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WELLINGTON, December 7.
Owing to. some dispute over wages, paid to casuals, a number of Government carpenters have resigned. They allege that casuals are paid more than regular hands further that wages have not been in the same proportion as other tradesmen.
A FOOLISH PROCEDURE,
WELLINGTON Ddc. 7.
Officers of th e Agricultural Department are concerned about the action of a fruit grower in Nelson district, who asked someone in the North .Island, to send him a specimen of wood affected with fire blight,- in order to see what it was like and to guard against its introduction. The wood was sent unprotected .by .chemicals. The, -.Agricultural Department \eonsider this is a good way to spread disease. The application i„, should have been made through.the proper channels. -They-.de-sire it to be known that, prosecutions will follow if persons ignore the .regulations as to the spread of this disease.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 December 1920, Page 1
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162TELEGRAMS. Hokitika Guardian, 7 December 1920, Page 1
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