GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 251, 13 March 1913, Page 8

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

) 1 ■*- mm* ■ " *- [ THE DEFENCE ACT. , ißy Telegraph.—Pot Press Association. :| " Wellington, Lust Niglit. ]\ The Education Board this morning , had before- it tlio report of the eommit- \ tec on the. Department's circular rcI'garding the enforcement of the Defence i Act. The committee reported that, it ■ had adopted a resolution to the effect .jllijit the enforcement of this Act was ,'no part of t-lits .functions of the Board. ; but after discnunion the Board decided simply to receive the circular without comment. \ THE TRAMWAY BOYCOTT. ■ Tnvercargill, Last Niglit. ■ The executive of the local branch of the W.C.T.U. denies that it was responsible for the inauguration of the boy'cott of the tramways in connection with the refusal to accept tickets hearing liquor advertisements. Mrs. Harrison ; Lee Cowie. the nodicense lecturer, in 1 a letter to the press, says that she acted on her own initiative in the matter, without the authority of the executive, to which she will later report the proceedings she had taken. J THOSE SOUTHLAND LEASES. I Invercargill. Last Ninht, | Ylr. Oavin Brighton, in a letter to lb" J Southland '.limes, slates that personal!)' he does not intend to prosecute an nn,.peal in the land ease. Tf the lessees in [■perpetuity desires further proceedings to ■he taken they will have to find the ne.eessary money.