NEW ZEALAND ITEMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3181, 29 March 1911, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND ITEMS.

HON. G. FOWLDS. LI’ER PRESS ASSOCIATION..) CHRISTCHURCH, March 28. The Hon. G. Fowkls, received a deputation this morning, urging the Government to survey the route of a tramway up Lyttelton Hills from the Christchurch Sumner line, and along the hilltop, giving access to the hilltop building sites, and providing a fine outlook over the plains. The Minister advised the deputation to see the Hon. D Buddo, Acting-Minister of Lands. BREACHES OF PROHIBITION. At the Magistrate’s Court this morning. Mr. H. W. Bishop, S.M.. delivered himself strongly on the subject of breaches of prohibition orders. One offender was declared an habitual drunkard and sent to Pakatca Home for two years. Another was fined £3 with the alternative of a month’s imprisonment, Mr. Bishop declaring that he was an “utter waster.” and was rapidly qualifying for a. more drastic sentence. A man who supplied liquor to a prohibited person was fined £3, or a month, while the warning that next time he would get the lull benefit of the Act. A case in which a publican was fined'for serving boys .of 17 with liquor, gave the Magistrate the text for the remark that if boys had nothing better to do alter parade than to go to hotels, it- did not say much for the volunteering ’business. A hawker who sold stinking fish got a month’s hard labor.