TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 February 1920, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

(pen PRESS ASSOCIATION. COPYRIGHT-,? A THUNDERSTORM. DUNEDIN, Feb. 2. A thunderstorm on Saturday evening did considerable damage to the road and the railway between Clyde and Cromwell. The gorge area was affected for about six miles, and traffic was suspended. About seventy men are making repairs, and it is expected the traffic will get through to Cromwell by car to-day but the train service will not resume till the end of the week. The stoppage is serious for the fruitgrowers.

THE MEAT TRADE. PALMERSTON N., Feb. 2. Representatives of the Amalagamted Freezing Companies and Farmers’ Union met here to-night. The principal speakers ,Messrs W. J. Poison and Hugh Burrell, emphasised that the Home markets were glutted with meat, and local growers were unable to get carcases away till the Imperial supplies had been cleared. This meant a complete glut and a serious outlook. It was resolved that the Government be asked if it is intended to send any commission appointed by the Domnion Conference of the Farmers’ Union and the Sheepfarmers’ Federation Home, and if not why not. STANDARD BOOTS. WELLINGTON, February 3. .The Board of Trade states, fconcerninrr the standard hoot scheme that there-are 31 boot manufacturers in the four centres of the Dominion .and from these 19 applications to manufacture have, been received, and Ul (including some of the largest- manufacturers in the Dominion) were granted. The manufacture of standard boots is now in hand, and they, will be on the market within a week or two from now.

THE SOLDIERS TROUBLE. CHRISTCHURCH, February 3. Concerning the trouble at Cashmere Military Sanatorium, at a conference hold to-day between officers and men, the authorities decided to instruct the orderlies to do all tlie work to which they objected to except the washing of dishes. The men held a meeting later and after being addressed bv the President and Secretary of the Christchurch Returned Soldiers’ Association decided to return to the sanatorium for a period of seen days, to allow the Returned Soldiers’ Association to negotiate with the authorities. The men state that if the authorities do not meet them on the dishwashing question by them, they will go “on strike” again.