DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 May 1924, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

ny TEL KG HATH IT. ESS ASSN'., COPYRIGHT. THE TlOAUl) OF ENQUIRY. A.S.R.S. OPPOSITION.

WELLINGTON, May -’3 Members of the A.S.It.S. are so g-icatly opposed to their case going before tl:o Arbitration Court sitting with one representative from each side, that .Mr Connelly’s declaration that nu ll a Court had been accepted is now likely to go by the board. This will mean that tho Government will have to settle the issues between the A.S.H.S. and itself. It will, no doubt, also result in the bringing of the issue directly before Parliament, but that. i, :l anv case, was a certainty, fhe A.S.H.S. executive is to assemble here on Friday, and after their meeting they will have an interview with the .Minister of Railways, probably' on the following Monday.

.MR M’ARI.ICY’S REPLY TO MR CONNELLY. WELLINGTON, Muv 23 Mr McArlev states, in rcpl.v to Mr Connelly, that Isis organisation, the E.K.C.A., took tlio initiative three times (luring; llic war to ggain a bonus, | although in the late Rigght lion R. J. Se(Ulon'.s time it had stood down to allow the men on a basic watte to gget ati increase. It struck in IR2O and obtained lis a day increase, with improved conditions for every mouther in the service of the Government. If Mr Connelly had not been so keen a tyro leader and had asked the IC.E.C'.A. lor assistance at the hcg'niniug; of the ncggutiations with the Government, the basic wagte man would have had a belter barggain made- for him than In .Mr Connelly.

DiHECTION-EINOING APPARATUS

AUCKLAND, May 2S

Successful tests with radio directionlindimt apparatus were <-arried out Lo(lav on board the Governmeut steamer Tutanekai. The vessel lei t, Auckland in a dense fort- having; on board representatives of the Harbour Hoard. Chamber of Commerce, Merchant Service Guild, and others. She anchored sonic distance down the harbour, and eel the hearing; of Tiri by the apparatus. The ship then proceeded dead slow, and navigtated from Rangtitoto beacon to Tiri entirely by means of her direction-lindillg; instrument. She made (lie land at Tiri exactly under tin- temporary radio station. M hen steaming; to Tiri the vessel went at three to four knots, ami at limes stopped, and so experienced the full effects of the tidal streams. The fog; only lifted when the ship was half a mile oil' Tiri. The unanimous opinion id' those on board was that the apparatus had fully proved its reliability and efficiency. Captain Goorggc Hooper, Nautical Adviser to the Marine Departmeut. and Captain William Whiteford, Ids assistant, operated the apparatus in the Tutnekai. WHALING SEASON. SENSATIONAL OPENIN(!. BLENHEIM'. May -JS. The Pit-ton whaling; season is reported to have opened in a rather sensational manner last week. A whale was sigghted in the .strait, and the Tory rhaiinel whale-chasers were soon in hot pursuit. Uulonkcd for developments occurred, however, througgli the premature explosion of a bomb, which. instead of penclratingg the whale, threw ils deadly missiles in all directions. Etn'lnnately mine ol the whalers were in the direct line of lire, and escaped injury, bill a piece of “shell'' penetrated the new whaling; launch above the water liie*. The damagge. however, was not o-rious. I-'oiii whale- were captured on Monday by the Poran whaling: party, two by Caclii'lot. This is a pioaiisingg Mart for what is expected to prove a siic<<"!'td sg-as.ni.