TELEGRAMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22368, 15 September 1934, Page 19

TELEGRAMS

(Pee United Press Association) WELLINGTON, September 14. Fines totalling £l5O were imposed on 10 Chinese who answered charges to-day following a raid on an opium den. The keeper was fined £SO, in default three months’ imprisonment. The police said they had difficulty in effecting an entrance, a. timber jack being used to force an entry through several heavily-barri-caded doors. .1 The case in which the Palmerston North City Council is asking, the Supreme Court for an injunction against the ManawatuOroua Power Board was continued to-: day. Mr Richmond, for the board, contended that it was the duty of the board under economic necessity to apply its power of special rating to such part ot the district as could bear it. It would have been an absolute failure of duty on the part of the board to allow its consumers to disappear because they were not willing to resort to a separate rate. He contended that by obstinacy and sel- . fishness Palmerston North was endeavouring to ruin the board. The truth was not that there was any dishonesty or a desire to break the contract. The truth was that, the farmers wished for the best for all and Palmerston North refused. Argument was concluded and decision was reserved.