DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 August 1924, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS.

BY TELEGRAPH —I’UESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. WOAIKN I'EAfl I MILS. WELLINGTON. Aug. ID A mass meeting of women teachers was held in-day to protest against the ilillereiiuatiim between the salaries of men anti women. A resolution protesting against, the situation created liv -tit'll schemes, in that they give rise to great discontent, and that any schemes s' Id he without f|ltestiou, ju>t, fair mill equitable to all set lions, was carried unanimously.

It was stilted that the principle ol | differentiation was grossly unfair t«j women teachers, anti contrary to grail-j ing on oiTieioiicy and w hile salaries | | were based on this scheme, there was j I grave discontent ami uure.-t among the women of the teaching profession. | It was also decided to urge the Ex-j ecutive of tlm Institute to demand, in, the meantime, a return to the I !>-h , scale of salaries. AAI EIH'-'AN INDI'STUY. SEItlOl'S POSITION AHEAD. AI'CK LAND, A eg. 18 The somewhat peculiar and serious position fitting American mnnufacl urers as it result of the adjustment oT world affairs now taking place was referred to by an Australian financier who arrived from Vancouver by Iho Niagara. This authority -aid thill the position in tlm I'nited States was a gootl deal more serious than was generally appreciated outside that country, lor the reason that industry was experiencing a species of slump. This was noticed in the Eastern Stall’s, whine nv.uy oT the factories were working only about i.iie-tbird time, and unemployment was fairly general. lie explained that before the war American industry took tare of its heavy expenses, and particularly overhead, by the adoption oT mass production, thus greatly inereas--1 ing lhe output and export, but now that purchasing countries were requiring less anil less of the I'nited States and orders were tailing till’, manufacturers were faced with the problem of adjusting their overhead to reduced 1 output. The position, moreover, was | peculiar, because by the adoption ol 'l ma.-- pr.idutiiou the Americans ha! ’ been able lo send va-! ipianl ilit's of 1 t imin'.alii i'-s abroad, receiving ill fetin' i a vc rv large percentage ol tilt* world's gold which wa- now* ol no Use 1 to them. Again, bv reason iT the ta ri If walls t Ita L they had put up. they 'j had prevented purchasing couulrics 1 from making payments in I,iml. and this liar ret I stieli t ommoditics as New Zealand ami Australian Imt ter . Thus tho d"im"!'l for Afieri'.-an mm hii***ry ami ei her m.tmil'.it t miwa- lading olf and so allot ling industry that il te.’isl read on the prosperity and putehasing power of the American pithin'. HADING DAYLIGHT CHIMES. AI ( KI.AND. Aug. Id Hurglai.s continue i<, be active in the city ami suburb-. |.a-i night the office of the Taranaki Sawmill Coy at Newmarket was entered, and an attempt was matle to blow open the safe The loth- held, however, and the task was abandoned. The oMirc was iitiisaeketl. Imt nothing of value was tak-l I A hatcher's shop in the vicinity was alsi mi left 1 1, but no money was oil the premise-. During the week-end. a draper's shep iii King'laml was entered, and hoy-* soils and rails were stolen. (In Saturday afternoon, during the nrcupanls* absence, a hou-t at Epsom was ransacked, tloihing and jewellery being taken. The must daring robbery was perpetrated in Shortland Street, shortly alter “..Tl p.m.. when a man snatched a bank slip bonk, i i.nlaiiung Loll,, from a young woman who was taking the money to the hank. 'I here were L2O in notes, and L’.'lll ill ehet|Ut*s ill the hoi k, whieh the woman la typist employed in the city) carried apparently under her aim. When she It’ll a lug under her arm, she turned, ami she saw a young man running away, and though passers-by gave chase, tile thief c'lapcd.