LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 October 1925, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

The annual meeting of the Hokitika Cricket Club will be held on Wednesday. Oct. 14th. at 8 p.tn.

The gross tonnage of goods trails, ported front the West to the East Coast via the Otira Tunnel during September was 20.359 tons, over 5700 tons less than for August. 1925, but an increase on the gross tonnage carried in September, 1923 (18.151 tons), and September, 1024 (28,797 tons). The Imperial Press delegates, in the course of their visit to Queensland, traversed great areas of sugar-cane fields in the Bundaberg district, and sdw the cutting of the cane and its subsequent treatment at a great mill. “I have hitherto,” writes Sir George Fenwick to the “Otago Daily Times,” in an account of the visit, “been under the impression that the heavy work of cutting the cane—and cane is hardly the word to describe correctly the solid stalks of a couple of inches in thickness and nine feet in height—under a tropical sun was not an employment suited to white labour, but as the result of a talk with one of the cutter? and with other men of the district, 1 am quite satisfied T was wrong in my opinion. The men cut under a piece work arrangement, and earn 30s a day. The determination to keep this continent a ‘White Australia’ is practically universal, and it may he taken that black labour will never again be allowed in the sugar-cane fields or in any of the Australian industries.”