AUSTRALIAN

Hokitika Guardian, 12 July 1922, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION A TRADE COMPLAINT. (Received this day at 11.3(1 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 12. Tailors complain that the trade has assumed an unwanted phase. While ready made order shops cannot secure sufficient hands to keep pace with orders, the measured suit trade is slacker than for many years. The em. plovers are mystified whether the cause is attributed to dull times or is a reflex of opinion that prices will be easier when German goods reenter the market in August. MINER • PENA USED. SYDNEY, July 12 The miners’ Lodge Secretary was fined L's or a month for absenting himself from work without cause on 19th June. He elected to serve the sentence. It is understood over 1000 miners will he prosecuted similarly and they intend also to serve their sentences.

B At’KING DOWN. SYDNEY, July 12,

Barnes, acting general secretary ot the Australian Workers’ l nion, informed the district court that new rules made provision that members sign on at award rates, which is interpreted as a withdrawal of opposition to Justice Power’s award. 1X EECT f()US DISK A SES. MELBOURNE. July 12. During the last few months eight vessels have arrived from eastern porks with sum I Inox on hoard. Two landed suspected eases of plague and one landed n definite case. M A NDATFJ) TERRITORY. SYDNEY. July 12.

The “Morning Herald” in a leader dealing with the administration of tho mandate territories, referring to the New Zealand official report on Samoa, says some criticism regarding Samoa no doubt should be discounted, as emanating from vested interests, which have been prejudiced by the humanitarian policy of the Government. (Moreover expropriated Germans were naturally inclined to disparage th,. efforts of their successors, but a charge which appears to have some substance is that under the new regime there have been no economic or commercial progress. German planters knew their work and how to handle native labour so as to get more out of it. Since they departed, the management of the estates has been less effective. The newcomers lacked the practical expe ience, labour lias become less a men aide and productivity of the plantations has diminished. After reference to the difficulties of the situation including troubles arising from the prohibition law. it says nevertheless progress has been made and the administration can point to substantial achievements in public works and education, and the public we can hope, its a memory of their grievances fades, that the obstructiveness in certain quarters will be rn-

placed by a spirit of willing co-opeia-tion.