TELEGRAMS

Hokitika Guardian, 1 September 1920, Page 1

TELEGRAMS

[per PRESS ASSOCIATION.—OOPYEIGIIT.]

LAYING UP STEAMERS. DUNEDIN, August 30,

Owing to the coal shortage, the Union Steam Ship Company lias decided to withdraw the Monowai from the East Coast service or. her arrival at Dunedin this week. She will lay up at Port Chalmers indefinitely.

The Mararoa, which has been reconditioned for the Napier-Auckland service, is also held up at Port Chalmers owing to the coal shortage.

MOKOIA HOLD-UP,

FIREMEN FINED

AUCKLAND, Aug. 28. In giving his decision in the case against twenty-two men of the Mokoia’s crew, Mr Cullen, S.M., said that the point that the ship was delayed only •half an hour was not important. The point was that the men’s action caused Sir ‘George Clifford to leave the vessel. They held up the boat, until they got their own way in the matter, which had very little to do with them. It was an extremely serious course on extremely inadequate grounds. The Magistrate imposed a penalty of £5 against W. Tighe, leaving the others to stand over, as suggested by counsel, pending an appeal.

SUGAR. SHORTAGE.

DUNEDIN, Aug. 30

Having no sugar to work with, the manager of Messrs It. Hudson and Co.’s big confectionery-making establishment, has been compelled to clcgse down. With the view of keeping going as many hands as possible, a general overhaul and smartening up of the premises is ordered, but this, of course, is only a temporary expedient. Since nobody can say when the next consignment of sugar will arrive, it is impossible to even guess when the manufacture wil start again.

SALE OF SAILING SHIPS. DUNEDIN, August el

Two vessels, the Shabistn and the Cosmos, which have been under charter to the Union Steamship Coy. for some time past, have been purchased by the Company, but it has not yet been decided on what route'; the vessels will be employed. The former ship which at present is at Lyttelton, changed bauds for one hundred end sixty thousand sterlink.

TAILORING TRADE. AWARD. CHRISTCHURCH, August 30

The Arbitration Court’s Award for the tailoring trade fixes the hours of work at 44 per week after January Ist. The minimum wages for males including pressers, are £4/10/-, plus 5/bontis and for females £2/10/- per week for the first six months after the completion of apprenticeship, and .thereafter not less than £2/5/-, plus 5j- bonus. Piece work is to be paid at the rate of 1/41 per hour for males and llcl for females.

QUESTION OE PASSPORTS. WELLINGTON, This Day

Strong objection was taken sometime ago to a. regulation requiring all passengers by steamer calling at Honolulu to carry passports vised by the American Consulate. The Secretary of State for the Colonies was advised by the New Zealand Government that passengers by British steamers for Vancouver should be exempt to this, if they wished to go ashore at Honolulu. Advice has now been received that the American Consulate at Auckland has been instructed from Washington that pajssports need not be vised unless passengers disembark in American teri iiory.