TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 September 1922, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

UV TEL KURA PH—PER PRESS ASSOCIATION] NON-UNIONISTS ABOARD. SHORT-LIVED DISPUTE. AUCKLAND, Sept. 2(5 The Arahura’s stokehold hands refused to sail with six seamen for Napier to join the steamer Baden Powell, which is not under tlie agreement and therefore can employ nonunionists. Finally the seamen came :n shore and the vessel sailed for Gisborne an hour late. The Araliura’s own seamen dirl not take part in tlie dispute.

BRICE OF RUTTER. AUCKLAND, Sept. 20

Following up the (inning of the market for butter in London, the price was advanced Id o n r lb to-day. This makes the wholesale quotation Is 9{d per lh. and for cash across counter the price is 2s per lh. At 220 s per ewt (.bn latest quotation from London, the f. 0.1). price here for export is Is Pd per lit for hotter in bulk. If to that is added Fid per lb cost of making into nats and delivering for the local trade flic present wholesale rate is still 3'hi per lb below tlie parity of prices IV*export. The present downpour of rain, if it only lasts long enough to <rive the ground a good soaking, will le worth hundreds of thousand* to the dairv industry alone. So far Die season has opened snleiulidlv. The butter graded for August showed an iimrease of 129.58 per emit as compared with the same month in 1921. Ti e ehcesc shows a falling off, which is evidence that factories with doubh* plants are turning their attention to" the production of lint ter.

DENUDIN' LABOUR r'.vtMDATFN DUNEDIN S- oi j 'Mr W. Brown, who was recently se-| Deled by the Ongo Labour Tfeoresen- j lotion Committee to contest tin* Dunoilip f'entrul seal in the interests of Ihe Labour Bartv. lias withdrawn. MI Gilchrist being selected in Ins r M Moss. IVosid* HI of the I. t? (' I,as ~*i<,s,u, to 's oi test H'e • Do*' -r,| West electorate. : MR CRAIGTE RETIRING. j TTVt'nr Sent 29. Mr .1 allies Craigitt. .51.1 V. in a published address tr Ids constituents, has dotinitrlv aimnoeod that lie u'ill not seek re.elation at the close of the present Parliament. , A TRAVEL t E't’S DEATH. ! I AM'Elt A . Sept, 29. ! AV. D. Tnvior. a traveller, died at a pVivato hosnital this morning as the •result of a fall from a push-hike caused through a dog running out on til** road and mv-otting him.