TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 May 1922, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

BV TI'J.EORAPn— -MIESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT.

A R BITR AT JON ( OURT. AUCKLAND, May 22. The seamen’s dispute occupied the Arbitration Court to-day. Mr Smith in opening the case for the employers, said Now Zealand Season’s Industrial Association consisted of three unions, respectively, Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin. Wages and conditions for seamen and firemen had not been before the Court since March I!M>6. when in award was made for the districts mentioned. The present position was that the basic wage for all seamen and trimmers was 1 11 7s per month, an increase over 11)1-1 of Li is per month, and the overtime rate was increased from Is 3d and Is (id, to 2s Sid per hour and as a result of the eight lioui dav pavilion ts ini* oven inn.* wort* now nearly three Limes more than in 1011. Employers were asking for a return to the tales fixed to the 1017 agreement. The holding ol slopwork meetings occasioned a serious loss and the Court was urged to prohibit this. The formation ol a Disputes C oinniit tee which was a new proposal, was very neeessa.ry. Employers asked for a shortdaled award to Mart'll 31st 1021. NATIVE BOWLS. CHRISTCHURCH, May 18. The curator of the Canterbury Alu. scum (Professor Speight) has received from Colonel (I. Arnold Ward of Tauranga, two ancient Maori bowls found in the sandhills near Ocean Bench. Taiirangn. In a letter Colonel Ward mentions that he forwarded a specimen ■if the howls to Christchurch for exhibition in ltillO. but this had gone astray. He now gives the museum two specimens of interesting relies, undoubtedly verv rare, and which, he thinks, have not been found in any other neighbourhood than that of Tauranga. Even there at most 30 have been found. In 'is collection Colonel Ward has what he considers to lie four types of howls nauielv (a) one side very noticeably

-lived in get bias, on tile principle still adopted in the modern game: ib) one •fide concave, the other Hat, also to obtain bias; e) shaped like a section or thick slice cut horizontally from a very elongated cone, thus obtaining an cxtremelv pronounced bias, and only ol practical use. in tie language of the present-day howler, “in « very short head”; .(I) “straight” bowls, both sides living approximately fiat or slightly, hut evenly, rounded.

The howls sent by Colonel Ward are of types (a) and (bj. He states that one ediiiou of Captain Cook’s voyages mentions that the Sandwich Island natives played a game similar io our game of howls, using stones shaped like small cheeses, and weighing about three quarters of a pound. '1 he New Zealand howls answer the dosci iption, except in iveiuht. the specimens 1 dunging to C01,,1.el ~l.el 'ward varying Irom ahum 21b to Hlli.

WOUK SALK. XAIMKR, Mav tl’2.

'H e wool sales shown I a general ilirrease of ltd to 2d. I .o- lired sold up o tkl. cnilchiiigs o.',d, pieces .id, Southdown top price UP,d. Hver f" )•■'! cent ,|| the offerings were cleared under the liiiniincr.

I*CM)TIJALL RKKERKE ATTACKKD. KEVIN, May 22.

V disgraceful inciili*ut oeciirroil at Sham;.in nil Saturday during the Junior football match between Levin Rnv. ors and Shannon. Mr Claridge, the ieferee. ordered a local player nlf for obscene language. The* action was resented by the home team and speetaloi>. wiio closed round the referee and assaulted him rendering him unconscious and breaking bis jaw. He was removed to tin* Palmerston Hospital. Charges of obscene language and assault are to be laid against four Shannon players.