TELEGRAMS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 May 1921, Page 4

TELEGRAMS

VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS.

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WATERSIDE LABOUR

A VEXED PROBLEM

WELLINGTON, May 11

Mr J. 6. Harkness was to-day reelected chairman of the Harbour Board. He said the year they had just passed through had been one of exceeding difficulty and trial. For the coming year the prospects were that the difficulties would be increased, and that the Bp.ird would have to contend with tee Harm factors as last year. It was not only going to be a difficult but a trying ymr. While they had ideals as to wh it they would like to see accomplished, (here would be need for considerable pa tie nee on their part.

Referring to the waterside labour problem, he thought that during the coming year it would be incumbent on them and other employers of labour on the waterfront, to bring about some settlement, not of a temporary, hut of a permanent nature, regarding waterside labour. He was hopeful that if the Harbour Board and other employers of waterside workers, were sincere in their desire to make things better, there was no reason why an amicable arrangement overcoming all difficulties could not be come to.

Members said they realised the magnitude of the work before them, and that it would be necessary to call very largely upon the human element to arrive at a satisfactory arrangement in connexion with the staff ahd.with labour on the waterfront generally.

THE CHIEF RABBI. A CIVIC RECEPTION. WELLINGTON, May 10 The Chief Rabbi, Hr Herbs, was welcomed at Wellington at a civic reception. Expressing thanks for the cordiality of his welcome, he remarked that liberty and toleration were the reigning factors of the life of the people of New Zealand. This was specially welcome in view of the wave of intolerance sweeping across Western countries. New Zealand had the healthiest climate and people, and the country was the experimental laboratory of intellectual ideas and civilisation. People realised that the clock of progress sometimes needed winding, and that constant, violent winding caused the clock to stop. ‘ The ideal of tolerance and liberty seemed nearer realisation in the southern hemisphere than in the northern. He was not sure it had not already been realised.

• THE WRECKED HUANUI. GTS BORNE, May 12 The Huanui is now hard up on the beach, having worked in with the tide six foot deep. At low tide it is possible to walk up to the vessel. The false keel and part of the main keel carried away and washed up on the beach. The cargo, consisting of 650 cases of kerosene, a thousand eases of benzine, thirty tons of coal, ten tons of salt, and seventeen hundred feet of timber, is intact. About midnight a storm coming on, Capt Anderson decided to drop anchor under shelter of Nicks Hoad, Imt when proceeding across the hay, the gale suddenly veered from westerly to southerly and he dropped anchor too late, the vessel being carried close inshore. At seven o’clock it was thrown up on the bench. If the weather moderales soon, it is expected the vessel will get off. The Huanui is owned by F. Hall of Gisborne, and is partly insured for £1,500.

A COMPLAINT. AUCKLAND, May 12. A complaint has been made to Hon Coates by Mr Savage M.P., that during the last fortnight members of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers have been discharged from the Newmarket Railway Workshops, and other men have since been engaged for the same work. He states that the men discharged were engineers from England, who had a verbal understanding from a Government representative here that they would get six months employment at their respective occupations. . Mr Low, engineer, denies knowledge of any agreement, and says the men are discharged from time to time because they do not give satisfaMion. then others are taken on.

ALLEGED THEFT OF GEMS. WELLINGTON, May 11 A man named Herbert James Mailer was arrested in Sydney on a Wellington warrant, on a charge of theft of £377 worth of gems. Mailer left Wellington by the last steamer and was apprehended on arrival in Australia. ! RAILWAY COAL STOCKS. DUNEDIN’S HUGE PILE. DUNEDIN, May 11 The coal pile on the railway enclosure at the south end of Dunedin grows larger and larger. Nothing like it was ever seen here before. As the pile stands at present it consists of between 35,000 and 40,000 tosn, Day by day it increases. It is said to be the intention of the authorities to go on until there is an accumulation of 50,000 tons. This coal has come from several parts of the world; some from Newcastle (New South Wales), some from Japan, some from California, some from Cardiff in Wales. Not a hint has been dropped as to the money value represented. Put qt £5 a ton, it means the thick end of a quarter of a million sterling. Other big heaps are being stacked by the Railway Department at various centres.

PRICE OF BUTTER. CHRISTCHURCH, May I*2 Regarding the retail price of butter, Mr Witty, M.P., has telegraphed to Mr Noswortiiy, Minister of Agriculture, as follows:—“The people here are indignant at the Government upholding the price of butter by way of a subsidy. Rutter is sold at a less price in Britain than here. Please give this matter your serious attention.” Mr Noswortiiy/ replied:—“Received your telegram regarding price of butter. It will receive consideration.”