It is stated that, in the opinion of the Commissioners, the evidence does not support the charges of disloyalty. None of the numerous witnesses whom they examined was in favour of internment of Dalmatians.
It is understood that, as a result of the Commission's report, the Government proposal to segregate all single, unnaturalised Dalmatians at Parenga, near North Cape, will not be carried into effect.
The Hon. J. Allen, whilst unable to make any statement at present, said on Monday that Auckland people could allow their minds to be at perfect rest on the question.
•A smart capture was made by a couple of police officers in Wellington on Friday. Sergeant Lewin and Constable Fleming were visiting an hotel in the ordinary course of their duties when they saw a number of men standing round the bar.
One man, just as they entered the door, was in the act of passing something round behind the back of the man next him to a ''pal'' on the other side in such a way that the men standing at the counter could not see when he was doing.
The officers at once went forward and spoke to the man in the centre, asking him if he had his watch on him. ''I've got it all right,'' he replied, but on feeling in his vest pocket he found it had gone.
The man next him put his hand in his own pocket, and on the police asking him to show them what he had put in his pocket he produced a Waterbury watch with about 10s, which the centre man at once claimed as his.
''During my next visit to Auckland in the course of about three weeks' time,'' said the Hon. G. W. Russell, Minister of Public Health, on Friday, ''I propose, with the assistance of Dr Truby King and Mrs King, to endeavour to create a greater interest in the work of the Plunket Society, thus to preserve the health of women and children. It is a matter of regret that this humanitarian work has not been taken up in Auckland to the same extent as it has been in other centres of the dominion.''
Mr Russell added (reports the New Zealand Herald) that he proposed, with the assistance of Dr King, to lay before the women of Auckland a statement of the work being done in other parts, and the satisfactory results that had accrued.
He hoped to create a stronger sympathy for the work of the Plunket Society, both in Auckland and at Hamilton.
•Auckland evidently offers good opportunities for the counterfeiter to put the products of his labours into circulation, and once again coins manufactured elsewhere than at a recognised Government mint are in circulation there.
One of our suburban stations accumulated quite a number, but unfortunately during a recent rush the ''curios'' got mixed with other silver and were passed out through the ticket window as change.
•The Hawke's Bay Herald says that special efforts are being made by the Kahungunu tribe, from Wairoa, to raise a complete company for the front.
The Carrolls and Ormonds have enlisted, and these will draw in many others. The Kahungunu have never been beaten in battle, and the leading men hope, by the end of shearing, to raise 100 men.
- ODT, 8.9.1916.
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