NAPIER ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 632, 8 October 1909, Page 11

NAPIER ITEMS.

••;■;.MBy'Toleßrapii.-Siicc-jal'"CorrMDono'eoi.).'"-.- j A; nr rf * x *' : '"' : -''-■' Napier,'" October 7. f .|JUl^.^q,v : delegato to the Congress -of "Chambers ■ of; Commerce- of . the ; Empire, : -receiitly,hold; in.-Sydneyf returned home this morning. Interviewed by ydurcor'i irespondent,. * oi -saFd neutral oii he question if preferential -trade, because he nnd recoived v uo .instructions ! .from the Napier V?^S ? - r i; ; '-?L erson^Jy '" Ke ''^ 3 not-at-all conV vinced:.by, the- arguments brought;forward .in' ?y°>'r,'t>fvpreferential:trade, and >} did not ■frrlSr J cr y t F«^rcsults;would coma trorai the -that; 'was passed;-. Ho was -much, more:,in- favour of; an .amendment: that was. moved .to tho" effect: that tho congress "ro?^fl th Tl" ? f ß s o^ mc , nt of a ; b°»d: oSerts -.", i -S' !Uni , tq<l ,I"ngdom, and all" other Slates' and .dependencies ; within t -:tha.Emt.ir"/to?con? J ■ i' ■ i J h ?'^ ul k'-°f-. t ha speeches delivered doyeloped ..mto 'a- dDbato'on-the: quesHon of t P h,V fh o » D^ n f ■""< tr , ad ?< , dnd * he «**«« °»red

w A -' t: - a !P!lv;? il1 ? . of !' 'he ,!Napier branch ;of' the :.«. ian!. Temperance' Union, Md last .evening,-.the following.. resolution 'was - adapted :i"T«is, meeting feels the™Sv oVi .. hjw ■ ;beiug; passec ,that it' curfew', belfbe runfir oh-w ns -V af which " ik :1 ™«ld be' iIS for children under, .a "certain.■ ago to be oiit ; without.* jpropor-.-.gnardians/'. ." ■ .° ," :' "' . . Upen-air band:,:concerts bv ' thh iWo,igh: Council' have - been- a-:featee ofsW .'Pe'--' '/.?, It-would' appear -flow- ■ c >-«l.: th?t ..tho'.council: has no - rift"to rah • Auditor:Genoral to- las* U*m< that such payments arc.i lega . .The Suiucirini tohave replied.thafho.did. not what W a the , dpinior, of tho: municipal:..solicitors TT„