Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3863, 27 October 1928, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Arrangements are being made at one of the local mills to try out a patent process for bleaching fibre. We are informed that the patentee is a member of the. fair sex.

Summing up the general political situation, Mr. J. iCoull, chairman of the meeting addressed by the Reform candidate, Mr. N. J., Lewis, at: the Wanganui Opera House, said that in some respects it was a case of “dog eat dog.” “The Labour dog,” he added, “is getting fat at the expense of the Liberal forces, but not at the expense of the Reform Party.” (Applause).

“It is the most beautiful country I have ever visited,” said Sir John Salmond, British Air-Marshal, prior to lejiving Auckland. “Your climate is wonderful and your scenery beautifully varied. I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed my short, stay in Rotorua. Some day I hope to return to New Zealand on a visit which will allow me to devote more time to pleasure than this visit lias done.”

Commenting at his meeting at St. Kilda on Mr. 11. E. Holland’s virtuous indignation concerning the Prime Minister’s action in the matter of pairing Mr. Nosworthy on the Licensing Bill, Mr. Charles Todd, Reform candidate for Dunedin South, said: —“I am afraid it is only one of Mr. Holland’s ways of making- political capital out of everything, just as lie did when he supported Mr. Nelson (an admitted capitalist) in his Samoan agitation. I say this because on every trial of strength between wet and dry, the Leader of the Opposition followed the .other leaders, Messrs Coates and Forbes and Sir Joseph Ward, into the lobby. So that Mr. Holland should not throw stones; they’re all wet.”

“In cases where the employers put their cards on the table and give the workers’ representatives proof that the conditions of employment in an industry urgently require remodelling to enable competition to be met, the latter should be prepared to accept the responsibility of making the necessary adjustments,” states the annual report of the Employers’ Federation. “At present there has been little, if any, evidence of a willingness on the part of the unions to accept this responsibility; they- almost invariably transfer it to the Arbitration Court and the latter adheres strictly to precedent and re-enacts over and over again conditions which may be ruinous to the, industry in question.”