DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 August 1924, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

nr TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSN., COPYRICHT. QUEENSLAND COTTON. WELLINGTON, August I. Amongst the passengers hy the Tahiti to-day from San F.iancisco, was Mr I’rc.l (!. Brown, of Toogoolawah, Queensland, a prominent farmer of that State, and a well-known breeder of Friesian tattle and Duroc Jersey ,pig's. Air Brown has just completed a trip to England and the I'nited States. Mr Brown sav.s. np ropes of the likelihood of a cotton shortage in the I'nited Stales, that Queensland is likely to he tt factor with tin increasing output, lie states that five years ago there were only 72 acres under cultivation, hast year tho:e were 108,000 acres. The cotton produced in Queensland is worth Com 2Jd to 3d per lb more than American ’•middling.” whi'li is the basis on which cotton values are made. There is tt company in Queensland called the Australian C’ot ten Growing Association. its main objects being to erect ginneries and mills for utilising the product of the cotton seed. They hav-:' already erected four giiinerys in Queensland, and one in New South Wales, end are now engaged in creeling cotton mills. This company is about .10 per cent. Australian, and AO per cei.t. English, the shareholders in England Icing principally interestVd in cotton spinning. BETTING I’HOVFt I’TION. AN IMPORTANT J I'ODAIF'NT. t PALMERSTON *>’•• August I. Reserved judgment was delivered today hy Mr I. I . Stent, S.M.. in the i a.-e in which II tt fold Charles Howes was charged tint on (livers dates between July 7th. and July oth. 1021. being the keeper ol a public bar. he did use it as a common gaining house. IJouc.i was also charged that on July ftth.. he did publicly exhibit a double card ( n the Winter Hurdles ami Steeplechase hold at \\ ellington on July tub. and 12th. the said document containing a intilhation as to betting on t.e rai'chot ses. After quoting tan decisions in similar i a -('.■; given hy Mr -I list it c Salmond the .Magistrate said the evidence in the (rt -eat case was that a (unstable Wits specially instru: ted to make bets with defendant in the bar. The win l was in, niielii-dve to prove the use ol the liar as a lasts for hotting operations. In the pn.-ei.t ease the eoni.iable actually waited until the dolemiant lame on duty to telievc the j roper liarntan, and on am.thee pi: :t----i i, n not fmdtiig fhe defendant in the public bar, sought him out at t! a , rivale I sir at.d made it Let with him thcic. In t!:e opinion of the Bench, then fore, the prosecution had not convim it'gly pi lived the Inca I i-at ion of a Letting business in the bar, and the Jnfiit'iiintinn should lie dismissed. "I have dealt with the case on the :i.--sumpliot; that the defendant actually took the I lets hini-c/f.” stilted Air Stout, ‘-(.lit there is a question (which was not free of doubt, whether he Was not merely | tilting .money on with a bookmaker at the request of the i unstable. The ether question I have to determine is whether the handing of double cards to the constable on r: quest is publicly exhibiting a <l<>< nnieiit containing a nolilicaticn as to bettim; on a la e. A document is deem.'il to ■! e publicly exhibited w hen it is o; etily exhibited within the view o> jet - its in the hotel. I here t- no doubt that the :atil was exhibited, hut rt the request of two poisons who 'were the only (.ties in the liar, lit lhe t esc.t iit.se the exhibiting was mole in the natir.o of a private exhibition on request. II a conviction

wepe ie orde l in the pre.sent ctse, then any ) erson who ha;.pencil In ho in the po.-si'.-sion of a bi-nkumkerV dould'e can', and who shewed it to a (oil| !<• i f friends a! their ieque-1 in ~ (i l 111 -I i cel. eou!(| I e ("111. let! cl ouo'er the .-.e ta.n although no other |e.;snn s;nv the lerd. I think, ilic.eI'nre. l eal this inlorim: t i .>ll should al-o be disini.S'i'd. SHORTAGE OF DOAIFSTICS. Al'C'K LAND. Aug. I. A stalemeiit niad.e recently by lb' Rev (11. (tram (iiitcii to the elfeet lhat many women and girl- ale "down and out" in Auckland i- scouted by a pi'einineiii ni'-ilical nirn, who states that his wife has heen advertising tor a lirtnigl'.t for ;i general, and Im:- md received even one reply. The same authority has some unfavourable com.meats to ilia!'? concerning tlm qnaiifii aliens of girl immigr:ints who come to

the Dominion for domestic service. They invariably bring two testimonials, the (Fetor states, which apparently tire iudispeusihlo t , their being ai'cejil'.'il under the immigration .scheme, hut to all intents and purposes the dot e incuts are valueless. A large percentage id the girh' are. in his oiiiuinll. absolutely useless for domestic service. SIZE OF FAMILIES. AICKI.AND. Aug. I. A warning to young people about to be married amused a large audience in Auckland last evening. Mr Armstrong. Labour M.P. fir Christchurch East, slated during a lecture that Hie Ari.ilration Court was accustomed to I,x wages on the hare necessities of life, which were estimated on the basis ■if a family id' two children, the Court declining to accept Labour advocates’ contention that the average latnily in New Zealand was of three children. "Let me tell you young people.” Mr Armstrong rent innod, amid laughter. "that ai cording to the law and the iiiling of the Arbitration Court ir volt have more than two children you have broken the regulation.” "Oh. 1 have lirok'.'ii it years ago," he added hastily, "but those regulations were not in force at the time.’

A SALCTABY T.ESSON. AUCKLAND. Aug. 2. The theft of a Chevrolet ear from a parking area in Commerce street on duly mil. resulted in three lads appealing at the Juvenile Court charged with e inverting to O'oir ow n Use a motor-ear valued at L*2oo. the property e.l* William J. Trustott. Iww <d the Fov- were brothers, one aged to and the other 17 years. The other accused is aj*J It! year-. The latter pleaded guillv to two (-barges of converting cars to Ids own i'.so. The brothers pleaded not guiltv The sixteen year-old hoysaid he formerly worked at a garage, and when one of the other bays said be would like to learn to drive, lie took the ear. subsequently abandoning it in a suburb.

Chief-Detective Cummings said that the boy who had driven the car admitted he had taken another ear from Commerce street. The eases were looked upon seriously*, as rue!] youthful and inexperienced nmterists were a menace to pedestrians. The ring-leader, who drove the ear. was olived on probation far a year on the first charge and fitted CIO on live second. The Magistrate said that the other two Fays knew quite well that the ear lind lieen taken, and they were equally to blame. They were also placed on probation for a. year. Air F. K. Hunt. S.M.. severely admonished the three and said that if they over touched I property that did not belong to them again, they would be sent to Mount ] Eden. DAIRY PRODUCE. WELLINGTON. Aug. t. !

The New Zealand Producers’ Cooperative Marketing Association’s weekly cabled report, dated London, Aug. Ist, is ns follows: *

Butter—The market is firmer. Quotations—New Zealand suited 188 s to 102." per cwt, unsnltcd 201 s; Australian 184 sto 18Gs; Argentine, unsalted 184 s to 104 s; Danish 2045; ltsthonian 100 s; Latvian 180 s; Siberian 150 s to 17().5. Cheese—The market in steady. Quotations—New Zealand white 02s to 04s, coloured 88s; Canadian the same price.