LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 August 1931, Page 5

LATE LOCALS.

! ‘I have nothing much to say about Parliament at present,” saicl Dr H. T. J. Thacker, when he was proposing tko toast of ‘Members of Parliament” at the annual reunion of the Canterbury Owners’ and Breeders’ Association, “but I would have a lot,to say about them if there was a fusion Government. “All three Parties should bo represented on it. ,It ; ..would be better for the country, and would save the cost of an election, at least £120,000. ■A police constable at full speed down • church, from Cathedral half-past eight" on Moßday' v eveii!h'l| 'attracted some attention ( biTt%only a few of those who watched him nr- i gent was his mission. He w|p '|n pur- * suit of a_ tall, thick-s|t man, a few moments before walked caWly up to a middle-aged man—standing in a well-lighted part of “tKp and struck him a violent" blpwl>tii the face. With his nose the injured man called ® ntl both started in who’ Raß *’started off;Sfcester street. ' Confusion of pedes- - trians aa to the taken “ delayed the chaae long enough to enabjy him t« elude his purfipersujl yl ,r; b- zbA s • Jij.’r “Three ia*™ Persia at present ,t£ pijpfte receptive, attitude towam' ideas and toward Chwklii ty H itself" said the Rev. W. Wilsorr^Qish 1 !!?- thA>IC course of an addvesfr:r.at , :tthe. , Hall, Christchurch. "The first, which is an anti-Moslem movement, comes from Turkey, which Mohammedanism. From" Russia, 1 ' Persia is receiving emissaries of Bolshevism. I found signs of this influence everywhere, and there is no doubt that Russia is trying t-o fetter Persia to the Soviet. India, with its nationalist ideas, is also playing a part. The result of all this is a. revolutionising and_ modernising of Persian life, one of : the indications of which is that you can now see the worst kind of films in , the country, as well as aeroplanes and I motor-cars.”

At a meeting of commercial beekeepers held in Christchurch on Saturday, concern was expressed at the ance in the House of Representatives of a Bill to regulate local marketing of honey. It is proposed to constitute a board with compulsory powers of control over the marketing of honey in New Zealand. The measure is strongly objected to hv an. important section of producers, more especially by producers of high-grade honey. Those present at the meeting unanimously resolved; to use every means to combat the proposed Control Act, and formed themselves . into a Growers League for this purpose. It was decided to write to the Prime Minister protesting against the proposed legislation. A committee was appointed to frame suitable regulations to form the i constitition of the league. , »