MISCELLANEOUS

Hokitika Guardian, 26 July 1922, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. ADMIRAL’S FUNERAL. MANILA, July 21. Twelve hundred members of the 45th Infantry Regiment, a company of marines, all dsiiiiors escorted Rear-Admiral Dumaresn s hodv from the Episcopal Cathedra! here to the San Pedro Maeat.i Cemetery, in which there are buried American soldiprs and sailors. Six army ifud navy officers, including tils commandants of Fort McKinley and the naval station, were pall hearers. (tov6ilioi-fli?neral Wo d, British Consul Harrington, arid tlie British community attended.

CARLE JURILEE. LONDON, July 24

The Eastern and Associated Telegnipli Companies celebrated their jubilee, entertaining .340 guests at a banquet at the Botanical Gardens, and 2000 at an al fresco fete, including Sir .Tames Allen, and the Agents-Goneral, ex-Governors of the Dominions, and prominent financiers, and business men. The Duke of York, proposing the toast of submarine telegraphy and its relation to the associated telegraph companies, said that what had been of the greatest Importance to the Eastern Company was the prodigious faith, courage, and business ability of the late Sir John Pender, whose genius stood out as a unique feature from the earliest days of submarine, telegraphy. The Duke of York referred to the astounding fact that the companies had laid down 28,000 miles of cable since the Armistice. He was greatly imoressed bv the speed of transmission Svdncv receiving the result of the Derby, for instance in two and a half miimies. He paid a tribute to the Compnnv’s services during the war, which greatly constituted to the success of the operations, and also the fact that they had sent millions of words free on behalf of wounded soldiers. Sir John Denison Pender, Managing Director of the Eastern and AssoeyPod Companies, replying, said trade tollowed the establishment of cable services. Two outstanding features which contributed to the development of the colonies were the sister enterprises ot s' ,; pping and cables,

INDUSTRIAL INSURANCE. LONDON. July 24

Mr McCurdy, speaking at Northampton, said the'next British Parliament must face the problem of industrial unrest, Since Armistice, 1.0,000,000 days’ work had been lost, through strikes, and lock-outs. The monetary loss had I wen at least £200,000,000. He said the State doles were an interference with industry, and they could not solve the problem. The workers, however, must ho given security against unemployment, sickness, poverty in old ago, and provision for tlifcir dependents after workers death. He believed he had devised a scheme under which, by the aid of co-operation between capital and labour, wealth, could he saved in periods of industrial peace and prosperity, which would give Die workers ample security in tunes ol depression. Instancing the hoot trade, he suggested that the men workers should contribute 2s weekly, and the women Is 3d. This, together with a lew of 3d per pair on the year s output of 1.000,000,000 pans of boots, would, with the present state contributions, provide £2.035,000 a. yearfrom which they could pay sickness and old aup pensions to the whole oi too employees in tlie industry, at the rate of at least 40s weekly for men, and o.ls for women. The employment benefit rates would he 35s and 20s respectively for men and women. He believed that eventually, by such means, the State’s contribution could be withdrawn. He said that trade experts had already approved his scheme.

EX N Z SOLDIER IN LONDON COURT.

LONDON, July 24

Robert Milligan was charged at Bow Street Police Court with breaking a window of the Nqw Zealand offices in the Strand. His grievance- was that the New Zealand Government would not repatriate him, because the period for repatriating soldiers to New Zealand expired last November.