Tenants' Voting Rights

Chronicle (Levin), 4 November 1947, Page 4

Tenants' Voting Rights

; Whether State tenants could ' vote on loan proposals has been I asked in Auckland. A legal opinion ; recently received by the returning ! officer in Auckland, Mr. W. G. BosI w.ell, was that State tenants should j be excluded from the rolls of rate1 payers for loan proposals. This [ coincided with an opinion recently j expressed by the Internal Affairs : Department in Wellington. j Good Fishing at Taupo > Excellent conditions pr€vailed at j Taupo over the weekend for fishi ing, numbers of anglers being on the lake and rivers. Very good ! results are reported. Mr. J. Taylor 's party, with officials of the Hawke's Bay Rugby Union, fishing in the western bays, gotj some I excellent fish, the largest being one j of 71b. Waitahanui reports that [ catches were light, but the fish were in excellent condition. Mr. [ Karl Monrad took the limit. I Big Food Parcel Scheme j A comprehen.sive:-:filan for' sehd- | ing food parcels to Britain on an ! organised basis and involving an j annual expenditure of £14,000, is I expected to be considered by the' I New Zealand Waterside Workers' I Union at an early date. Officials | believe they have a model for the I project in the programme which I has been followed for some time I past by the Lyttelton Waterside | Workers' Union. Under the LyttelS ton plan watersiders there have I been- each contributing 10s a quarI ter to a common fund for the | purchase of food parcels for BriI tain and so far about £1000 has i been collected. I Farm Wages | Figures relating to farm wages, | pubhshed in a message from New i : Plymouth on Saturday, apply only | I to dairy farm workers, it is now I stated. It is further stated that | the new rates, reached in negotia8 tion between Federated Farmers of I New. Zealand and representatives j of the workdrs£ -areiSubject to the ? approval ' of th'e* -Mmister of AgriI culture, and mu's.t . be gazetted S before coming into force. Negotiaj tions regarding the wages of farm ! and station workers were in proI gress last week and were completI ed on Friday. They also are subj.ect ! to the Minister's approval and pubI lication in the Gazette. | Horses Still Wanted I Though during the past 10 years | tractors have largely ousted | draught horses from farms, there I has recently been an increased j demand for draughts in South- | land. At a recent clearing sale a ! team of fiv-e good working | draughts made £15 to £30 each. A I few years ago they would probI ably have had. to be sacrificed at £2 | a head. "The explanation is that j nobody is breeding horses, while [ there is still some deman'd for I them. Horses are regarded as I being more economical than trac- ! tors for very small farms, and ! many farms require at least one [ horse,for the dray. The demand is s admittedly small, but there are not [ enough horses to meet it. | Warning to Travellers ' New Zealanders wishing to make [ a return journey to Australia s should first make sure of their return bookings, says the New Zeaj land Trade Commissioner in Sydj ney in a warning issued yesterday. The Trade Commissioner's office is ! receiving numerous requests for assistancb in securing return pasj sages to New Zealand by air or sea on the ground that travel is neces- | sary for business reasons or on | compassionate grounds. Tasman Airways cahnot guarantee passages | before mid-January while the Wahine is fully ' booked for all sailings to March 5, 1948. There j are 42 New Zealand students of the j Sydney University on the waiting ; list. Unless persons leaving New Zealand have bookings confirmed before leaving, their return cannot i be guaranteed within three months.