LOCAL AND GENERAL

Evening Star, Issue 20556, 7 August 1930, Page 18

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The State Miners’ Union, which held stop-work meetings as a protest against tho railways departing from the arrangement for a suitable train for wettime workers, met a departmental official, who promised that the train would in future bo more punctual. The miners were therefore to resume work to-day. H.M.S. Dunedin left Auckland today on a three months’ cruise to southern ports. The warship’s first port of call will bo Wellington, and later she will visit Lyttelton, Timaru, Oamaru, and Dunedin. At the beginning of October the cruiser will return to Wellington to enable tho crew to carry out their annual musketry course. The return tpip from Wellington to Auckland will be made via Nelson, New Plymouth, and Napier. The cruiser is due back at Auckland-at the beginning of November. ■ In the Police Court, Gisborne, Frederick Valentine, veterinary practitioner, was fined £5 on a charge of giving a prescription for a dangerous drugtincture of opium—for purposes other than animal treatment, and was convicted and discharged on a further similar charge. Mr Harper, S.M., dismissed a charge of failing to keep a proper register of all transactions in relation to the disposal of the drug, pointing out that there was a doubt as to whether the accused dispensed the drug from hia own premises. Tho evidence showed that the accused had used 720 z of tincture of opium in the form of fomentations for treatment of trouble with his knee. Tho monthly meeting of the Dunedin Central branch of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union was held on Tuesday afternoon in tho Hanover Street Baptist Church Hall. Mrs Didhstih conducted devotional, services, and Mrs Hictt presided. Invitations were received from the South Dunedin branch to a bring and buy social, from Northeast Valley branch to its twenty-first birthday party, and’ from th© young people’s branch to a speech competition. A letter was received from the Hamilton Union explaining its action in asking that very young girls be not allowed in dance hall or cabarets unless accompanied by a responsible chaperon. A resolution was passed -retesting against the Gaming Amendment Bill and art unions. It was resolved to suggest to the Dominion Executive that it would bp well, in the interests of Prohibition, to invito some, notable women to conduct a lecturing tour of tho dominion. A social half-hour was spent, Mrs Hotting contributing a song, Mrs Garden a recitation, and Mrs Hiett read a poem.