GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 209, 8 October 1909, Page 3

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

NORTH AUCKLAND TRUNK LINE. By Telegraph.—Press Association.. Whangarei, Thursday. lh reply to q, Chamber of Commerce resolution in favor of the eastern route for the Northern Trunk line, the Minister for Public Works states that the Government hasi definitely decided o adhere to the western route.

DRINK CONSUMPTION. ! Wellington, Thursday, j Regarding published statements tlut 1 no decrease.in drinking has-followed the establishment of no-licensc in specili i districts, Rev. J. Dawson has compiled for the New Zealand Alliance a return showing that the increase of duty paid on liquors per head in Oamaru, Duiedin, and Im-crcargill combined whic.i cover the four iio-license areas of Clutha, Jlataura, Oamaru and Invercargill w s tenpencc i:."V !:M(1, or a money value of (£7342. The increase in duty for t!i" rest of the dominion was 7s 3d per head, and as the Rev. Dawson sees no reason to. credit any decrease in drinking to the Otago licensed areas, he puts the whole difference to the four nolicense areas. He contends that if Otago hail increased its drink expenditure in !.. • -ame proportion as the re-it of the dominion, it would have had to pay in duty £05,278. instead of only 5£7342. . ' REUTERS. Wellington, Thursday. Reuters Telegram Company has declared an interim dividend for the'halfyear at the rate of five per cent, pn-i annum. PROPOSED PRISON-GATE HOME. Wellington, Last Night. In response to the representations by a deputation to-night, the City Council passed a resolution deprecating the proposal to establish a prison-gate home at Island Bay, and recommending that it be removed to the country. It was decided that the.Mayor and the Public Health Committee give the matter earnest consideration. A MUNICIPAL LOAN CARRIED. Palmerston N., Last Night. Pain: ' '<vi recently refused assent to a loan r ' 16.000 proposed by the Municipal Ci-':-!.'il for the waterworks, replac • Hies of seven-inch pipes with ....■■ .;i fifteen-inch, to permit of a greats', (low of water to the town. etc. The Council then proposed a £7OOO loan for the pipe portion of the scheme. This Was carried to-day by 415 votes to 185 jthe loan to-be raised at 5 per cent. 1 . =—====