NEWS IN BRIEF.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VI, Issue 1787, 5 November 1919, Page 10

NEWS IN BRIEF.

A first offender for drunkenness was fined 5/- and costs, 7/6," by Messrs T. E. Fraser and F. H. Christian, J.P.'s, in the Magistrate's Court this morning. "State purchase and control; what it menus to New Zealand," will be the title [of: an address to be delivered at the Theatre Royal, Ashburton, on November 6, by Mr B. U. Just, Canterbury -organiser of the New Zealand Moderate League. ' A collection of trade catalogues for the use of commercial men is being built up by the Public Library authorities in Sydney. According to a letter received from the librarian by the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, no catalogues have been received from New Zealand. Manufacturers are invited to send their trade catalogues and circulars to the library. At a sitting of the Magistrate's Court at Bangiora yesterday, over which Mr V. G. Day, S.M., presided, judgment by default was given in Golding and Thomson v. W. T. Pitama £23 12/-, with costs £1 3/-. In a judgment summons case, Lawrence and Housen, Wellington (Mr van Ascli) v. F. Cottingham, claim £42 12/7, an order was made for immediate payment, the order to be suspended provide 1 £1 10/- was paid fortnightly, in default one month's imprisonment. The Executive Committee of the Canterbury Industrial Association decided, at a meeting held last evening, to protest against the proposal made in the City Council to increase the price of electric current. It was urged that the balance-sheet of th.e Electricity Department for. 1918 does not justify the proposed increase. It was decided that the City Council should be written to and asked to hold a conference with the association before any further action was taken.

A Press Association telegram from Palnierston North states that judgment i was reserved by the Magistrate in a case in which A. W. Gallichan, wine and i spirit traveller, sued Herbert Grinstead,' Prohibition organiser, for £SO damages for libel. The defendant said in a letter to the plaintiff's lawyers that he did j not think that Gallichan was a good! man to be on a school committee, as he had often seen him under the influence \ of liquor. Counsel said that the action \ was taken to vindicate the plaintiff's character, and not to secure punitive j damages. The executive of the Christchurch j Returned Soldiers' Association met last j evening. Mr N. B. McCallum (president) occupied tlie chair. Mr E. Orchard, vice-president of the association, forwarded his resignation as a member of the executive. The resigna-1 tion was accepted with regret, and the ! Eev. W. Walker was appointed as. a vice-president, and Mr C. Stringer was | nominated for the vacancy on the executive. It was decided to telegraph to local members of Parliament, urging them to secure the necessary permission this session to enable the transfer of £3OOO from the Lady Liverpool Fund to the Returned Soldiers' Building Fund being made. The secretary stated thatJ he had received a letter intimating that I the Women's National Reserve had j disbanded on October 31 last. It was : decided that the association should invite members of the Women's National Reserve and of the Citizens' Defence Corps to a garden party as a token of the association's appreciation of the work of these organisations in the past. *

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