WELLINGTON NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 August 1924, Page 1

WELLINGTON NOTES.

TIIK RUGBY CONTROYERSY. (Special to “Guardian”.) WELLINGTON. A"g. 4. Rugby enthusiasts here are still debuting the unpleasant incidents that iinfo ■tunately arose just prior to the departure of the All Dlacks. Dr M<> Kvedy started off hy white washing the lion .!. (•. Coates, and contended that there was nothing ot a politne.l nature in the ivf|Ues’t that he .should deliver a nie:-*i ige to tire Miin.-igcmeni Couiinittee of the Rugby Union. lie dee.- not explain why the Minister was i-boxen, nor have we any of the details of how, when and where the message was delivered. These details are not likely to he published ju-t at present. The <jiie*liou of the status of "Dinger" Niehnils who i- one of the ullicial parly with the All Blacks has been incidentally menlioned by the doctor who slated that he donated livi guineas to the Xii holl- siih-eription. on th.e distinct understanding that Xichoils went as a private individual and lint a* a player, and yet he was actively urging that Wright should he sent with the team as a player notwithstanding that he knew (so he alleged) eel-tain people were guaranteeing Wright's expenses. Willi respect to Nit-hulls. Air T. Fletcher. member of tlie Management Committee, states that when NieholL’ application for a place in the ollicial party came before the Xew Zealand Union, he moved that it he turned down, on i’o. grnnnil that he was being sent Hume I v public subscription. The (|i:e-t ieli was r:> ; - a = to whether Xuholls had ever aitue.lly received it. and t h-■ motion was withdrawn until XiehiiUs had appeared before the Cummitee. Xieholls duly appeared and gave his word of honour that he had not received any preseuiation. that he knew nothing of it. and that he would not accept any. Only when he gave these a-suram-es was *eallowed to go. and then the manager was instructed that under no cireum-slan.-es was he f> l.e allowed to play. DAIRY CONTROL HOARD.

Tlie Dairy I’rudm-e Control Hoard held a me»-iiug here la.-t week, and it wa . stated that the Hoard was considering the a pil'd n i men I of a repre-

sentative. prel errahl.v a rel l igeral ing engineer. for the purg-a-c of iuspi-.-l ing -hip'- holds, aa t chine the t einpcrui urn nl produce. sito-arvising loading and ipialily el lirodm-e on delivery at the ship's side, and giving some attention to handling gem'rallv. It i- staled that the shipping companies have alv,iivs keen willing 1" give faeihti ■- '* i inspect ion and stipervisi m in this way. It must, he vonfes-ed tied lids Hoard is proceeding on s Hinder lines than did the Meat Control Hoard and for that roas- 1 .: is likely to achieve letter re-

sults. ' Tlie Meal Hoard has sealed down into a utiiet iuollensive orgauisait.ii. probably because them i- nothing fur it to do and il would he unwise t" direct aftention to thai. Ihe weekly :*ablei 1 i|U'lali-uis which are not of as much value as the market reports ieeeived hy private firms, are sent in the papers, and -nine belated returns irnm the Argentine are also sent in lor publication"! The Dairy Control Hoard appears 1„ ha ve about the same appmi iation in re-pect to stati-lics as toe Meat Hoard and I hat i- really nil. '1 he Dairy Hoard furnish -I s >me figure, la -.

Week’. These related to the exports of hotter. I aeon an l egg- from Denmark lo (iivat Rriliin in Hl-iC I lies.• figure, v ere avadalHi' in *'--- D'minion lasi |.'elu nary and i odd have been ohtaiii"d I'l-oiii the Rriti.-h I rade ( otiiniis-inner.

The Hoard al-o . iipnlie- figures oi' New Zealand's expert'- of huiter and idler e for live monlh- to May Hist. last. Ire import- o| huiter into i ne t uited Kingdom for the half year were published -nine lime ago. Ihi s totalled : a - against 2.*-'>M2"c "I. in l!:c in -I hdf ol lll'JH. I ■ i' I • ' hoped that ihe Dairy Hi,aril will d.wlep a heller apprt ciaiioa el uo-l '-dale sloli tie-. AY AT HR HI HU CDX'TI! U T. The Spiral and I•: -1.-kar Si ' I 'bp ' t'ompany I. id. secured the \\ elliugloii (it -,- c eun il's mt raei for Urn supply if pipes, t• -i• s and lend- l'*r the laying I f'. mile- ~f v.aler main-. The eon 1 raei |;rii-i' i- £1. ,, .:i.!>.n. The steel illates |.;ck-h:trs v ill lv imported, hul '.hire- ; of the work is to he done in New Zealand. The main- are h lie “I inches.

thi-e will be made at a factory i„,.\ in conn-." el' civt ion at Melling. in the | ill! I Valley. Tl'.c process nf mauufaelui" is -aid t" he -imple. A pint . ~f steel is I eaten i 1 it i a cylinder, the i-ilg"- are hurled mi. > lliat the |e,l -har running il'ee lull length "I the i-vli ud"!' iiuiv slide in helweell there

edge- l" Inrm dovetail jiinl.-. the inleriml and external Mange- of that har are pressed hard against the pipe edgetu make the long ilovmnil perleet. Ile ~Piles .-ne 2kft. long. oil. lo (ill. wide.

~ lain, in tliirkne- - and weigh nearly a lon. Thi- |ir:vt ieally means the c-lah-I i-. linn'll I oi a new imlu-try in AYellin'.'liui and ah ml s"! or Ik! ni"U will lind employmmil at the la-iorv. Someiinic ago the < :lv Council ordered a new D'eiieh illUer from l!ie United States, ami the machine i- exoceted to anive in the eonr-e of a «cck or so. 1 hinu'eliiue i- to do the irenrliiug work lollin' pipes to be laid in. and is expected to provide tren.chc, fa-tvr than the f ; „.j try cau fill tl'.eni with pipes.