DISTRICT NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 August 1918, Page 3

DISTRICT NEWS.

TARIKI. , (From Our Own Correspondent,)' Tuu uuuiiiU 01 cue i'ariki i'uiriutic Society was held on .Uuuday cu-mng, Air. A. J£. .Lawrence, chairman. j»resiuiii!-. Tue baiauce-ssaeet already j'UlHisned iu tue Dauy .News; was adopted, on tiie motion oi the cnairmaii. Jir. Lawrence also referred to tne gouu. won; i'.cuunpusueu by tue society, particularly lua iauies, and trusted tliey would again receive tue .soiid support of tne district tins year. Tlie election oi oiiiceis resuited:—Executive Committee, Aiesdauies liiooii, Jewison, liotkin, and i>. Jo'.vs, -Uiss Thei'kieson, ana Messrs A JO. Lawrence, C- Voting, i.ason, T. and J. Tlier-l-:leson, I>. Jones, and K. Hoskiu. Messrs i.ir.vreiice and Hoskin were also reappointed ciiairmau and secretary re-.-jnictivel,,'. Besides the amounts already received to p ovidj Christmas for tlie men at tne front, the secretary desires to I acknowledge the following:—Mrs. Coutts ! i'l, J. I aris 10s, Alti B. James, Misses ft and W. Kilsfoy, Ede, and L. Laurence, j aud Messrs C. ilogati, W. Jakes, <J. .tether, W. Butler, u. lioil's, R. Hucker, T Donald, A. Bergman us each, Masters A. and M. Kilsby and 'Mr. U. Petherbridge 2s Gd, Mr. and Mrs. Utmiball £1 each (for East); and Messrs W. Mather £1 ar.d Billinghurst £1 10s and J. Fabisli (for West). The Tariki Patriotic Society lias received a further letter from Sir James Allen, concerning the alien question, in which it is stated "that part I of the War Regulations Act, 1017, makes it an otf'enee for an 'alien enemy' to acquire lanl in New Zealand, and provides machinery for the forfeiture to the Crown of land acquired by alien enemies. It is pivi'AM'd to extend this legislation so a3 to prohibit the acquisition of land in New Zealand by persons of enemy origin who are not 'enemy aliens' within the strict meaning of that term. This legislation, when passed, will meet the cases to which referenoe has been made by the Tariki Society."