ALIEN ENEMY TRADERS.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 281, 26 November 1919, Page 14

ALIEN ENEMY TRADERS.

REMOVAL OF RESTRICTIONS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. Clause 24 of the War Regulations deal - ing with the question of trading with th< enemy provides that it shall not be law- .". ful for the registrar of companies to . issue a certificate of the incorporation of ~_ any company until the Attorney-General. S being satisfied that no enemy and no B enemy company posseses or is about to - acquire any interest in that company, • authorises the issue of such certificate. This clause is now amended by adding; the words "'or being satisfied that, notwithstanding the existence of such interest, the incorporation of the company is not contrary to the public interest" before the words "authorise the issue of such certificate." Clauses 26 (a), 20 (b), and 27 of the * regulations dealing first with the prohibition upon any alien enemy to carry on - business in New Zealand, secondly with - the prohibition upon any person to act T. as agent, servant, or partner of such ~ alien, and, thirdly, with the embargo ~ placed upon enemy aliens in respect to acquiring shares in any company incor- - porat.ed in New Zealand are all amended by the insertion at the commencement " of C clause of the words "save with the permission of the Attorney-General." The actions of a driver, William Clark, in the course of plying for passenger hire between Graf ton Bridge and the Domain on Labour Day, were reviewed by Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Police Court, when Clark was charged with — being drunk while in charge of a wagonette and two horses, and with having assaulted a taxi-driver, Gilbert Johnston. A number of witnesses on the one sido declared that Clark was not eober on the occasion in question, and galloped his team to anil from the Domain in foolhardy fashion in an endeavour to compete with the motor traffic, and that he tried to block passengers from en trance to Johnston's motor-bus bj jamming his team up against the rear Soor of the 'bus. Eventually Johnston and Clark came to blows, and the former stated that he had been provoked to use his fists in self-defence against the gratuitous use of the whip on him by Clark. Clark on the other hand, produced witnesses to testify to his sobriety, and he alleged that hie behaviour wak due to excitability caused by Johnston's provocation. The magistrate found against Clark, and fined him £4 and costs.