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Hokitika Guardian, 28 March 1922, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

Notification appears in this issuo of the bankruptcy of Frederick Howard J uur. Lovers of dancing are notified that a dance will he held in the One Mil© Hall, Araihura Valley, on Wednesday, March 29th. Good music. Good floor Admission 2s and Is.—Advt. The first annual meeting of the Hokitika Beautifying Association will he held in the Town Hall to-night at 7.30 o’clock. A Very comprehensive report will lie submitted, and officers for the coming-year will, he elected. All subscribers and others interested are urged' to attend this meeting. Tlie monthly ' meeting will be held at 7 o’clock.

Private news was received this morning recording the death of All John Harris, which took place suddenly at Wellington last evening. The deceased was about 5 i years of age, and leaves a widow and one son. For many years deceased resided in Westland, at Hau Hau and later at Rirnu removing to Wellington some years a<ro Airs Harris is a member of the well-known Upjohn family, and is a sister of Air Albert Upjohn of Ross and Airs Oeapar of Rirnu.

At the Police Station last evening a presentation was made to Constable Quinn, who left this morning under transfer to Auckland at his own request. Sergt King made the presentation (an umbrella) conveying good wishes for the future, and expressing regret at the severance of the good relations that had always existed between them. Constable Flewellan also supported the expressions of good wishes Constable Quinn suitably replied.

creased, efficiency had decreased. He referred to there being a go slu ' v policy,, which, he said, was most pernicious, and was attended by serious results, and injured tlie public. The employers, lie said, asked tlie Court to substitute a “no discrimination” clause in place of the present preference to Unionists. One reason for this was that the preference clause had been greatly abused by waterskin tnions, especially of late years. At the present time the AVellington union demanded payment in advance of a sum of 60s before a man was allowed to join the union. Apparently it was made up of 5s entrance fee and 25s for a year’s subscription in advance, and 20s levy. The demand for a levy was clearly improper. Under tlie terms ol the existing preference clause, a levy could not, in the ordinary aeeeptanc|, of the term, he classed as a contribution.

Ah- Smith urged the Court to deprive t 1 v Union of preference. Aiodorate men, he claimed, only belonged to a union because, under the preference clause, they had to. They did not attend tlfe Union meetings, or even the stop-work ones. The control of the Union thus passed into the hands of men of, to put it mildly, very ad vanced views who ran the Union for the purpose of advancing their revolutionary theories, and made levies upon members which they knew .to be illegal and enforced payments by means of threats of exclusion from work, as had happened quite recently in connection with the Wellington Union. After the address, evidence was called.