DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 September 1924, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. CLASS R( (TILES. AUCKLAND, September !). Alatteis pertaining to the protection wlii'h it is proposed .should he given to the glass bottle industry in the Dominion were contained in u statement submitted to the Ceneral Committee of the' Auckland Provincial Industrial Association hy the secretary, Air .1. Findlay. The statement set out that the works at Penrose employed eighty men. of win,in .sixty-five were Xew Zealanders and the rest experts imported to train the workers. The wages hill a mounted to CoS;) a Week. If a lea-

,suable prole; live duty were yranted. another furnace would he installed, thus providing work for another ciyhty men while, if a duty were impo-.ed on all classes of "lass bottles, jars, etc., the plant would he extended to provide work for from 330 to 309 men. Tlm indirect I enelit to otk.er industries involved in production of the materials used together with coal and coke was also mentioned, and comparison made' between tlie cost of wages and niaierials in England and New Zealand. it was stated that yhd.es and chimneys for lamps and lanterns weie not manufactured in Xcw Zealand, and if the duty on these and | crimps Chinuuare ueie cut out and transferred Ci yhtss bottles, jars. etc.. more

work would lie provided !• >i-;iIly, and, as the Peiirr.se e.ilii] any had yivcii a guarantee not to increase prices in the event of a duty briny imposed, the elimination of the duly on llie articles mentioned Would help to redme the i os.t of liviny. The statement, which was prepared for distiibutiau to other ass:.ciations and members of Pal liameiit, was approved. ‘■TA I l.t )I!-AI AI) E" DM FIX’ITT OX. WEI.I.EXCTOX. Sef temher 9. A coofeieoce of rep resell ta l i ves id diH’erent branches of the tailoring trades in rrlrreiicc to ilie i|Ueslioii of tailor-made and faetory-uiade clothes was held to-da\. The meeting was convened hy the i.alaiur I !epart ment. Air Rowley. s.ecretaiy of the Department. presided, lie submitted proposed reyiilations for discussion.

Tlie i'ollnn ioy stigge-Leil a mciul,licit Is were approved: “Any person who sells as tailor-made a yarnient that is not tailor-made conililils an offence. Any |ei'son who soils or nyrrr.-, to sell or oilers hy ad v ert isenn ■o t or otherwise to sell a< laihe-nmde a yarineot any part of which i- made hy a |ci.soii not wholly engaged in the inakioy of tailormad" garments commits an offenee.”

A proposal that the follow iny new provision To made, “A .yarment shall not lie deserihrd as hand-made or as tailored miles-, ii is entirely made by hand.'' was. on the master tailors' re- ■ 11 n'.st. held over to give them all ojiporI unity fin- fui'lher eonsideiiny liie ipiestiiai. A not her clause yiviny the meaning of tailor-nmih' gnrnioul s wa- also deferred to enable the mailer tailors lo c oiler. P. AND T. AI EX. Al ASTKIITOX. Sept, in At a well attended iiiectiny of the Wairarapa section of the Post and Teleyraph Ollicers' Assoeialion. held this cveniny, the following resolution wa . unauii• i 'l11 K eti i i— l l ; Thai Ihi - ei in imii I.■ t>-.l' i " col an.| I .i; ■ 111 1 Ihe

pie mu ill-In,all l" a- rrrculli used 111 the I'usl master (teiiera I in Ihe lions,' ul I* e preseii ta t i v»-s when relerliny til the service. We emphatically declare that this imputation is all injustice. in that it sliytnalises a section of the community which is rend,-liny: e,illscii-ut imis and ellieienl .service to the eiiunlry. AUu, that this section has even cenlideUeo in its Kxrt-u 1 iv(*. and wholeheartedly apprmes and ritdorsi's the policy adopled by the Kxei ntive t,i obtain stn-li a in-t and rcasnnahle l eela s.-iiica l ion as would permit of our bavin", a decent standard of Iiv111y."

PKKPIXG TOM" (iAOI.I-.H. Dl XK.m.X. Sunt. In

In the City Police Court to-day, |.count'd (lenient. a one-armed man, was sen ten, ed to one month’s hard labour lor 1.-iny found oil I lie private premises ut Ceorye Mnrkby, without lawlnl ,-XrUse. Alter heariny; evidence, Mr IkirthnlUinew, 5.. M., said that the accused was evidently not on the premises for llnUt so In- must lu- snmelhiny; in the nature ul a pervert ur a "P"epiny Tutu.” I IOsiI'ITAI. PATIKXTN CI.AIM. lIAMI I.TOX. Sept. Id At tlie Supreme Cnitrl. Ilaunali AfeKeti/.ie, a married wnmali, claimed plOtli) damages from the Waikato Hospital Piiianl fur alley,-d m-yliycm c. Plaintilf alley.,-,I that she was burned l,v a hut water buttle while a patient in the hospital. Alter inn,-It evidence had been tan,-n. the parties conferred and arrived at ;l M-t tl,-incut. Plaint ill' withdrew thalleyatinns of tu-idiyemv ayainst the | ; .nard or its servants. KAII.M SCI lOt M-S. W-KI.I.INMTON'. S,-;t. Id. 'the Minister of Agriculture has vnitten til the X.-w Zealand l-’armer.s’ l’nj,,n s( : ,tiny it is the intention of the Government to establish additional farm schools as soon as money 1 <-. nines available, hat that it is impossible to

make any extension at present