Both Had to Join Union.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 185, 23 August 1937, Page 4

Both Had to Join Union.

Au illustration of the eJfectB of conipulsory unionism on the fruitgrowing industry was made by Mr M. Goldsbury at a combined meeting of the Fruitgrowers' Associations of Canterbury and Waimari. "I was working at the farru of a friend, Mr Smith, and an inspector called and asked which was the employee," he said. "When I said I was? he told he I would have to join the union. I told him that if he called to-morrow 3mith would be working for nie; and he said that Smith would also have to join the union. So the pair of us have to join the union and pay men in Wellington to ligbt our battles." Dutch Food. Dutch food is very difiei'ent i'rom that usual to the New Zealander, according to remarks made by a spcakcr at a meeting of the Palmerston North ltotary Ciub — Mr P. Heuts, who came to New Zealand from Holland to join a commereial firm last year. "1 have not got used to it yet," reuiarked IMr Heuts, and then in an aside he said, "It is terrible stuff." When tbe laughter had subsided he explained that in Holland a favourite dish was a "good old beef-steak," softened by pounding with a hammer, then minced and cooked in balls. In the top of the ball was scooped a kole and in that hole placed an egg, with onions, pepper and salt. "1 have never eaten anything better," the speaker said. The Wrong Name? The tuatara which died in Christchurch recently was for many years commouly known by the name of Percy. Certainly jt would not have occurred to anyone to give a woman's name to a tuatara, even jokingly. And no one stops to think Avhether a tuatara was male or female; to the average unscientific mind the animal is just plain tuatara. However, that may be, a "postmortem" conducted at the Canterbury Museum by the Curator, Mr R. A. Faiia, has established that "Percy" should have been called Eliza, Jane, or Letitia — anything, in fact, but Percy, because "he'J was a female tuatara. That will no doubt be noted on the card which will announce the tuatara's identity when it is set up as a museum exliibit.