NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 173, 1 November 1910, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

SELF-DENIAL FUND. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Monday. Dunedin's self-denial fund totalled £949 10s, a record for the city and the highest for the South Island for the week. COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE. Gisborne, Monday. At the Police Court, William Thira pleaded guilty and was committed for sentence on a charge of having appropriated the proceeds of a £4O cheque entrusted to him to cash. John Smith and James Armitt, with several aliases, pleaded guilty to having stolen the contents of a Syrian hawker's swag, and were committed for sentence. TOBACCONISTS' TROUBLES. Wellington, Monday. A deputation of tobacconists waited' on the Minister of Labor and asked for the system of licenses for the trade to be established, and that the individual license fee be £5, which would bring in £7500 per annum to the consolidated fund. It was explained that the deputation represented 75 per cent, of New Zealand controlling 1500 people. The Minister pointed out that the matter was not within his jurisdiction, and that they should see the Minister of Customs. Mr. Millar saw only one way to deal with illicit trading: that was to fix a compulsory closing hour, with no exemptions. The public would so«n become educated to the change.