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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 591, 20 August 1909, Page 4

"I had a walk round the wharves thie said Mr. J. i'urv.ia, of• Lyttoitonj at the Waterside Workers' Conference yesterday;, "and I estimated that' tlioro' .were three, times as many men there as wore ■■■ required to do the work'. Those" I spoke ■■; to agreed with me that, there was a need, for limitation." Mr. A; L. Jones (Welling- . ton) said that there' wero twico as many. ' nien: on the local wharves is wero required. ■ . . "They talk of tho curse of drink, 'but' the > curse of casual work , is , farwovee." :., ,:. \

■:.■• ThOi dispute aioiit preference to unionists in connection with wharf labour mWellingV ; ton is apparently not oyeryet. Mr; D. : M'Lareu, Ml'., secretary of ;the Wellington • Wharf Jjabourerß , Huioiu statedj ae reported ;. in these columns, that Mr; l< , . M'Cann, in declartog against'preference, , was not ox- ..' Crossing tho views of that organisation. Mr. , I'Oann now asks us to say that ho is'prepared to have a ballot of the members takent. on thV question, ''Has, preference done anything; for the good of the'wharf ;workers ffi WellingtonP". : .;; /,;■ : : •,.; v ,;. ' One of the sights; in . tiifl South, Pacific, according W' Mr.; J. H. L, Ledger, ~ Accountant and Controller',of the Post. Oibco !'... Savings Hank, who has just- returned from . a trip to Fiji aiid Samoa,: is the burning" mountain of Suvaii. This moun> tain, which has an island all , to .itself, ia •; only'a fow hows', steam l from Apia. It is i literally a pillar of;firo : by night, arid a cloud ;[■ \ot steam) by day. It. is -,particularly ,impressivo by ttlglit/'-fpr, , ' ,wihen jmssmg withia;,,V.' tlireo inilc? .of iW. island, ono tnay seo tie .. rcji-bot streaiu of lava rushing seaward ffort, ■■'■• i v ■i' volcano, and dropping over, a 2GOft. ; ..-, cllif into the ocean, which is rendered quite;, not for half a mile s from this, point. , Bj-:, ■ day jzreat cloude of steam arise continuously. •?>,