TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1920, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

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THE WELLINGTON STRIKE. WELLINGTON, August 23. The employers will not engage any more wharf labour except for interisland boats till the men agree to work the phosphate shop at award rates. If the trouble causes the electric light to ,fai)„ Parliament may h;tve to stop night sittings. AIRPLANES FOR TIMARU. TIMAETJ, August 23. Government is giving five airplanes to a local syndicate for use in the southern part of the .South Island for civil aviation.

NO SIGN. " AUCKLAND, Aug. 23 The Monowai’s captain says he passed the spit of the reported wreck between 12 and 2 o’clock on Sunday and saw no sign of it. He says it -was probably the Kia Ora standing oif in the bad weather the watchers saw. ARMOUR AND COY.

PALMERSTON N., Aug. 24. Manawatu A and P Association passed a resolution to-day that it is not in accord with the request from the South Island to grant Armour and Coy. a license to trade in New Zealand, and asking the Government to stand firm in the refusal, to grant such a license under any consideration whatever.

STOCKS IN CHISTCHURCH. CHRISTCHURCH, August 24. “The local stocks of coal are not sufficient to place any industry in a safe position,” said the Secretary of the Coal Trade Committee to-day. “The Gas Company, on Monday morning, did not have enough coal in sight- for Wednesday’s supply. We got coal out of the Westport Company’s hulk in Lyttelton and from the Koromiko now discharging in Lyttelton ; and we have held the fort up till the arrival of the Kittafva. We will be able to supply the Gas Company with coal for at least six days, or possibly seven. Several other industries are in a similar position. Stocks of hard coal are said to the non-existent in Christchurch.”