TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 October 1921, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[llV TELEGRAM —PER MESS ASSOCIATION

POSTAL PROMOTIONS. WELLINGTON, Oct. 19 Post and Telgraph promotions an

nmuieed include: — ! S. Ayling, Chief Postmaster to he * Chief Postmaster at Nelson. 1 W. T. Johnson, Inspector Wellington District, to he Chief Postmaster at Westport. | A. 11. Downer, Postmaster at Motu--1 eka to lie Postmaster at Reclloii. j 11. If. Cork, Chief Postmaster at Greyinouth, to ho Chief Postmaster at Wanganui.

DOMINION PRODUCE. FAULTY METHODS <>E MARKETING. WELLINGTON. October 17. Mr Stuart 'Wilson, who lias been on a trip to England and Europe, comes hack convinced that New Zealand is not getting a fair deal with her produce at Home. It is being used, he says, to Imlstor up the inferior products of other countries, and New Zealand does not get. credit for the superiod quality it turns out. Further, we are losing ground by the fact that we have no organisation for pushing our goods. He made inquiries of large firms as to whether they sold this or that New Zealand produce and was told they would be glad to. but noIxidy asked them to. In Liverpool lie was asked what had become of New Zealand lamb. The v newer saw it now. At the St. Louis World Fair seven years ago New Zealand won a gold medal for the best display by any State or country. No use was ever made of this victory over the world, and where is that gold medal now ? Other countries like Denmark and Sweden had organisations fiy pushing and for porteeting their produce. Tlie v did not allow their goods to Im used to recondition inferior stuff. and the methods they employed to prevent it. were tile methods New Zealand should use, too. Mr Wilson proposes to petition Parliament to take up this vital matter.

SECONDARY education. AMERICAN TENDENCIES. WELLINGTON, October 17. The Minister of Education will shortly receive an official report on certain phases of higher education in America, which Mr F. W. Milner, rector of the Wnitaki High School, was directed to investigate on behalf of Ihe Education Department,

The linn. C. .1 Pair, when questioned by a representative of ‘lie ‘ Lyttelton Times” regarding Mr Milner's mission, stated he had had nil opportunity of discussing some of his general experiences, and expected a very \ aluahle report mi the \meriraii sy--tem of junior high schools, which correspond in some degree with our technical high sehiMils ami s-rumln ry schools. Mr Milner had foiim'd ail impression of higher education in the State of California, which was ladievod to h' the most progressive of the American States in educational reform that they had regenerated or. 1"' might almost say. revolutionised the old English ciirrii ilium of instruction. and were on more practical vocational lines, dispensing very largely, as compared with New Zealand, with cultural subjects such as the dead languages which, remarked the Minister. foini such a prominent part, even yet of n ur high school curriculum.

DAYLIGHT BAKING. AUUKUWD. !! A cable received by the Secretary of Gc New Zealand .Under Bakers' Association slates ibe heil<-:a! (\rnvcnt ion “i -Master Makers of Australia and New Zealand in Sydney, adirnied that the experience of Australian States which adopted daylight baking, bad proved il bad increased the cost to tin- public, deteriorated the quality of the at tide supplied and was economically unsound. EM I’LOY.M KNT OF CHILDREN. AUCKLAND, Oct. 17. The Court set it- face against employment of children as strongly a- il could, and it did the best to -afeguard the matter, said Mr Justice Frazer in the Arbitration Court, when an application was made to have a Tnknpuna milk supplier added as a party to lie* dairy employee- atvatcl. Ilis Honour

staled, however, that until the law was altered, the Court could not do mote than it had done*; that wa.- to say. i could prohibit a man who was hound by the award through being an employer from employing children, but if a man was not an employer ol labour, it had no power to join him and get ai'him in that way. The milk supplier in question opposed the application on the ground that lie nils not an employer, saving lie* had only a few cows, and he and his family did all the work-. Mr I’ltrtell, who appealed fm U * Union, said there had been many complaints from Takapuna in regard to the employment of children. In striking out the application, the .Judge said that if a man employed an\-

bodv, adult or child, other than members of his own family, lie would come under the award automatically. ,SUPREME COURT. CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. in. At. the Supreme Court. Clive Oakenlull, alias Eric Jackson, for making a false declaration under the Marriage A'-t, was sentenced to three* months, in addition to eighteen months he is now serving for false pretences at Tinuiru. Harry ItriUrlilf for t’*e!‘t from his employer, received one year’s imprisonment.