Dairy Factory Secretaries.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1938, Page 4

Dairy Factory Secretaries.

Negotiations between representatives of the dairy factory companies in Southland and secretaries for a new agreement on the salary scale have been in progress for several months. Several of’ the companies, however, have expressed a fear that an increase in the scale is likely to add to the costs in the industry, and the dairy committee of the Southland provincial executive of the Farmers’ Union has brought forward a proposal that the executive investigate the possibility of establishing a co-operative organisation to handle all the secretarial, work of the industry in the province. It is expected that a conference will be called to discuss this proposal. Sharehawkers. “The sharehawker still carries on his objectionable calling in New Zealand,” said the chairman (Mr Harman Reeves) at the annual meeting of the Dunedin Stock Exchange. “He is now adopting the method of offering shares in Australian companies in exchange for shares in New Zealand companies. This must lend itself to the unloading of doubtful securities. In England and also New South Wales the laws already in existence are to be tightened up in an attempt to safeguard further the uninitiated investing public. The law in this Dominion also requires amendment. I would again recommend intending investors to seek the advice of their banker or a member of the Stock Exchange before parting with their money or signing any papers when reputedly attractive investments are brought to their notice.”

A Risky Business.

Though there will always be the motorist who will give a pedestrian a lift in an emergency, the majority of car drivers are far too sensible of the damages they may have to pay in the case of injury to the fortuitously acquired passenger to make the granting of free rides a habit. The Wellington Automobile Association, in fact, advises its members not to do so. The chairman of the association’s executive (Mr E. A. Batt) said: “We recommend our members, on the ground of the liability which may be incurred, not to take the risk.” Mr Batt spoke of the case in which a person was lent a horse to ride without being warned that it might kick. The horse did kick the person who borrowed the horse, and he was awarded damages. There were instances where persons merely witnessing motor accidents had secured damages because of the effects upon them, and in one such ease abroad the defence that it was not necessary for the woman to look at the accident, was of no avail. New Zealand Tobacco. A visitor to the Royal Victoria Dock. London, recently would have been surprised at the sight of two half-ton .hogsheads of - New Zealand tobacco being delivered from a warehouse into a lorry for distribution to factories. Small experimental packages have in the past been received from Australia and New Zealand, but these deliveries were among the earliest commercial shipments of tobacco from New Zealand. For the first time more than one half of the stock of tobacco held at the present time in bond at the Port of London Authority dock warehouses is of Empire origin. Empire growers have made consistent efforts to improve the.quality of the leaf and from a small beginning the percentage of Empire tobacco has steadily expanded. Regular supplies are received from Africa, Borneo, Burma. Canada, Cyprus, India, and Jamaica. Australia and New Zealand are also represented by occasional shipments.