MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 7 May 1924, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

ABSTHAI.UN AND N.Z. CAUI.B ASSCU.'IATION A SPVA I’K‘T. SPVA, May <>. In order to create a sanctuary foi the Levuana moth, the (lovernineiit has decided to cut down all the coconut. palms within the municipality ol I.evnka. The Agricultural Department is actively endeavouring to isolate the moths while searching for the parasite.

A GROOM'S hI'CK

, LONDON. May .1. George Squires, aged seventy-live, formerly a itroimi, hut now living in a New park Almhs House, lias inherited eighty thousand from his uncle’s widow. Squires has four daughters and six sons. AMRITSAR .MASSAC HE. I.ONOON, May •>. In Oerard O'Dwyer’s libel action counsel for the defence raised the issue as to the propriety of Oeneral O'Dwyer’s notion. Justice McC'nrdie asked : "It what the Oeneral did was necessary for the prevention of anarchy. Can it he said he was wrong?” He added: "It live hundred were killed, half n "nil,on were saved. The police had completely lost control. You seem to he ignoring the general consequence that might have followed if Oeneral Dyer - force had been destroyed.’ Later Justice M.-Cardie interposed that he could not see any distinction in principle between a po id limn bludgeon and a soldier's idle, or an aviator’s bomb in suppressing a rehellion. The hearing was adjourned.