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Hokitika Guardian, 16 April 1926, Page 2

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[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] COAIAI UNICATION WITH AUCKLAND. VANCOUVER, April M. Wilkins is greatly pleased with communicating with Auckland. He used a thirty-five metre wave length. STILLS IN U.S.A. WASHINGTON, April 11. General Andrews, officer in charge of tlva- enforcement of prohibition, giving further evidence before the Senate’s Committee that is inquiring as to tile dry law’s operation and elfects. told the committee that he believed that if there were a modification of the Federal Enforcement Act, so as to encourage the use of mild alcoholic beverages, it would aid ill prohibit ion enforcement, 11 wits estimated, lie said, that about 1,720,000 liquor stills are now operating in the United States, with, ail average rapacity each of forty gallons per day. When cross-examitied, the General stated that his opinion, as a man and as a citizen, was that the present conditions as to the homo distilling ol liquor were seriously injurious to the morals of the home. Figures were then introduced which showed that tlie number of stills that have been seized has increased from 95,935 stills in 1921 to If2,. r 137 stills in 1925. General Andrews admitted that lie has often hired informers, from the underworld, to obtain evidence. Senator Reed, the only “Wet” member of the Committee, declared that “some laws could be more criminal than crime itself.” The old English law. permitting the hanging of a man for killing a rabbit, he said, was more criminal than the act of killing the rabbit. Anyone who held a contrary opinion to that was heartless, and olio vvbo allowed Ills enthusiasm to rise to the point of insanity; MOTOR TRANSPORT. AN AMERICAN VIEW. NEW YORK. April 15. A teie’grhhi lf'oiil Kansas City. Missouri, states that Mr Kid pit Budd, President of the Great Northern Railways Company, in ail address Bel ore the American Society of Civil Engineers,declared that the automobile industry was so great that the railways now gain more from the ireiglit traffic that the automobile industry gives- than they lose front the freight and the passenger traffic takau away by tbc automobiles. Air Budd said that the railways must realise that buses aiid trucks arc now essential !<> (be: railways in certain communities under certain conditions, because each such unit ol transportation being small, r*as so milch cheaper to operate. The inlays could give a more frequent service m rival cofifiiniuities than the trains. Mr Bud'll said Hint-there'are about twenty-live hundred thousand motor trucks in the United States. M«n> of these were used by tM nuhva.'s for tlie assembling of their Ireiglit. instead of switch engines, and also instead of freight trains for short uistiinco hauls. EMPIRE UNITY. OTTAWA, April 14. Professor SiniddY, (be .Irish free State Minister at Wasfilhgfni. told all audience at tlie Canadian Club here:, including many Parliamentarians, that the host minds ol Great Britain aio opjiOsfcd to setting down any definite bounds to restrict the evolution of the British Empire. Just as the British Constitution is aii ufiwritteit one, built is the result of development, lie said, so the relationships among the various portions of the British commonwealth of nations should grow, thus meeting the exigencies as they arise, and deciding by conferences, mutual understandings and discussions, what steps should be faken. W ith each ot the member States of the British Empire occupying tlie same psoition, tlie question arose as to whether this would affect the diplomatic unity of the Empire. If any part ot the Empire declined to participate in a war in which Britain is engaged, and if, the enemy would only retrain from attacking that part of the Empire on the condition that it seceded from the Empire, what, asked Professor Smiddy, would be the result ? Professor Smiddy considered that the danger of such a situation arising would result in no question which might involve war being acted Upon by Britain until there bad been a complete understanding, by means of joint deliberations, in which each self-gov-erning part of the Empire would have an equal voice. Professor Siniddv also pictured the day when the British Empire would , develop into, a still greater unity of nations. WRESTLING. NEW York, April 10. At Portland. Thye defeated Bill}' Edwards, of Kansas City, in straight falls.