NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 April 1923, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

Some 12 or 13 years ago, -Mr Ay soil, the Government Inspector of Fisheries, liberated some fry of the Atlantic salmon on the shores of Lake To A nan. The fry was obtained from Scotland, and it should be mentioned that this salmon is distinct from the quinnat salmon caught on the west coast of America, and also acclimatised in New Zealand. For a number of years no trace was obtained of the fish placed in Lake Te Anau, and it was generally considered that they had dietl or been eaten out hv other fish. The fish did not die, however. They evidently made their way to the sea, and indisputable , evidence is now available that they have returned to their first haunts. -Mr ]|. Lyn, of Christchurch, has just caught 2o Atlantic salmon, in the rpukerora River, which runs into Lake !e Auau, and .Mr Eustace Russell has caught ff. One salmon weighed 111 b, Three of the Atlantic salmon are being forwarded to Dunedin (states tiie “Otago Daily Times”). The Atlantic salmon is a very fine sporting fish, and it is confidently expected that when it becomes generally known that they can he secured in the southern rivers fishermen from overseas will visit New Zealand to indulge in the sport of catching them.

‘‘Too many servant girls and women steal and expect to get out of it lightly,” commented Afr K. K. limit. S.AI,, in the Wellington Magistrate's Court recently, when Florence Smith came forward for sentence on a charge of stealing a small sum of money. According to Chief-Detective Kemp, the accused at the time the theft was committed was in receipt of a weekly wage ol LT 10s, hut she had been charged originally with stealing ,C2 12s, hut this had been reduced to 2s. Nothing else was known against her. 11 is Worship warned the accused that it she came up again she would lie sent to Point llulswoll. “You will be eon-I victed and ordered to come np for sen- I leiice when called upon,” he added. | “Now go away and don’t let me see! von again.” Enough butter to supply every man iml women and child in New Zealand | ii ith their normal consumption ol * miter for two years ahead had been unde In tfie preseni season by the V'eu Zealand Co-operative Dairy Com- 1 icily, I.milled, by the end of March states ti c “New Zealand Herald”), j lie exact manufacture to this date was I 9,722 tons, or -M.2sn,flfi(ilh. For slat-j -tical purposes it is usual to allow I ’olb of butter per head per annum, s-j | hat. this company’s output alone re-1 iivsents two years’ consumption for j he whole population of .New Zealand.

It is not often that the seagull develops the tendencies of the ken, Imt such would appear to be the case on a farm adjacent to Levin (says the Kevin ‘'Chronicle”). For some days a large grey and white gull has been a frequent visitor, and afterwards sheep have life'll found wandering about minus their eyes. The owner killed some of the unfortunate animals, leaving one iinhuried with poison applied to the sockets. Next day the gull was found not tar away, a i iclim to ii - on n "The damage is not computable in l.'.s.d. I would in.ii he surprised In j to.ini i hat line acre of ragwort would ! i■: 111 m• Loll umth of damage to the 1 ow m i and hi- neighbours." said Air A. Al. Alov len, S.M.. in the AfagisIrnle's (unit. New Plymouth (reports the "News"), when hearing an information against a farmer lor tailing to i|e-t my noxious weed-. A i oinj)ai iso ll was draw n between the English and New Zealand ia;tne< by a young: Kt:gli-liman employed on a farm in the neighbourhood of Afor--1 insvil!e (slates the "Vl’aipa Post"), lie says that the New Zealander lakes more iuiere -1 in hi- holding and i not otiiy anxious to learn hut also to teaih others. This young man su'd he had h unit more about farming during the twelve months he had spent in Now Zealand than he could have learnt in twelve years in England, where, it wit- -aid. it took 2!) years to make a farm, while in this country it took only three years to make a farmer, "and a d good one. 1oo.” he coneluded. The belief that the dried, milk industrv would one day come into its own was expressed by a company ollieial when giving evidence before the Arbitration Court at Auckland in the dairy workers' dispute (states the "Herald"). lie said that dried milk was Inning a hard struggle lor existence, hut those interested wore looking to the time when the industry would he firmly established. He added that travellers were, creating a market around the Pacilh . and he believed the industry, which had been established at heavy east, would even- j lually come into it- own. That one oiled of I lie l l-e in wage- i made hv recent Arbitration Court , Awards was to create a new class oi j Unemployed was the opinion expressed | hv Palmerston North's relieving officer to a "Daily Times” reporter. I’hesu were middle-aged men, whom employers said thov could no longer ulforil to keep at the new wages, ami replaced by younger and mote active employees. The relieving officer mentioned in particular hotel and restaurant workers, quoting a ease of one man who was all excellent cook and waiter, but rather deal. He lived oil hi- savings as Mug as they lasted, and had then walked out of town, lie was now working at one of the Power Hoard camps, there were many instances where middle-aged men totiiid it impossible to find work. ■The biggest soaker in the city" was the wav a lazy, drunken husband wm described 1 y a social worker at Auckland. The wife had applied for relief. "I'd put that kind oi man somewhere where he would have to keep his wife and live children, ' was what the woii-.- j or said, "and it ho did not uo as fie [ was told I would not give him food till j he did so. so as to give him a taste of j what he had been meting out to other- j for years." The lazy husband doe? j more to create slum areas than all j other factors i-ombined. because he is j a drone who drags others down and j never does anything to build up. Our | civilisation is not complete till the proIdem of those men is solved." The proposals ol a Dill to regulate j the conditions of domestic service in j Poland are printed in the current is-j sue of "Industrial and Labour Inlur- \ motion." the weekly publication ot the | International Labour Office of the j League of Nations at Geneva. The j working conditions agreed on by the 1 two parties, it is stated, must lie specified in writing, ami copies kept j both by the employer and the worker. : The r-f cement may be cancelled with- 1

! out notice by the employer if the 'Cr- ’ van! in-tilts the employer or hi> ! family: neglects the children entrusted ] to his or her care; is intoxicated or i- guilty of immoral conduct ; is guilty of any crime or breach of the law : lor a period of more than three weeks is unable to work on account of illness. The agreement may he cancelled without notice by the .servant-—if he or she is initilted by the employer: if the employer changes his residence: in the event of the death of the husband o; v. ife or a near relative of the servant : j in the event of his or her marriage. I he elfcctive working day may not ex- | coed twelve hours, with an interrupt ion j oi two hours on week days and six I hours on Sundays and holidays. Serrants arc entitled in two week-’ holiday with pay after one year’s service. | If this holiday i- spent away from iln. i home of the employer they are ontiilod. | in addition to their ordinary wages, to j a special indemnity equivalent to three j times their wages.