SOME NEWS NOTES.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 158, 2 January 1914, Page 4

SOME NEWS NOTES.

«yu : "This is an age rf talking. a ercst deal of unnecessary taIK too, rc- j marked his Excellency the Govrrnor j in addressing the btys cf Wellington | Colleece recently. "Do rot," he ; added, "apeak fcr sneaking'* sake, j It is an anruyance ti your fellows and a bad thing for yourself. I j have often been chaffed about the brevity of my speeches. One time j I spoke only nine I had j nothing more t) say, and 1 did not | say any more, ar,d that :s why I sm rot goiric to say any more j now!" In mere than one quarter the j lessen taught by the late strike j has been instructive. It has, a j Wellington reporter was informed, | been found that the Arbitration 1 worker tskes about half the time to 1 Co ce r tain work that vras taken by \ eld hand'. This was net noticea! Is j so much during the first week, a3 j the men were not used to the work, ■ but as soon as they got inta the knack of shifting and stacking cargo it at once became apparent that the old waterside wo:ker did not strain himself to any extent. Master carters, who were compelled to drive their cwn vehicles during the long hold-up, have also come to the conclusion that the old drivers, with some exceptions, of course, had their own idea as to what was a fair day's work. Strong opposition to the syndicalistic tactics displayed in the New Zealand strike was expressed at a meeting of the Independent Workers' Industrial Council* held on 18th D?cember at Melbourne, and the following resolution was passed: "That this Council of Victorian Unionists, representing organised workers unaffiliated with the Syndicalistic and Socialistic Trades Hall Council, sends its heartiest gxeetir.gs to the Arbitration Unionists of New Zealand who have been fighting such a plucky tight against the syndicalistic and revolutiorary unionists for the right to work and the right <•« organise; and, further, we view with pleasure the determined attitude against this extreme section being taken by sevcrat Labour politicians and union leaders in the Dominion." A new railway by-law, prohibiting the throwing of missiles, has been gazetted, It provides (a) "No person shall throw or cause to be thrown from any carriage or other vehicl? upon any railway or on ;iny part thereof, any glass, dirt, stone, or other missile, or any tilth, dirt, rubbish, or any matter of a similar nature, (b) Any person who shall commit a braach of the foregoing by law, or shall do any act which by such by-law is directed not to be done by him, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £lO for each such breach or the doing of each such act. (c) If any such parson is employed on or about the railway, and the by-law relates to his conduct, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £1 for each breach of act respectively."' "Australia not only wants immigrants of the right sort from the Mother Country," said Sir George Keid at Newcastle, New South Wales, "but also men with capital ar.d enterprise. If.'' he went on, "we shouli depend upon our own capital and our own enterprise for i the task of making this continent i what it ought to be, it would fail. If we depended on tha increase of births and deaths we might dream about a nation, but we would be 100 years in getting to anything like our first stage of advancement.'' Although the humaniiy of the nations j was improving, and good feeling was also making headway, they must not forget there never was a time in the history of tfce world when arbitrary power had such tremendous resources, whether for defence or offence. The people of to-day were living really on the brink of a volcano. The only safetv he could think of waa that the nations were I spending so much in getting ready I for war that they could net ali'ord the real article,