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Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1924, Page 3

LATE LOCALS

A light earthquake shock was expel ieiicetl tiii.s morning about (i o’clock.

The complimentary social to lie tendered to Mr J. Steele, the West Coast All Black, takes place in the Soldiers llr.ll on Friday, and is going to he a very popular gathering. 'I he attendance will he substantial and will include a number of visitors from Greymouth. Very (omldctc arrangements are being made to ensure tin* comfort of patrons and to make the social a very complete success.

A writer in the correspondence columns of a London daily has the following to say:—Surely our big industrial concerns will pause before they put the rope around their own necks hv engaging forcignei- as correspondeiice clerks ! I lie ,-auie sort ol thing happened mole than lorty years ago. I remember very well when, about the year 1880. the train which took me to business carried more German clerks than British. These Germans wcie either the sons of big business men in Germany "ho came here for no salary at all on the pretext that all they desired "as the acquisition of the English language, or young men specially sent over by their employers, who accepted ridiculously small salaries. Nearly all of them came here tor the purpose of acquiring what particn.ars they could of British business mid getting hold of the names and addresses of the customers. This done, tliev ietumed to Germany, and it was not long before some of the British firms wont under. cut out by tho ' heapin' prices ollored by theii German rivals.