LATE LOCALS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1919, Page 3

LATE LOCALS

Tenders to close on Wednesday next are invited in this issue for the purchase for removal of the Woodstock School residence. Tenders close with Messrs Wells Bros and Sons., Woodstock.

The match against Ala lists at Greymouth to-morrow has been forfeited by Hokitika. Instead thereof a game will bo played on Cass Square at 3 p.m. between Excelsiors and Kiwi teams. They are as follows: —Excelsiors—AVogan.AVood, Stapleton, Rothwell, AroDonald, White, Maunder, Dcvancy, Aitken, Boyd, Thompson, Howat, Lloyd, Perry, Aitkcn. The Kiwis are—S. Caylor, AV. Ross, R. Ross, AV. Stephens, 0. Walker, L. Jones, H. Davidson, AI. Haile, Rooney, Simpson, Kidd, J. Alnefarlane, AV. Ritchie, G. Foote, J. Wright. The game will be controlled bv Air AV. Wilson.

A Sydney correspondent wrote oil the (3th inst:—“As an instance of how the seaman’s strike blindly and heavily hits Australian interests, while foreign shipping is unaffected, take the ease of the Sonoma and tin* Alakura. The

Sonoma will leave here this afternoon a full ship for San Francisco. She is owned and managed in California. The crew are tinder American articles. The Alakura, which arrived the other day from Vancouver, is a vessel of which the Union S.S. Company is owner and agent. She sails oil the All-Red route. The service to which she belongs keeps Australia, New Zealand and Canada in touch, but she is under Australian awards, and on arriving here the crew with no special disadvantages or grievances in view, simply joined the strikers, and the Alakura is indefinitely laid up. If any Australian has urgent business in America, or has to take that route to Britain, he must go in a vessel under the Stars and Stripes, not in a British ship, if he goes at all. The Niagara, another of the Union line, is duo very soon, and if she comes here, and if she shares the same fate, then tlio All-Red route will be closed because Thomas AValsh is in gaol for breaking the law.”