DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 79, 26 November 1912, Page 8

DOMINION NEWS.

(Per Press Association.) (Auckland, November 25. The anniversary of the establishment of the Total Abstinence Someth was celebrated to-night by a banquel tendered to Admiral King Hall, win said he attended to show his sympathy with the temperance movement, bid he was not associating himself wit! the pol'tical aspect. He referred tr drink and its effect on the efficiency cf the navy. It was most important at the present day to maintain thr utmost limit of efficiency, and the mar behind the gun had to ho tuned up to the greatest degree of efficiency. The Prime Minister said that our existence as a nation and an Empire depended on the naval defence of thr overseas dominions. We should spend more on naval defence than in the ’"•st. The yearly contribution of New ''’""land towards the navy was £250.000. including interest on the cost n r a I'-'ttlcsh’p, hut it the battleship tvnr paid for to-morrow, the contribution would not be decreased. TP AMWAY DEBENTURES. Invercargill, November 25. The Invercargill Borough Counei 1 to-day placed a parcel of tramway der-trie lighting debentures, which '•ov; r,old at £99 10s. The debenture? a currency of seventeen years o-.t |,o-r interest at 1) per cent, with n s olving fund of one per cent. INTERVIEW WITH MR. FISHER

Christchurch, November 2d. flip course of an interview, th r T- T ~*i. F. M. B. Fisher stated that. o> his return to Wellington he intends rung out to Terawhiti wth the offi c"'r of tlie Marine Department to hear r-P joP os to where a liedit should h f n' nr, ed. Re oar din g tariff revision, In s-'d that it would he undertaken nev J -■'•vinn, °nd he also hom'd that tha 1 the Trades Description Rill would h' maced on the Statute Rook. This Ril rv'nddes that every importer of good?

..• c;t declare on the invoice the eountn of r»v : ciu of the goods, and if former fr-'o-ds they would he taxed as foreign r -v ought to ho taxed against Rritisl ,-annfaeturers. With reference to t l n Military Pensions Act, he stated that the necessary departmental form; v re ready for circulation, and poster? regard : n tt the 'Act would soon he post ed at every railway station, post office a id old age pension office. AX ENDOWMENT QUESTION. Christchurch, November 2d. fu Canterbury College v. the City Council, an application for a declaratory judgment as to the right of the public rhrary to participate in certair endowments, Judge Denniston helc that the library property participate) in the allocation of revenues from the endowments. It is left to the Colleg* Board, which, however, must exorcist its discretion in good faith.