SALVATION ARMY FISHERY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2814, 19 February 1908, Page 14

SALVATION ARMY FISHERY.

PROTEST BY LABOUR. AUCKLAND, February 6. When the Salvation Army authorities established a home for inebriates on Bell's Island it was considered that one source of revenue might be the sale of-fish caught by the inmates. The local fishermen are taking exception to this, and the matter was mentioned at a meeting of the Traded and Labour Council. The council resolved to protest. Mr Spratt of the Fish Curers' Union, led the way by remarking that he bad heard it stated that the Salvation Army,-authori-ties were getting a number of boats for the men, and it wa6 intended that they should! catch fish which should be xured at the island and then submitted for sale. H« had heard that £20 per month had been offered a man to instruct tho inebriate* in ihe method of fish-curin«. Although it would affect his own trade, he did not mention th© matter because of that, but when employers had euoh a high rate ot wages to pay he thought some protest should be made against euch a state of affairs that meant the Salvation Army would be competing with private employers, who were bound by the Arbitration Court award*. Two other delegates spoke in a similar strain, and it was r«oW_ to *>«>*<?** against the Army being allowed to^ compete on unequal terms with pnwta«n; plovers, and to send a copy of the resolution to the Minister of I*bow. FAHEWEI L TO BET. C. H. LAWS. The Rev. O. H. Laws, who has been pastor of Trinity Methodist Church for r number of years, was formally farewelled by a large number of his congregation in the Church Hall, Moray place, on the 12th. The proceedings took the form of a social gathering, interspersed wita brief addresses and! concert items by church friends, and the .hall was tastefully decorated with evergreens and flowers. Mr E. Rosevear, who presided, presented Mr Laws on behalf of church friends, with 8, purse of sovereigns, to be expended .during his holiday tour. Addresses were delivered by Messrs W. Lewisham, P. Williams, W. H. Duke, and the Rev. R. H. Wyhe, eulogising the work done by Mr Laws, that gentleman suitably responding- , During the evening solos were contributed by Miss Aokroyd and Mr E. Lawn, . a recitation by Miss Poole, and a pianoforte solo by Mist lies. Refreshment* were served , and the proceedings at th* finish took the form of a conversazione. H jhe chairman, during a,n interval, wiahe^ goodbye to Mr and Mrs 0. Eastabrook, members of the church, who proceed to JJngland is the cfturae of a fe_w ffieel*.