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LOCAL AND GENERAL

There was a great glut of fish in Auckland last week, due to the successful operations of the municipal trawlers, and the price went down to 5s a basket. The catch of the two steamers waa eighty tons.

Mr. -Thomas Wilson, chairman of the New Zealand Liberal Party, presided at Mr. H. Oakley Browne's final meeting in the Sydney-street Hall on Tuesday night, not Mr. C. Wilson, as stated in the press reports.

The "list" at the Magistrate's Court this morning was1 the shortest that has been made'taut for a very long time, for the only names which figured upon it were those of three first-offending inebriates. Mr. P. L. HoUings, 5.M.., fined one of them 5s and convicted and discharged the others.

Judgments of the Court of Appeal will be delivered on Saturday morning in the cases of Fortescue v. Te Awamutu Borough Council, M'Grail v. M'Call, and in re Bradley, an application under the Land Transfer Act. The Full Court judgment will be given in the case of Brown and Brown v. Thornes, an Auckland land agency case. The official vacation of the Court dates. from the 20th December.

Writing on 30th October, The Post's London correspondent mentions that the Rev. C. F. Askew has received cheques for the Military Chapel to be built in connection with the new Cathedral at Wellington, from the Archbishop of Canterbury arid Mr. Lloyd George. Earl Haig has given two very interesting maps made by himself, showing the position^ of the enemy at the time of the armistice. It is interesting thus to note that the head of the Church, the head of the State, and the head of the Army axe all identified with the proposed Cathedral Memorial Chapel.

Letters from Rotorua, indicate that would-be visitors to the thermal regions took the prophecy of the American professor concerning the earthquakes and other disturbances that might be expected on 17th December very seriously. All the accommodation at Rotorua prior to the publication of the prophecy was fully booked up, "but, according to writers, a great deal of this was cancelled by nervous people who had expected to visit the district about the fateful day. One result of this was that scoffers -who had formerly been unable to secure accommodation found themselves with a wide variety of houses from which to choose. ,

At a recent meeting of the Trade and Industry Committee of the Royal Colonial Institute it was proposed to call a conference of leading bodies representing manufacturing and commercial interests to discuss the practicableness ofholding an Empire shopping week centreing on Empire Day next year. In this particular week traders would be asked to give all prominence and preference to Empire-made goods. If the1 result of this conference is favourable, the interest of the great trading associations and individuals will next be enlisted. In a report in connection with the growth ef industries in the oversea Dominions, was a warning as to the growing influence of the United States by gaining es.tablishment of branch industries in Canada.

The Onehunga Borough Council recently proceeded against Mr. J. J. Boyd, proprietor of the Onehunga Zoo, formerly of Wellington,, for an alleged breach of the borough bylaws by keeping certain animals wild by nature in Onehunga contrary to the bylaws. When the case was called at the Onehunga Police Court the borough solicitor intimated that, with the consent of the Court, the case had been removed to the Supreme Court. It now transpires (says the Auckland Star) that Mr. Boyd has commenced an action in the Supreme Court to restrain the council from proceeding with the information, on the ground that the resolution repealing the bylaw on Bth January, 1917, has not been rescinded. The issue, say the borough solicitors, ie whether Mr. Boyd, voting, as Mayor of Onehunga, on the resolution in question made it invalid. They think it did, and that the resolution was of ,no effect, because it was only carried by means of an illegal vote. In other words that it owed its passing to an illegality and therefore cannot stand.

The Poat'e London correspondents says: Mr. 'I. J. M'Mahon, F.R.G.S., is vigorously continuing his campaign of making known in this country the possibilities of the South Pacific Islands and their commercial value to the Empire. The Daily Telegraph devotes a leading article to the subject, remarking; "To write of a South Sea Island suggests for most of us nothing but visions of romance, boyish memories of Captain Cook's voyages, and the mutineers of the Bounty, pages from Herman' Melville about picturesque nymphs, and a whole pageant of Stevenson's beachcombers and wild, bewildei-ing seamen set in a frame of exotic beauty. But let Us turn to the prose of the matter. The prosperity, th a very existence, of the densely-popu-lated countries in which we live depends upon materials which can only be obtained from districts near the Equator. The land upon which we can'draw for our supplies is limited and the demand is steadily increasing," and likely to increase still more. For as long a time a3 we can foresee a world demand for copra will grow .. . and the Pacific Islands; thanks to the habit of the coconut palni, have an economic importance altogether out of proportion to their extent.. Mr. M'Mahon warned his hearers that at the present time British energies were being overshadowed by the energies of other nations. It remains for our own commerce to awake to the potentialities of the Pacific, and for the Administration, whether Colonial or Imperial, to show its wisdom and foresight in the direction of native life and energy. If we can rely upon 'the old iind proved capacity of our race, the new island realm of the Empire must become one of the most prosperous and one of the most valuable to humanity of all the regions of the world."

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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 146, 18 December 1919, Page 4

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LOCAL AND GENERAL Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 146, 18 December 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 146, 18 December 1919, Page 4

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