DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 July 1918, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS.

DOMINION WAR LOAN'S. By Telegraph.—l'ress Association. Wellington, July 8, Tlie Acting-Finance Minister states thai of tiie loan?, amounting to '3B niil' lions, authorised in li> 17, there remain- ; ed £1,029,000 not raised. A, fresh war loan of £9.500,000 was issued in ! March last, and the subscriptions amounted to £ 10/182,380, and the whole 1917 authorisations have now been oversubscribed by ,02.3:5, 135. | CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS. Wanganui, July 18. Regarding the alleged ill-treatment of ■ inmates of the Wangtlnui detention barracks, tiie Wanganui Returned Soldiers' Association passed a resolution desiring to assure the Minister of Defence that , they were satisfied that no undue liardt ship was meted out to occupants of the barracks- The association was convinced that tiie treatment was infinitely better than in the military camps. 3 APPEAL COURT. Wellington, .July 18. The Court of Appeal gave judgment to-day on the appeal by Frank J. Oake.s, licensee of the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel, against a conviction on a charge of permitting gambling on his licensed premises. The licensee had issued orders j that there was not to be betting in the 5 hotel, and was not present when tiie alleged gambling took place. 1 The court, allowed the appeal and - quashed the conviction. THE RABBIT NUISANCE. r Wellington, July 18. At the Council of Agriculture, the Waikato remit was carried: That the conference recommends to the Government that the Rabbit Nuisance Act be 1 1 amended in the direction of making it ' applicable to country held by both ! small and large holders, and to that end t the conference suggests that parts 3 and A of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1908, ie amended and joined up into one worki able part providing for more extended rating than is already allowed in the Act. but with 110 further subsidy on rates than Jie 3-Hid as at present provided nuler part 3 and ivitti powers to borrow for rabbit proof fencing, the area over which a board may be created to be reduced to 300 acres or more.