WELLINGTON NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 January 1925, Page 4

WELLINGTON NOTES.

RESTRICTED WOOL' OFFERINGS. (Special to “Guardian”.) Tlio Wool Commit to-;, in restricting the* offerings n!’ wool at the January sales to ) Ij.uOO hales lias failed to please all sections, hut that was anticipated. All the same the limits fixed hv the Committee has caused considerable inconvenience and a good deal of trouble to the brokers. Wellington’s limit was liked at 2A.000 hales and while- originally it- was intended to chxse the catalogues <Ol .January o. actually the catalogues were dosed on Dec. ““ml. or a fortnight earlier, because on that date there were o\ei no.ooo hales in store. The position of the brokers i*- an unenviable one. for

apart from the surplus in store on Dec. “■Jad., wool lias Ikwu coining in very lYeelv ever since and tin* consignees no doubt hope that some of their wool will lie offered this mouth. The brokers are powerless in the matter. There is the limit of 2’i.ftOO hales beyond whidi they cannot .go. They must exclude the wools of some growers, who will lialil--I|y l.e disnppoinled and will “go’ for fhe brokers as though they were to blame. The brokers are tiding "it’ l extreme fairness, and are listing the dips in accordance with their arrival in store that, is “first come lirsl sort - ( ~1.” It is sheer lolly on the 1 art of the growers to censure the brokers or H„. Wool Committee for these people are slinking the interests <.f the trade and in allotting ThJ.OOO hales for the January sales they have been rather generous. To increase the tillering would he suicidal for it would have n effect. on values. Envers have to find a great deal more money now to lift a given quantity of wool than was the case a year or two ago. and finance is becoming a difficult matter, for it is not wool alone that is expensive, but oilier much-wanted commodities also and the demands for credit are very great. The time has come when the question of extending the sales beyond March must be considered. It is unwise to endeavour to market the clip in the short space of four months, for very little importance can he attached to the November sales. It may he necessary next season to hold a series „f sales in April, which would prevent excessive offerings in January and February. N.X. FASCIST! SFGG ESTED. A general election is to be bold towards the close of the current year and as registration is compulsory the Registrar of Electors is taking the neecssary steps to give eflect to the Act. There will not he much trouble about registering the electors, hut people bote are concerned about the conduct of political meetings during the campaign. East election there was much rowdyism, and there is no doubt that this was to a, vcr.v large extent Paganised. British fair play was abandoned and some candidates scarcely got an opportunity to make a speech, especially in tbe more important City halls. How to ensure a fair and orderly hearing for all candidates irrespective of party is being considered to this extent, that people are beginning to think and suggest that something should he dune. There is the example of the British T-ns. eisti, the members of which at the general election in October last did effective work in keeping tbe organised disturbers of political meetings in order. There are men in New Zealand who are taking instructions from the rogues of Moscow, and it is believed that the shipping trouble in Australia is being engineered and financed Irom RussiaT The plague will spread to New Zealand and it wend be wise to have the means of dealing with it. A body 1 i!-. ■ the British Fn.scMj offers the best solution. INFANTILE PABVi.YSIS. This scourge is rather rile in Wellington. Ibe notifications lasi week running in In 17 as compared with ; ' 1,1 (he previous week. Ihe a uthoi ii b s p,.|. ,d , • I,.** had I mi.se well ,1, hand and till < laim appear- to luve Keen ha-ed on the far I that victims and contacts were isolated at I’etune where the disease was first noted. U soon spread to the neighbouring borough of Eastbourne where last week there were live fresh cases. Instead „f trying to calm the fears of pareuls t;,e Health Department should have made tin* nest of those fears and secured greater attention from the parents. When iheir fears were allayed the parent- took their children the

seaside and indulged them in pienn-s and other forms of outdoor pleasures just where they are most likely to come ju contact, with other children, and so the infection has spread. Now it i> .stated that the surest way of avoiding infection is to keep the children away from all public resorts. Now that the burse has gone the stable door is to be locked. The disease is described as serious for it takes a 2A per cent toll of mortality and another 2A per <ent become more or less crippled.