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Horowhenua Chronicle, 2 October 1915, Page 3

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Chronicle Uiiice M u.m. AUIUTKATION COUimS COMMENT Greyiuouth, This Day. In deciding that the old Watersulers' Union award of IUI3 is no longer valid and that the Union Steamship Compaiy has noL committed ;i breach ol' such award by employing new unionists, and entering into an agreement with the same, the Arbitration Court judgment comments that the old union seems to regard an award much as the Gorman.s regard an international'treaty— as a mere "scrap of paper"—binding on them if. and only wTieii it suited their own purposes, and just as the German view lias boon condemned by all civilized nations as absolutely destructive of international morality and good faith, so the Court thinks that if the union's view of an award were to prevail it would be absolutely destructive) of industrial morality and good faith.

A oiii to regulate the export oi butler noiu l\a\v Zealand was before the legislative Oounoii on i'T'ida-y whou .Sir i liuicib Uoll moved the'second reading oi die JL>uii-y industry Amendment lid, explaining Lliat its object was to pi-y\em. the export of butter containing an excels of moisture. ►sir William -uali-'-iuiieis expressed ins sutMacuon with the measure. Two years ago uioio. ,*as a shipment of butter with more liiau lo per cent of moisture aud considerable trouble was threatened, lie wa.i glad to see the responsibility tiirow n upon tiio lactones lo ioe mat the butter exported was of an unexceptionable texture. Xho butter industry was ol such importance tq iNlmv | Zealand that we could not be too-care-ful in regard to exports. The motion was agreed to and the Bill was bubse(juoiitlj; passed through its roinainiag stages.

Twenty trucks oi bed' woro load-jd at Longburn freezing works ou Tihury<luy night for export. I ; ho largo stock of frozen moat on hand at the works at the cud of tho season has nearly all been cleared out of the freezers. Tho machinery is now being thoroughly overhauled in readiness for next killing season.—Manawatu Times. J. A. I'Viiser, land agent, Palmerston North, has been adjudged bankrupt liahilities: x Unsecured £1078, secured 1008.- Assets: Book debts £10, propcity £440, surplus of securities £785, total -C 1223, leaving surplus to credit I' £154.