INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14840, 18 February 1919, Page 5

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this. day. The Hon Mr. Myers states that the importation of coal from Australia this month will be fifty thousand tons. .He thinks the; difficulty '-111 regard to . coal trucks on railways m being overcome. : At the annual meeting of the/ N.Z. Society of , Civil Engineers .-Me S. Ai MaA,. the president^ said that the inemV bership was 213, He .referred to town planning, and saidlthe .executive a.'ecommended. that 'delegates should: attend the conference at .Wellington, m May, ... WELLINGTON, this day. Judgment was. delivered to-day by Mr Justice Edwards on an application under the' Habeas Corpus Act for the discharge from custody of Hc<pe WhitfieJd Home. Home was born m New Zealand m 1897 and. wnetto America m October 1917, intending to remain there permanently. He wa3 drawn m the ballot m December 1917 and returned m May, 1918, under a passport authorising him to stay six months. He appealed against being called up on the ground that he was not a British subject and this was dismissed' m August. Home made a declaration of alienage m November 1918. . He was arrested and sentenced by court-riiartiar to two years for refusal to obey a lawful command and is now m custody at Paparoa gaol. Until making the declaration of alienage, Home was a person of dual nationality. His Honor held that when a man became a soldier under the Military Service Act he could not. divest himself of liability by ,a veduntary or fcrmal act or declaration of alienage. The summons therefore vras dismissed. ■.... CHRISTOHURCH, this day. Sales of 'Change : Huddart, Parker £1 18s. Reported: Mason Struthers £1 4s 9d. Before the Industries Committee the Rev. Andrew Cameron, chancellor of the Otago University, urged the claims of the University College- in relation to scientific research^and suggested a larger grant to professors to , enable them to' pay assistants, a. sufficient sum to better carry on scientific research. He did not favor a centralised scientific board m Wellington, but urged that each college be well, equipped, so that local industries might liave the advantage, .of scientific research to investigate .their problems. A. Acenden, representing the British Permanent Paint Co. of New_ Zealand, said that this firm was making the purest oxide yet manufactured, and thought it was entitled, to a larger measure of Government support, which would 1 enable it to launch into the linseed oil industry. M. P.^Murray advocated protective duty on sacks, which oould be made m New Zealand. DUNEDIN, this day. Sales on 'Change : Huddart, Parker (ordinary) 38s. , - . •>.■...-> /i...