LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 June 1921, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

Dr J. A. Doctor, of FeathorstonO, is now on a holiday visit to Hokitika and district, having arrived from the north last night. Dr Doctor purposes spending part of his holiday in South Westland, and will visit that locality next week. His many friends will be glad to find him in excellent health and the best of spirits.

At the Magistrate’s Court to-day, before Messrs Evans and Keller, Justices, an offender was charged with drunkenness in the vicinity of the Supreme Court the previous evening. After hearing the statement of the police, accused was convicted and fined Cl, or forty-eight .hours’ imprisonment.

The following will represent School Ist. Fifteen in their match with Grey School, Ist. Fifteen on Cass Square at 1.30 to-morrow :—Emmett, Dennison, Williams Baird, O’Neill, Houston, Staines, Butlnnd, Kelly, Wogan, Aitken K., Mclntosh, Aitken A., Breeze. Nightingale. Emergencies—M. Kelly, and Preston. All players must ho on the ground at 1.15 p.m.

At meeting of the English Electric Company, Sir ('. Ellis (chairman) mentioned that their contract with the New Zealand Government for the electrification of Arthur’s Pass section of the Midland Railway is proceeding satisfactorily. Relative to the Labour position the chairman said their own workmen had settled down and were working hard and well. Nono the less, the wages rates in British engineering, and even more tn the industries supplying materials, were leading to the loss of many important contracts in world competition. If they were to extend or lolly regain prewar business, considerable reductions would be necessary in the price of those materials, and therefore, in the cost of the whole range of orocessos through which they were built up from the basic materials of coal and iron. He had no doubt they would he able to meet the crisis if both employe)s and workers could he assured that the necessary sacrifices were distributed as fairly and equitably as is humanly possible. The revival of trade would come sooner or later, and the electrical industry bad iin assured future because it was bound up in those improvements and economies in productive organisation which they all regarded as a necessary element in the future prosperity of the world.