DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 28, 16 January 1912, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS.

(Per Press Association.) ■Wellington, January 16. Judgment was delivered to-day by Mr Riddell, S.M., in the case in which a woman residing in the Wellington South No-license district was charged with having stored liquor on her premises. The fact was admitted but she pleaded that'the liquor was onlystored to oblige a person who intended to entertain the tramway band at his own residence the next evening and wanted to take it home after dark. The Magistrate held that the case did not come within the wording of the Act and dismissed it. Auckland, January 15.

Burglars have been busy in Auckland of late'and several successful and unsuccessful attempts to deprive citizens of property have been made. In instance a tailor’s shop was broken into and suits valued at between ,£3O and £4O taken.

Wellington, January to. “There is no need for any able-bod-ied man to be out of work,” says the Labour Department. The Department had not the slightest difficulty in placing all the applicants who arrived recently by the Ruapehu and the Somerset. The whole of the callers who sought work had their needs in this direction satisfied. Tile Department at the present time could place something like 150 farm hands and ploughmen, many of which vacancies nave been on the books since December last. The Department is nob getting the assistance it looked for io filling these vacanc’os. In connection with the immigrants from Home, it was; pointed put that a, large number of them invariably express a desire to go. to Auckland, even though work was offered them in Wellington City and district. An officer of the Department when asked to explain this curious state of affairs, expressed the opinion that an impression had gdt'abroad” in 'the'Old Country fluff Auckland is the leading city of the Dominion from the point of view of labour activity. Examples were quoted of men, the new arrivals from overseas, who preferred- to travel to Auckland;'first passing, work in this city, on flier chance That they would find employment in the north. What they said was in effect, “If wo can’t get work up there, well, we can always return. n The Postmaster-General lias been negotiating with the Union Company for some time past with the object of securing more equal intervals between the despatches of the San Francisco and Vancouver mails from New Zealand. He now announces that, beginning with the despatch of the Manuka from Wellington on the 29th March next, the time-tables of the two services will lie so arranged as to give an interval of a fortnight between the alternate despatches from Wellington and Auckland. Tirnaru, January 15.

Four seamen absconded from the' steamor Clan MacLaren (now on the way to Auckland) and were arrested in the country. They have been remanded to Wellington. The Mt. Cook motor service, which last year ran to Pembroke from Wanaka, is to be extendd to Queenstown, and the first car goes through on the 22nd. The route is said to be varied and picturesque and well worth doing. The service will be a weekly one. Jit. Cook attracted many visitors this season, four or five cars being sometimes required from Fairlie.