THE RIGHT TO WORK.

Te Puke Times, Volume II, Issue II, 9 December 1913, Page 2

THE RIGHT TO WORK.

Mr McCombs, the Labour candidate for Lyttelton, believes that any man who is not a unionist should be prohibited from working. Speaking at Woolston last week, ho is reported to have said : " They had to choose between preference to unionists and preference to non-unionists. But the Social Democratic Party believed in every man being a unionist or not having the right to work.'' In other words a man must not use the arms and strength that God has given him to obtain a livelihood for himself and family unless he is duly branded and ticketed by a certain union. Next, please.

Miss Eiltien Ward, only daughter of Sir Joseph and Lady Ward, was married to Mr B. B. Wood,

of Christchurch, on Thursday last, at the Basilica, Wellington. Winners of prizes at the recent flower show are notified that prize money will be paid out at th 9 Mission Hall, next Saturday .afternoon, December 13. Last week a poll of ratepayers at Patea was taken in connection with the raising of a loan of £8000 for water and £6000 for drainage for the town.' The poll resulted in favor of the proposal by 125 votes, the voting being For 161, against 36, informal 3. Messrs Dalgety and Co. now have their fresh stock in store of Garton's Superlative and Incomparable Swede, and clients can be assured of having their orders executed at once. Farmers requiring these seeds would do well to place their orders without delay as there is a very large demand. The Commissioner of Crown Lands, notifies that the undermentioned lands will be submitted for sale by public auction for cash at the Courthouse, Tauranga, on Thursday, January 15th, at 11 a.m 73 sections, Moturiki Town (near Mt. Maunganui), generally one rood each, upset price from £25 to £50 per lot; section 182, Waimana parish, 88 acres, upset price £110. A number of the Wellington waterside workers have walked to the Wairarapa during the last week or two and have secured employment on various stations as general farm hands. ' 'If our jobs are taken on the wharf by men from the country, we'll find work on the farm?, and it won't be long before we'll have a farm laborers union going," remarked one of them. A recent arrival from the Old Country was employed on a Masterton firm to do milking. He knew all about the business, for he had been reared on a cow-farm somewhere in the neighborhood of St. Paul's Cathedral. He was handed a rope and told to leg-rope . the cow, which had been bailed up for him. He tied the rope tigh ly round both hind legs of the animal, and then said, "I

'aven't another rope, so l ean'

fix up the front legs." He knows better now. . The Supreme Court it Wanganui was occupied for two days last week in the hearing of the re-trial of the,compensation case Broad v. the King; in which Mrs W. E.t Broad claimed £2000 as the result of a collision between a motor-cycle, which her husband, was riding, and a train, at a level crossing at Marton in April last, whereby her husband was killed. No new facts were disclosed in the evidence. The jury awarded £2000 damages with costs.

A special series of postage stamps has been issued to commemorate the Auckland Exhibition. The series consists of ordinary stamps of the denominations of id, id, 3d, and 6d, overprinted. "Auckland Exhibition." The stamps can be purchased only at the Exhibition, and not more than 5s worth will be sold to any one person at any one time. The Commonwealth of Australia has agreed to recognise these overprinted stamps as valid for postage for three months from the Ist December. The stamps will not be valid for postage to other places beyond New Zealand. It was in the commercial room, and the talk turned to hens. ''Talking of hens," remarked the American, "reminds me of an old hen my dad once had on the farm out Dakota. She would hatch out anything, from a tennis ball to a lemon. Why one day she sat on a piece of ice and hatched out two quarts of hot water." "That doesn't come up to a club-footed hen- my old mother once had," said the Irishman. "They had been feeding her by mistake on sawdust instead of oatmeal. Well, sor, she laid twelve eggs and sat on them, and when they hatched, begorra, eleven of the chickens had wooden legs, and the twelfth was a woodpecker!" The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company has received a cable from its London office advising the company will hold its annual meeting on December 18th. After writing: off bad debts and customary replacements, also writing £20,000 off premises, and providing a further £5000 towards the Staff Benevolent Fund, and carrying £20,000 to reserves from profits, making a total of £276,878, the Directors recommend payment of a dividend of 5 per cent, per annum on cumulative shares, half of which was paid in July last; a dividend of 5 per cent, on ordinary shares and instalments of call under the scheme, and that £14,238 18s be carried forward.

The amount paid out by,the Kaupdkonui Co-operative Dair> Company to suppliers _ for the month of October was £15,019 Os 3d. This is stated to be the largest amount ever, paid out by . Q the Company for October.

In a new announcement to-day, Messrs R. King and Co. , schedule a list of goods and articles suitable for presents for the forthcoming festive season Intending purchasers should call and inspect the articles arranged for sale.

It is scarcely necessary to remind our readers of the Grand , Concert to be held in McDowell's Hall on Wednesday evening, in aid of the cottage hospital fund. . The entertainment has already been given sufficient publicity to ensure a large attendance; , Reserved seats can be booked at Mr Hoyte's. Mr T. E. Palmer,' Chairman of the Town Board, • will preside.' . -■ - The 'pictures shown by the t Electric Pictures this week were , up to the usual standard, and the hall was well-filled on each occa- • sion. ''A Sister's Ordeal," was , a 3000 ft. film of a Wild West ; drama, depicting miraculous es- ' capes and daring feats that are generally- associated with this *. class of picture. " Making bril- , - liant signs* was a very instructive picture illustrating [the methods employed in the manufacture of brass and glass letters.

Mr W. R. Blow, tourist agent at Rotorua, has received notice of his appointment to the position of New Zealand Government: Tourist agent at Sydney, and is also to act as Government trade and commerce agent in that eityjj Mr W. Hill will relieve Mr Blow, who leaves at an early date. ( Mr £ x Blow has occupied the position J of tourist agent iin Rotorua for J. six years, having been transfer; red from Auckland. Prior to that date he was tourist agent • 7 in Auckland, and also in Invercargill, Christchurch, and Wellington.

At a recent meeting of. the' Hastings Borough Council, & letter was received from the Audi-tor-General, asking why Councillor Wade, who ' is, a plumber, ; should not be disqualified from ' acting on the Council, he having done sanitary work and received , payments totalling '£267,- advanced by the Council to applicants for loans for house connections withlthe sewer.- The Mayor stated that the Borough solicitor and Mr Martin (Municipal solicitor) held that no breach of the Municipal Corporation-Act, 1908, had occurred, and that Cr Wade was perfectly in order in undertaking and receiving payment for the work. The Council resolved to ask Mr Wade to continue his duties as Councillors ..

When the case of Mary Alice Woollass v. William Woolass, in which the complainant applied for a separation and maintenance order on the ground of failure to provide adequate support and other grounds, was called at the Magistrate's Court, Hamilton, Mr C. L. MacDiarmid, who appeared for the defendant, stated that his cliept was anxious for a separation, but |Mr Luxford pointed out that his Worship could not make one unless he was satisfied the allegations were correct. With this Mr Rawson agreed, but stated that if Mr MacDiarmid would agree to a separation on the grounds of failure to provide maintenance he would make the order. Mr Luxfor'd, after conferring with his client, objected, as they wished allfthree allegations agreed to. Mr Rawson considered that the complainant was showing_a most vindictive spirit, and adjourned the case until after lunch. When the court resumed it was- stated that an agreement had been arrived at as suggested by Mr Rawson, and he made an order on these lines for maintenance at £1 per week, with £3 arrears. '