NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 January 1923, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

“Domestic troubles’’ are responsible for many of the ills which assail Ini inanity, and the term is apparently becoming an all-embracing one (says the Taranaki “News’’l. Recently an employei of a certain Taranaki local body applied to his lorcmau lor a fortnight’s holiday, alleging ns an excuse that lie had domestic troubles hanging over him, and consequently could not work:. The foreman h nt a ... vin pa the t ic ear. and i-aidily granted leave. A fortnight later the emphi.v- ---,(. wo,,| I,;,ck and quietly resumed his duties after having served t-u (lav-, in durance vile at the expense oi Ills Majesty’s Government, a penalty impend bv a magistrate for the troubled (tinf: * i 1 n !*i‘ 'l«i pay a debt. “Vnil rant die cllfitpl.ViM'ifVti’iy •<! ;i mcml'ior of ilu 1 Paliiatim Comuy Copneil when social wcll'a-e mat tors were liniler consideration, and ar-.-l-t----anee had been asked for itinera! ‘‘v-pen-'rs of a former r Sidr!lt who died in anoilier district (reports lie l’ahia- | oa 1 ' 11 ora Id.” ). Then there followed a little discussion on undertakers b-s-Not only was t!;o cost of living hiyrh. hut also the mst e.f dying. .sume.m • ..-aid tba! £25 winc ed for only an ordinary burial. The request for Iman- ( inl aid. u as re K* rod 10 ti'“ ! I n-i»it.il ■ ~i-d in the ilist i it t where the funeral During diseussi-oi by tlie I ngh-v, o-.d County Council upon the state oi a certain bridge in the comity, "hie was known to he in a dangerous e d'ftion, the < ousultin>; < agin- er marked thai it was an axiom among local hodh- chat they w- re not |m>..o for what, they did not do. ''ln.' was ii-cu:vd v. hen work wa- done in a faulty manner, or which did i.oi eonelip to : peeilieauns. It a brume •k! si w<>!t*«l 'used iiy the puhlw at their own risk. There has been seme activity anion-:-: chocs,- buvers in Taram'ki during the past week. Him factory in the St-’«t-ford district is reported to have tunidown lho buyer's offer, and given

his In ai a chance 10 do business at Oju and lOd for January and February production. One company closed at 9d for delivery in February 1.0. b. Nov. Plymouth, and it is understood that th same linn closed with Ha went and Eitlinm companies oil practically tun same basis. in almost every gro-er’s -hop v-iu-dllw one will see Californian or Australian dried fruit, and it would stem ns if there is scope fur extension in tlie dire; lion in Now Zealand. Air T. \Y. llw- ml. president, and managing director, of the New Zealand 1-init Grovers’ Federal ion. before leaving for England, said very little dik'd fruit was prepared in New Zealand, as there is sm-h a range of latitude that we can get fresh fruit all tlie year round, and for that reason there is not a very h-rgo market f t it in the Dnj minion. Theie is. however, an iinknii ited mar!.et for it outside the Dnminiien. | AI pre-.'nt New Zealand growers ] cannot compete, and it is the process j that is the LmiHe. Nearly a!! fruit i- iiov. dried by dehydration, very little 1 eing -en-d-i'd. for the modern liieili(‘l is quicker and ('leaner. It would

i, ; dv le a paying piuposition to put ill a big plant of this kind ii fruit was ■ pe,dully grown in large quantities, as the quaiititv now produced would not justify the expenditure. Labour eondiiiuiis also are very complex p >t now, ivhidi w. I! id so make it very difti- • u!t f n Xe'.v Zealand to compete with those .’.lii lave made this hnsinoss a lifelong studv. T'ne prineipnl linns at pi'csciii manufacturing jam. dried or luutK'd fruit in the Ifenunion 'are situated at Aueklnnd, Nelson and Dunedin.