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Hokitika Guardian, 26 June 1931, Page 5

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From General Headquarters has been issued a little book of instructions foi the training of the new Volunteer Defence Force. It defines the scope of the annual training to be carried, out, We mvhodk ft bWlo^

it into execution, and also -.detmleu iustructieu for the training of tli° vurtuu-s mills uucl services, Rarticulftl emphasis is laid on the importance ot carefully graduated training programmes in which drill is reduced to a minimum and field work takes precedence. Since the time available for i n ■; is limited, it has been decided that for the training year 1931-193-' „x. units snail concentrate on carrying out exercises, ;hoth theoretical and practical, in Advanced Guards.

“hi making the 1922 Order for the general reduction in wages, the Court had very largely to take" into consideration the cost of living,” said Mr Justice Eraser in the Arbitration Court at Christchurch, when the application of the Lyttelton tally clerks for exclusion from the terms of the recent General Order imposing the 10 per cent reduction in wages was being heard. “In making the 1931 Order however, the cost of living was only one of a number of factors, the general state of industry and commerc; being the determining ones. However, the grounds for exemption are the same to-day as they were in 1922. namely, exceptional circumstances.”

Influenced by the dismal,weather experienced in Christchurch, buyers took as little time as possible over the fat stock sales at the Metropolitan Markdt at Addington on Wednesday. Values in the principal sections declined. Fat cattle were' yarded in larger numbers than they were las. week, and met a dragging sale. There were consignments forward from the North Island and from Southland, and a very fine line, was entered from Halswell. Values for all classes were lower. There was a substantial reduction in the total of fat, lambs entered and the new and lower./-scheduk was fully reflected Jn the prices paid values declining by a shilling a head all round. In the fat sheep pens there was a smaller entry, very much smaller than the phenomena, vardings of the previous two weeks. A new schedule influenced the sale ewes declining slightly and wethers rising a little in price. Vealers were' scarce, and prices for them rose from five to seven shillings a head. Fat pigs were also scarce at the beginning of the sale, when high prices were paid.. Later in the sale the entry was increased, and values fell again.

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