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AUCTIONS. H. MATSON AND CO. MATSON AND Ext. Sydney "Stock and Station Journal,' WOOL EXPORT. VALUE EXCEEDS £5,000,000. i SUCCESS OF, FOREIGN SHIPS. | The export of the new season's wool i: I .-..ii sw j llgp B nd competition aniouj npanies. is exceptionally keen Eight liners are listed to leave Sydney to inv for European ports and the United Kiiiedom, currying nearly 63,000 bales, valuec at approximately i' 1,512,000. Including to-day's shipments, the woo shipped from New South Wales this seasor to Europe and England amounts to aboui 219,645 bales, worth more than £5,271,000. Foreign lines, up to the present, have obtained by far the greater amounts. Taking ;„(.> n,„.„ un t the shipments leaving to-day, mod vessels have loaded about 132,653 bales, while British vessels have secured about 87,092 bales. The largest individual cargoes have been obtained by the German and Norwegian lines The Norddeutscher Lloyd steamer Alter carried 17,176 bales, and reached Dunkirk in 34 days 7 hours actual steaming itme. It may be mentioned, however, that a British , steamer, the Meriones, of the Blue Funnel ! line, was the first vessel to arrive at Dunkirk with the new season's wool, having •made the trip in the record time of 33 days 10 hours. The motor ship Teneriffa, of the Norwegian-Australia line, is leaving today with 17,000 bales, and will proceed direct to Dunkirk. Other vessels leaving to-day will call at intermediate ports, and the approximate amounts each vessel will carry are as follows:—Autolycus (Blue Funnel line), 8000 bales; Hagen (German-Australia line), 12,000 bales; Arcndskerk (HollandAustralia line), 12,500 bales; Olan MacFadyen (Clan Line), 6000 bales; Tasmania (Federal S.N. Co.), 4000 bales; Port Adelaide (Commonwealth and Dominion Line), 2000 bales; and the Ferndale (Australian Commonwealth line), 1200 bales. Apart from the Aller and Teneriffa, the biggest shipments to date as as follows: Altona (German-Australia line), 15,834 bales; Tricolor (Norwegian-Australia line), 12,589 bales; Ville d'Amiens (Messageries Maritimes), 11,130 bales; and the City of Bristol (Ellorman, Bucknall line), 11,040 bales. ORDERS FOR WOOLPACKS, OORNSACKS, AND STATION REQUISITES PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO H. MATSON and CO. Extract from "Mercantile Gazette," Nov. 1927. THE-AMENDED INDUSTRIAL CONCILIATION ARBITRATION ACT. The Government has decided that the Industrial Arbitration and Conciliation Act shall continue as an integral part of our legislation, but it is to bo altered, pushed in here and squeezed out there, in order to meet some of the objections hurled against it. If tho Court decide, as a condition precedent to making an award, that our employers would bo economically incapable of paying the wages demanded and were empowered to refuse an application which, if granted, would increase the burden upon a struggling industry, one great objoction to its continued existence would be removed. Wo have not yet received a copy of the amendments the Government propose shall bo made to the Act, but whatever they may be, while the present system of payment by time, instead of by results continues, and the principle of preference to unionists remains, no improvement will result from the patching intended by the Government, nor will our unemployed disappear from the face of the land. In the past the awards of the Court with regard to unskilled labour have simply created a class for whom no work can be found, except by the community borrowing large sums of money and spending it for the benefit of the workless upon all sortß of unnecessary and relief undertakings. If Mr Goates,- however, thinks our system of dealing with labour is better than any other, he has the right and the power to perpetuate it, and should the majority of the people interested decide that they cannot agree with him there is a perfectly constitutional method by which they may express their opinions Inter

MANURES, BONEDUST, AND LIME, ALL BRANDS PROCURABLE FROM H. MATSON and CO. on. There are, naturally, two sides to every political question. We have no doubt that the Arbitration Act is slowly but surely destroying the prosperity of New Zealand, and if it were abolished the trade unions are well able to take care of their members. Mr Bloodworth, of Auckland, who is one of tho ablest representatives the Labour movement has produced, is of opinion that Labour would be in a much better and stronger' position if the Arbitration Court ceased to function, and we agree with his opinion, as the Court alone now exercises jurisdiction over wages, which is one of the most important matters which should engage the attention of the Unions. Most people will perhaps reply that the workers have gained more, pecuniarily, through tho Court than the Unions could have obtained for thorn, as it has been the practice of the Court to grant an automatic increase whenever index numbers havo advanced since the last award. It is possible that all which has been given by the Court could have been obtained, or even more, had the leaders of the Union's met tho employers in conference direct, froed from tho presence of any official conciliators, as tho employers wouM havo been amenable to every reasonable demand in order to avoid tho possibility of a strike. Those who personally gain by the Act, of course, do not want any alteration; those who pay out their capital to meet the awards are equally desirous to get rid of it. If it,is true that tho awards of the Court paralyse industry. and create unemployment, the position becomes, as tho Hon. Minister for Public Works put it the other day, that tho State must come to the rescuo by providing relief works, tho money for FOR BEST PRICES'SEND YOUR SHEEPSKINS, TALLOW. HIDES, OR CRUTCHINGS TO "MATSON'S." which- must be found by borrowing. Tho Minister deprecated this possibility and intimated that workers should not bo employed upon Government public (Undertakings except during a crisis and as a temporary measure only, but should be absorbed by the ordinary industries of the country, carried on at the expense of privuto capital. Wo think' tho Minister's remarks were statesmanlike and indicate that he grasped the economic position with great accuracy, but as an independent and arbitrary tribunal now fixes rates which private persons cannot pay, wo aro in a vicious spiral, wages and commodities, high rates and unemployment all pursuing one another. We do not think that the Act, even if amended in the direction sug- i gested by the Government, will give any more i satisfaction than it has in the past. If a ship has a hole in her hull, no one could make her seaworthy by scraping her topmasts, an>l a business financial scheme if started on unsound principles will como to grief notwithstanding all the efforts of those who are called upon to engage in its administration. The Act sins against principles, as it constitutes an attempt to counter the effect of economic laws, and when amended it will avail nothing DIRECT SUPERVISION, EXPERT KNOWLEDGE, AND THE INTENSE DESIRE TO GET THE BEST RESULTS AND TO KNOW THAT OUR BUSINESS DEPENDS ON THE SERVICES WE RENDER YOU. ENTRUST YOUR SELLING FAVOURS TO H. MATSON and CO. if the fundamental base upon which it rests remains unsound. We understand from the forecast of the proposed amendments that the Arbitration Court's awards are not in future to affect the farming community. If that is so a great step forward will be made, and we suppose, in order to effect this object, tho Government will, by Statute, cancel the threshing mills employees' award and that of the shearers. That must be the logical result. It has always been an anachronism that the farmer has been compelled to pay the men who thresh his oats the same price, whether the market price of his crop is Is 6d or 3s 6d per bushel. If an award is fixed in relation to the price then current, which next season drops to one-half, some relie. should be given. However, it is pleaant to read what the Government intends doing to prevent tho men in the primarv industries from being pauperised by legislation. ■ The only question is, how are the claims of labour to be reconciled if the Government enacts that an award which shall directly or indirectly prejudicially affect the farming industry, shall be ipso facto, null and voidi H. MATSON and CO., ChrißtchurclL.