VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 August 1921, Page 3

VARIOUS DOMINION ITEMS.

>. TELEGRAMS.

>N. [BY TELEGRAPH—PEH TIIESS ASSOCIATION* 1 BRIAN AJcLEARY’s '■ COMMENT. ; CHRISTCHURCH, August 8. 1 Sol » e criticism of the ability of the judges officiating at the boxing championships at Greymoutli, was made last >o evening by Brian McCleary, the. amat_ teur heavy-weight champion at meet--1,1 of St Patrick’s Sports Association. He e*s said that judges had shown marked in>y j ability, and in several bouts the doth | vision had been made by referee Robson f- . who in every case, had given what the k> , speaker considered the correct verdict 1 j SUDDEN DEATH ' d j WELLINGTON, August 3. sf | The Superintendent of Police has j received 'information that William | Robinson, aged 70, dropped dead at his residence Upper Hutt, yesterday. PRICE OF SUGAR. K WELLINGTON, Aug. 4. Details ol the new contract between ( the Governmont and the Colonial Sugar ' Company have not yet been announced, C but there is good reason for believing that the price of sugar is going to he reduced by at leastT one penny per pound, when the new arrangements come into operation. FEDERATION SECRETARY -MR ARBUCKLE RETIRES. j 0 WELLINGTON. Aug. 4. j lion, the position of General Keeretan of the .Miners Federation is announced. Candidates for the position are: AT'.' 1 ISablerstone (Blackball), F. 11. Grant | ( A!illertini). .1. O’Brien (Hiintly), P. O’Rourke (State Mine), W. Franks Piikemiro). W 11. Smith (RotmvnriD. A ballot is now proceeding among the , affiliated unions. TELEGRAPHIC INNOVATION. | WELLINGTON, Aug. 4. i ~ . . I 1 or a good many years past, mention has hiHtn made from time to time, of . the intention of the Telegraph Depart- j ment to . introduce the Murray tele- , graphic printer, the invention of a New j Zealander. The war intervened and the machines are only now beginning to . como to hand in parts. The key-hoards j and distributors for eight sets arrived i some months ago. and operators have been learning how to handle (he instrii- . moots, which are extremely delicate, Eight- receivers have just arrived, hut these are of the Bordeaux type, which differs from the Murray. They are preferred in America, as errors are more easily corrected, hut print on a I ape instead of filling up the whole page, like Murray’s. The latter, how. ever, are in such demand that they could not be obtained for another year. The instruments are very costly, two complete sets running into £4,000, 1 9 hey will be employed in the cities to | begin with, and some large provincial towns will then be connected up, but it is not likely any will be in practical | working order till the end of the year, r THE FEDERATION VIEWPOINT. ' j WELLINGTON, Aug. I , •Mr J. Arbuckle (Secretary of tin* .Miners’ Federation) in reply to the . mine owners refusal to consider a re- r , newa! ol the national agreement, states | the Federation will not. consider local agreements. The miners will light to , the last ditch before giving tip the national Agreement, which was only brought about after negotiations had cost the Government, miners and owners milch money. We now have the owners refusing to continue the form of agreement under which the industry is more settled than previously. There „ can only he -one reason for the owtiers present attitude, namely, separating the miners unions and bursting up the Federation, so that the owners will Liable to defeat the Unions singly, and enforce the old conditions, which wen*! a disgrace. A preliminary conference, . such as proposed, would be fruitless,' as the minets have already decided to . stand or fall by the national agreement. 1 Air Arbuckle "reiterates the request - for another conference to consider a re- 1 uewttl of the national agreement. The j miners'will cease work if the Arbitra- ! tion Court makes awards over-riding the present national agreement. , « .MINERS DISPUTE. j v DUNEDIN, August I. j x Assessors for Miners Unions in the s Otago Southland dispute in which men j e

were cited by employers and did not | s appear before the Conciliation Council, i <■ This morning Commissioner Hugger J a said lie would advise the Unions to : s appoint assessors and if they did not. | he would himself appoint them, and u if they did not turn up the dispute h would go before the Court as r.o re'/mimcndatinn. Bishop, acting ; l u-re- t! tarv Miners Association said that lie ( t had been notified by the Federation u that it would not recognise the Arbitration Court. The Owners only ron- n son ill seeking individual agreement <> was that they found it impossible to u make arrangement in any other way. |, the conditions being different at the 1 various mine*). 1 i Th(« sitting was adjourned till 23 tl August for the Commissioner to act n »» indicated. 1 a; t! supreme conn’. 1 CIIIIISTCIirRCII, Aug. I. „ The hearing of the charge against ~ Julia Maria Fitzgerald, formerly post- |, mistress at Blaekliall, of having opened st a postcard, was resumed. Accused said s j s!ie tirsr thought the charge against her | ( was a joke. As soon as she discovered !1: it was serious, she got into touch with her superior oflieer in Greyinoiith. Mr f, Redmond. the Departmental Inspector, jl thought, she was guilty and advised her || to make an admission. He said that if w -he did not do so, there probably would In- a vi- li t ease. She made it quite j, clea- t - Redo on I that she did not j-, i. * * *i the letter. (_] Hanna’: Cn-m'hell, sister of the ae- „ .1, said tit" accus’ d previously had g loeke-l al'er Gilmer’s hooks, handled g his ioo!."v and opened his letters. Witness toiil accused not to sign the „ adiniss! n if she was not guilty. She said that, she had been worried bv Red- g, ii. and had admitted tlm net. ~ The ease is proceeding. mm i iti——inniiHi—nunrr> •