WITHIN THE DOMINION

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6492, 11 April 1908, Page 10

WITHIN THE DOMINION

LATEST TELEGRAMS PEESB ASSOCIATION. HOUSEHOLD PROBLEMS. CASH OR COUPONS? HASTINGS, April 10. lU Ivors’ coupons or tho cash system Meets with strong public disapproval, owing to the takers demanding fourpence rash from customers who decline lo use coup ins which are sold at 3.; 6d a dozen. Last night a largely attended public meeting unanimously resolved in favour of cash as against credit wherever practicable, and expressed tho opinion that the purchasing newer of cash should equal that of coupons; also that the bakers should accept each other’s coupons. The meeting also discussed tho price of eoal, and retplvod to urge the Government to establish a State depot at Hastings, the price being lls 6d per quarter ton, a-s against 7s 6d in Wellington. WABIARAMA. LANDS. NAPIER, April 10. At a meeting of tho Hawke’s Bay Land Board to-day, a. letter was received from the solicitors for Miss Meinertzhagen, asking for rehearing of her application for lease or license to occupy certain Waimarama lands. Mr Eustace Lane, a member of the Board, referred to an application from F. Donnelly' for the same Waimarama land. The Commissioner said F. Donnelly had boon advised that no action could bo taken with regard to these lands until they wore subdivided for selection and tho areas determined. Survey was now' being pushed on, and nothing could be done by the Board in the meantime.

The Board resolved to hold a special meeting on Thursday, the 30th iust., for the purpose of rehearing 'Miss Meinertzhagen’s application and dealing with F. Donnelly’s. Mr Lane remarked that he did not see what was to be gained by meeting, when tlie Commissioner had been instructed that no action could be taken. JEWISH METHODS OF SLAUGHTERING. AUCKLAND, April 10. Rabbi Goldstein, of Auckland, protests against the idea expressed by the Christchurch Society for tho Prevention of Cruelty to Animals that the Jewish method of killing cattle is ■ necessarily cruel. He contends that it causes loss pain than any other, SIXTY-NINE APPLICANTS. DUNEDIN,' April 10 For tho position of librarian at the Free Public Library sixty-nine appli cations have been received from -■ 11 parts of the Dominion, and from Australia. Tho applications were referred to-day to committee of the City Council, with which Messrs G. Fenwick, M. Cohen, A. R. Barclay, M.P., and J. W. Whitson were associated. HOCKEY IN HAWKE’S BAY. NAPIER, April 10. At the annual meeting of - tho Hawke’s Bay Hockey Association it was stated that at present there were thirty-two clubs in tho province, and more in prospect. Being a young association, tho funds have not been sufficiently large to send a representative team to fight for the New Zealand shield. It was hoped to be able to send, one this season. PUNISHING STRIKERS. WESTPORT, April 10. The places of cho carpenters who struck at the Westport-Stockton Coal Company’s works have been filled by other men. SHOOTING REGULATIONS. OKRISTOHUROH, April 10. The Canterbury Acclimatisation Association has passed the following, resolution ;—That no device should be used from which to shoots native game on Lake Ellesmere other 'than a legalised cylinder or scrub rush hut, mudhole, or maimai, and that such device should not be sot or used in water of greater depth than 24in, providing that there is nothing in the regulations to present shooting out of -an undressed boat hidden in the reeds growing along the shore of tho lake, or the use of a boat for retrieving; that no tire birds be used as decoys; that no persons put a greater number of decoys on an area one hundred yards square then twenty-five, or kill mere than two hundred head of native game in one year.” It was explained in discussion that the proposals had been framed to stop the indiscriminate slaughter of game that had been going on for the past few years. CASH TRADING. BLENHEIM, April 10. The eight coal and wood dealers of Blenheim have agreed to adojrt at once tho cash trading system in respect to all wood orders and to coal orders under one ton.