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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 87, 11 October 1915, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL » The mails which left Wellington on 26th August, and connected with the Suez despatch by R.M.S. OmralL, arrived in London on the 7th inst. — three days late. One unsatisfactory feature of the present recruiting ) system (remarks the Dunedin Star) is the fact that even if a man does, enlist the authorities have no claim on him until he goes into one of the training camps. At the present time there are no fewer than 185 men somewhere in Otago (a good many of them probably in Dunedin) who have enlisted, but have failed to ap-gear for medical examination. There are those who argue, and not without good reason, that the time is long past when tne man who " signs on" should be given the chance of going cold on his venture, and that the better scheme would be to let recruits enlist and be examined at the one time. But all the same, in the total of 185 defaulters there are a big number who never intended facing thie medical examiners. They are content to proclaim the fact that they have enlisted. And probably they call themselves " jolly good fellows." In a reply to the assertion by a union secretary that the Labour Department was not successful in prosecutions for breaches of award, it was stated in Friday's Post that 1890 prosecutions had been instituted in four years, and the Department had been "unsuccessful" in 1739. This was incorrect ; the paragraph should have read that the Department had been successful in the number first mentioned. A young man named Albert Durston, who, with, many others, broke through . the barriers at the wharf on Saturday, objected strongly -when spoken to by Constable Smith. As a result, he was charged in the Magistrate's Court today, before Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., with wilfully obstructing a police officer while in the execution of his duty. Durston stated that he was anxious to see his brother away, and, taking this into consideration, he_ was merely convicted by his Worship and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. "This case should act as a warning to .you as well as to many others, " said Mr. Cooper. " The barriers are there for a purpose, and I will be harder on any others "who are similarly charged at some other time." The Pope's appeals for peace were the subject of an address delivered at the People's Picture Palace by Mr. P. Hickey last night, under the auspices of the Social Democratic Party. The lecturer stated that while the Christian churches were being turned into recruiting agencies, the present Pope was wise in his day and generation, and concurred that the international Socialists' point as to racial barriers being a false doctrine was the right one. The Pope had shown courage and manhood, for he had made appeals for peace in the face of strong opposition. It was 'the call of humanity that appealed to him more than patriotism, and he would (in the speaker's opinion) yet play an important part in bringing about peace between the belligerent nations. A police raid on No. 2, Holland-street, last month, has had a sequel in the prosecution of several persons. Charles Cook is charged with selling liquor without a license ;. Daniel ( Morris with being the occupier of unlicensed premises in which liquor was sold ; Michael Morris. Agnes Hogg, Joseph Tobin, and Alexander Watson with being found on the premises. The cases were to have come , before Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M.. today, but, owing to the fact that counsel for the defendants (Mr. E. G. Jellicoe) was otherwise eDgaged, they were ad- j journed for one week. ' Let your top coat be a Burberry, ! madam! KirkcaJdie and Stains, Ltd., are sole agents for these celebrated and very smart coats. Fashionable 44-inch length, finest gabardine and tweed, 6 | and 6£ guineas. Inspect ! — Advt. Fine cloth, light-weight pyjamas for summer -wear, 10s 6d and 12s Gd; Tussore silk, 28s 6d. Geo. Fowlds, Ltd., MmnfiTft-etract. j