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Hokitika Guardian, 25 February 1920, Page 3

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Electric Telegraph—Cop., igiifej THE STEWARDS SCORE.

! SYDNEY, Feb. 24. Tlie Owners have agreed to pay stewards a minimum wave of £l3 per month for a ten hour day, and two shillings per hour overtime, including Sundays and holidays. THE PACIFIC PROBLEM.

SYDNEY, February 23

The Reverend Piper, a Fijian Missionary, in an adddress, said the Native races of the Pacific were passing slowj ly, but surely, off the stage’. In twenIty years the Fijians would bo outnumbered by the Indians in Fiji, and in sixty to a hundred years there would he a "small India in the Pacific. The Indians sent to "Fiji, were slum dwellers, who had lost caste, distinction, and nil the oid ideas. They were divorced from religion and morality. 'Hie Indian problem was testing the best Christian efforts in the Pacific. The Hslands of the Pacific would never he white men’s islands, but it was for the whites to see that their oricntalisation proceeded on the best lines.

shipping strikes. SYDNEY, February It is officially stated that .the strike Jposftion is unchanged. Until the Queensland representative reaches Melbourne, it is unlikely that anythink will lie done towards a settlement. On the other hand, Melbourne reportsstate there will be a general resumption by the engineers to-morrow. SYDNEY", February 24.

Though the marine engineers may resume in a few days a mass meeting of seamen hero to-day resolved not to man the ships until the Federal Government removes the section of the War Precautions Act preventing seamen from loading ships to obtain work. Similarly, they refuse to man any ships until the accommodation is satisfactorily altered.

A CLERICAL VETO. SYDNEY, This Day. In connection with the declared in—tion of Chaplain Wilson to stand for election for the State Parliament, the Methodist Conference decided that he be required, either to decline candidature or retire from the Ministry as clerical influence in Parliament was undesirable,.

LABOR ASPECTS. (Received this day at 10.1 A a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Owing to the refusal of the Ihuilders to work on Saturday, Mr Lawson has suspended all awards in connection with the trade for twelve months. The Arbitration Court discharged the rule nisi calling on the Marine Engineers to show cause against the deregistration. BRISBANE!, This Day. Tennis—Lowe defeated St John 6-2, 6-1; Beamish defeated Peareli 6-2, 6-7. Doubles—Lowe and Beamish defeated Radeliffe and Wilson, 7-5, 6-2, 6-4.