perniain ul segregation ol Ha offenders, either in pi isou or on larnis for Die chronic mentally am! morally unlit. -o Dial luto.ro gciiorai ions may lieneli l. t hereby. Dr MacKciizie addressed Die conference at length ou the question. uud : cvcral oilier delegates spoke to the I ■ mil mu. .Inch iv as carried iimilliinoub- i

(OUN'TL'S PATRIOTIC MUY E. ASHBURTON, March tb I n order ilia l Die prulit s on iis hank - mg business shall remain in New /,e;ibind Hie Ashlntrl.on County Con.it d. for palritoie reason:., rersolved lo Dans for it- patronage from Die I iitoit Bind: of AusDaha <« Dm Rank ol Nr-w /•• ' land. The de(a .ion culminate.’ the period ol cousideratioii, uiili emphasis Kid on Die boniTils received trum ike State by various grants and cheap loans and the necessity ol reciprocal-j ing. The Council is M inting lo tho j Union Banks manager, emphasising I that personal relations Mere always j most cordial. CON EEBENCE OF POULTRY fatlmkrs. WELLINGTON. March A. | The Poultry As.-ociauoii delegates | met at the annual conference to-day j ami were welcomed by the .Mayor (.M‘ j R. A. Wright) and the Minister for A gi'i:-u1 1 lire (ITon Y) . Noswortliy ). L was stated that legislation mjis necesarv to put tin- industry on a sound footing. The most important matters to |-e niseii-sed were eiicaper food Jimfreight. W the pre-cut time jxiultryn,..it were paying twice as much lor fowl wheal as they should, this and other handicaps proving a serious obsj iicl... I" success. Ministers and -MciilI H i- of Parliament said they 'Acre prepare': to give the ivmiiiimndatioii.s ol ■ilte eotd'eieiiee f;i voiiriib'e coii-iderji-tion. MFT 11 ODIST CONFERENCE. (TII’I.STC'HURCTJ, -March 0. The Methodist Conference decided the next Conference he held at Taranaki Street Uhtireh. Wellington, cmnniciieing (111 Die last Thursday in KeK litarv R'-.A.