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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. LATEST DANCE STEP. THE “CAMEL WALK.” LONDON, August 21. Th© “camel walk”, or the “American walk,” described hy dance experts ns a straightforward walk without a wriggle or a shake, is expected to be all tlie rage in London during the coming season.
At present it is going strong in Paris and its devotees explain that it is danced to fox-trot" music, with a graceful swinging of the body, suggesting the rolling of the wages. It is the onetime “shimmy” modified into a dainty side-step. CIVIL SERVANTS’ PROTEST. LONDON, Sept. 2. Two thousand civil servants demonstrated at Trafalgar Square protesting against the rates of pay fixed for live thousand men and two thousand women who recently were given permanent appointments, after serving in a temporary capacity for several years, and passing an examination. The speakers declared that the rates ranging from 57s weekly for third grade clerks to 70s weekly for first grade, are sevcm to twenty shillings below tlie amounts paid to temporary employees, who failed at the examination and also below tlie rates paid to manual labourers,
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 September 1922, Page 1
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186MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Hokitika Guardian, 5 September 1922, Page 1
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