DOMINION ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 2 June 1931, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS

STRANGERS REFUSED ASSISTANCE UNEMPLOYMENT AT HASTINGS. (By Telegraph —Per Press Association) HASTINGS, May 29. Despite the warnings published in the newspapers following the earthquake, people came to Hastings with the idea of obtaining work. Many are now at the' end of their resources and on the verge of destitution. Hastings has 600 unemployed of its own and, in view of that fact, the A\elfare Committee decided that strangers coming here destitute were ineligible for assistance from local funds. Strangers not possessing adequate resources come to the district at their own risk. PR OHI BIT! (>N 0 R DEB R,EVERS ED. A GRATEFUL APPLICANT. AUCKLAND. May 29. Percy Matthews successfully appealed to the• Magistrate, Mr F. K. Hunt, for a reversal of a prohibition order granted recently, his doctor stating that it was necessary in his state of health for him to drink s tmit. When the Magistrate made an order that Matthews could liavt© a jar of stout produced by Detective-Sergeant Kelly, Matthews exclaimed: “Good-bye, and God bless you!” ILLICIT TRADING. DUNEDIN, June 1. That exorbitant goodwills or rentals were causing the licensees to resort to illicit trading, and that unless reductions Were made there would be more 'frequent breaches, were points put before the Licensing Committee by Police Inspector Cummings to-day. The Committee endorsed this and called for a-remedy by all Interested persons. The Inspector said that there had been a large increase in the convictions duo lie considered to overhead charges in some hotels compelling licensees to resort, to alter hour trading to meet their obligations. D> some cases where the licensees were obeying the law it was only a matter of time when' they would lose all. • REFORM LEADER. ASHBURTON, June 1. Air J. G. Coates paid his first visit to Ashburton to-dav. addressing a gathering of farmers at the. s.ale-yards and a packed-meeting in llik Majesty s Theatre in the afternoon. Mayor Woods presided. The Opposition Leader dealt with the wheat duties, the economic position and the fusion question on. the lines of his addresses elsewhere. A vote of thanks and confidence 1 was passed. He- to Wellington to-night.