DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8, 9 January 1914, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

DOMINION TOURIST TRAFFIC. [Per Press Association.] Wellington January 8. The value of tickets issued to toursts during the period December 15,

191 M, to January 3, 1914, compared with the previous similar period, are .is follows:—Auckland, 1933, £ll7O (19.14. £661); Rotorua, £lls (£SS) ; Wellington, £922 ',-(-699); Christchurch L*y()B9 (£3081): Dunedin, £1687 (£2340)-; hivercargill, £368 (£578); Wanganui, £ll (.nil). Totals, £6962 £7117). The Hon. R. H. Rhodes, Minister in Charge of the Tourist Department, considers thai tin's increase of £455 is very satisfactory, in view of the effects of the recent smallpox epidemic anil the industrial trouhle. Until lately the. Australian traffic has been seriously impeded by the smallpox restrictions, but these have now been removed. ARREST OF A CHINAMAN. Wellington, January 8-. Detective-Sergeant Cassells and Constable b'raser, of Tinakori Road. to-day arrested a Chinaman named Shoo Shiny on a charge of having committed a serious offence upon a young nil! at Wairoa. Hawke's Bay. in November, 1912. The accused was at one time a shoj)keepei - in Wairoa, and he has been '"wanted" by the police for over a year.