DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 June 1927, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

[UY TKI.EGKAI-H —I’ER TRESS ASSOCIATION.]

LIUEXSING REQUEST.

WELLINGTON. (i----t iho annual meeting of tlie Licensing Committee. tho chairman. Sir Ridiloll, S.M.. dealing with the police report, said that the conduct of hotels generally was satisfactory. hut tlieio had been three prosecutions for selling adulterated liquor. "The committee regards tho offence of adulterating liquor as a very serious one, which, if continued, would warrant the cancellation of the licenses of the particular licensees who indulge in the practice,” said the chairman. “The public must he protected. Licensees are expected to sell good liquor of standard brands, and should not make profit by means of adulteration.”

THREE AVIATORS KILLED. NEW YORK, June f>. At Fort Worth. Texas, three aviators were killed when tlieir machine fell 503 feet and hurst into flames.

TV EAT IIER FOR EGA STIXG. STATION OX LORD HOWE ISLAND. WELLINGTON, June 0. With the advent of Dr Kidson to the Meteorological Office at the end of next month, the Government is to consider a proposal for the establishment of a. wireless station on Lord ITowo Island, for the purpose of picking up and ro-trnnsniittiiig weather reports from ships at sen. Under arrangement with master mariners, the Australian Commonwealth now receives many observations from vessels in the Tasman Sea. and paradoxically enough has often been in a position to give, better forecasts of New Zealand weather than were possible on this side because of kick of sufficient data, this for the reason that practicallv all storms which strike New Zealand approach the Dominion from a westerly direction.

When Dr Mnrsden was in Australia some months ago. lie arranged that as many observations as possible should be sent to the Now Zealand .Meteorological Office, hut the position cannot be satisfactory until a special station is devoted to the work. Thus it is proposed that the New Zealand Government and the Commonwealth authorities should share the cost of constructing a. wireless station on Lord Howe Island, which is ill an excellent geographical position lor the work. It is understood that the cost would not 1)0 heavy, and that operation expenses would he quite low, while the more complete data would he of great value to meteorological work in the Domin-

GHINIiSF-i TURMOIL. AUCKLAND. June 0. With war practically at her hack door, with rifles firing till the time, cannons ltomning, and snipers shooting in the streets, Dr Phyllis ILuldow. Anglican medical missioner, lived in Shanghai for two months as a refugee. Now she has come hack to her home in Epsom, Auckland, after working in turbulent China, for three and

a.-lialf years. She arrived by the Maunganui to-day. and she has many stories to tell of Chinese life, during the last few months. Dr Haddow. who is on nine months’ furlough, was stationed at Hangchow hospital, which accommodates OHO people. Things git too hot for the whites in the city, and the British Consul told them to go, because the Red 'Army was approaching. The handful of British fled only a few hours before the Red Army took charge. They made the British Concession in Shanghai their home.

“The Communists have lieen the cause of all The trouble,” says Dr Haddow. They came in unci told the innocent Chinese that they would give them higher wages and heller conditions and that they would he better ofl all round. Trades unions were formed, hut the increase the people gol in wages was handed over to the unions, the union people saw to that. Promises to reduce the price of rice, the staple food of the Chinese wore not kept. The Chinese believed all the wicked lies they were told by Communist agents, who carried out elaborate proi pnganda. AVlion the white population was given ten days’ notice to leave Ha nohow there were 300 patients in the wards of the hospital, ISO of them being wounded .soldiers of the Northern Army, hut when the Red Army took charge the patients totalled only 88. This was due to the fact that people did not wish to enter the institution and ho cared for by the .Red Army surgeons, who were but three in number. The curfew system was used, and any person found out after ten o’clock was likely to he locked up until six next morning. All who entered by any of the three gates were searched for firearms and explosives. Occasionally officials of the invading forces drove through the city, but always rode in armoured cars, which, in addition to carrying soldiers on the running boards, were protected by a cordon of guards, who stood with bayonets fixed along the sides of the highway.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. AUCKLAND, Juno 6. A woman aged 39, whose name was suppressed, was admitted to probation this morning for attempted suicide at Henderson on condition that she keeps away from that town. She bad an argument with a resident and jumped into a nearby creek. She made a previous attempt on her life a month ago.

N.Z. BEEF SLUMP. AYE I. LING TON, June 7. The raising of beef lias become unprofitable, and it is stated by the New Zealand Meat Board that, if something is not done quickly, New Zealand will soon cease to be an exporter of beef. Should this position eventuate, it is stated, it will have a very serious effect on the general prosperity of the country, and as New Zealand’s beef production is interwoven with its sheep, lamb and dairying industries, it will mean that the main primary products will lie checked in their development. The Meat Board cannot too strongly emphasise the gravity of the disaster if beef-raising were allowed to lapse as an unprofitable industry. The seriousness of the whole position is at once made clear by the following figures, showing the export of beef for recent years. The number of cattle killed in the Dominion for export for the past five years is as follows: Season. nead. 1922- 125.083 1923- 80,707 1924- 114,637 1925- 53,898 1926- 30.000 (estimated.)

STORAr DAMAGE. DUNEDTN. .Tune 7. The premises of F. and F. Afartin, j furniture and piano warehouses, were damaged to the extent of £l5O. Half of the roof was torn off. | The old Arcade Block, owned by the Arcade Coy, suffered considerably. The skylights were shattered and the small shops damaged. j

AYELLS’S APPEAL SUCCESSFUL. AUCKLAND, June 7. A special meeting of Auckland District Committee to consider the appeal of Mervvn AYe 11 s (owner) and AA T . H. Reid (rider) of the horse Memsahib, against the decision of the Auckland Racing Club’s Stewards in disqualifying them for twelve months, from June 4th. was held to-day. The official report states that, after hearing considerable evidence that was not before the Stewards, it was unanimously resolved: That the appeal of M. AA'elTs against the decision of the Auckland Racing Club’s Stewards be upheld, and that the £5 deposited by him he returned.” I The appeal of AY. H. Reid, the J jockey, was dismissed, and his £5 de-J posit was ordered to he returned to him. j