HOKITIKA NOTES.

Grey River Argus, 6 November 1928, Page 2

HOKITIKA NOTES.

( Pi oih Our Own <Wr n i| M ,n.| l . n f.) I; HOKITIKA, Nov. 5. After a wet mo.ning, the weather ■ cleared this afternoon. Last week there I was about two inches of rain and 3-H • hours of sunshine recorded here. Il The wet weather on Saturday pre |; vented tie Hokitika Tennis Club from 1 ■ Opening the season, but the Bowling ! CAib members, twenty-five in number. : as embled on Saturday at the pavilion ; for the fo mal opening of the season. ; They were the guests of Mrs W. Wil-I; ;oii (wife of the President) at after | ■ noon tea, and Mr Wilson, in dec’aring : this season open, ecarted that it ; would be ?. successful one. He read a’ telegram from the Greymouth Club con | veying good wishes. A brief adjourn-j ment to the green was made and Mrs Wil on rolled up the opening bowl, after which the Pres’dent presented the Dunean Cup to last year’s singles •h: rnpion, Mr D. Stevenson, eo:ignitu-| lating aim on his succors in this competition on SO many occasions The! winner suitab y responded and Bev. Knowles Smith exp essed the app’ecia-l tion of the gathering for the repast, provided by Mrs Wilson. The Presl-1 dent gave an account of his experiences at bowling tournaments in thej Old Country during his recent visit, ami the proceedings then eoncluded. Mr James O’Brien, Labour candidate fo' Westland, will address the electors at Princess Theatre, Hokitika, (in Thu sday evening next at 8 o’clock. His Worship the Mayor will preside. Mr T. E. Y. Seddon : poke on Saturday at Riniu. Woodstock, and Kanieri, where h’s meetings were lively ones. Tie death took place at Westland •10-p'til ou Saturday evening of Mrs Ann Ni son, a well known colonist of I." years A native of Dublin, she . rune to New Zealand in the early days and was ma red when at Dunstan. Otago. She then came to Hokitika with her husband, and they were well mown in the days of the gold rushes i: the proprietors of the Half-way House at. Hau Hau. Later they settled ■n th? Oku 11 district. Mrs Nisson came to Hokitika after her husband’s death a good number of. years ago. and lattcilv s ic had been living with her son at Matabiui. She leaves one son (Mr George Nis-on of Matainui), and two daughters (Mrs 11 Cutt.ance of Southiand' end Mrs O Tlailnhan, of Templeton, Canterbury). The fune al took nlace this afternoon at the Hokitika Cemeterv. the Rev. Father O’Doherty pe.forming the la t !.it n s. Mr Toni Moore ha ■ kindly placed the Princess Theatre at the Fire Brigade’s Usnnsn 1 f or a benefit entertainment on December 12 and 13 Messis Patei' on. Michel end Co. Ltd «(.o'vod wor' 1 t'-om Messrs Quh'k - ' Smith th-’ we’l known Dunedin fi'-m, stat’ng Cat the Okarito Five v ;-,. ; >’nv. h-.l n nms 1 ■■ f|.' 'e‘ •< inn. '' ho cap’tal o’ ""0 000 CtfOOOO r,Om • '■'l wa vermuch iibs -i'o- .1 A I'vr op<w-t-ons w’ll oon'moneo inimediatelv. O’li I - <> ‘velopine'its in ‘ expe t - ? 1 ..-hich .'inrbl e’vo VW Cfe to th •’d Olw ‘

AFIT PROMAYOR OV PHILADELPHIA'S DIFFICULTY. Mn-'-nr Macknv acrovling to the Phila lelphia “Bulletin” of April 13 1928 challenged Presid nt Coolidge Congress, and all F'deral authorities* of the Dis riot of Columbia To “dry up” Washington and make it an exhi pie of prohibit! 'll enforcement to the rei-t of’ the nation. Mayor Mackav said: Why does nor ho Pr-’sident and the Congress give he re t of the nation a real example

: ’i the cn'‘o-ppionnf of ‘he dry laws if prohibition is enfo’ ,rt oahle? My •t:u d has Leon taken, an I ov-rybody knows wb.it it 1 ” Mr Mackay said: “T have given Director Davis his in trucl: ns. F”oui now on the entir ’a! + er o r I’oa activity lies in the Doon'tnH'nt’s hands. M Dealing; wi h speakoasi s and the neople who i atronise them. Mayor Mackay said this:— “I have alway be n a prohibition ‘•st. ond T want the policy of prehi bition to triumph, and I am anxicu to enforce the law to the utmost. To make Philadelphia dry—something that canno' in fact bo done”—he sa.d “I am caught between ti’.e upper and lower layers in connection with prohibi tion. T mean the people who say m public that the speakeasies of this city should be and who arc the people in private who patronise these speakeasies. “When I became Mayor of this city I was left wi h 13,000 pcakeasies on iny door step by the previous ad ministration. I say, and I say em phatically. that to make this city dry it would be necessary to double ' the police force double the number of judges, increase the District At or ney’s Office, and build and maintain additional prisons. Doubling the police force would cost over 7 mil lion dollars more a year to collect from taxpayers, and altogether complete eii forcenient measurements would call foi a round 'on million dollars extra in city costs. It is time,” concluded Mayor Mackay, “that the public i self faced the facts. Are citizens, willing to pay higher taxation in an effort to enforce prohibition?” Such is the s at P of affairs in the city of Philadelphia, where even the Mayor, himself a prohibitionist,' i c unable to cope with the evils, corruption and social degradation which prohibition has produced. —9 1