Compensation for Strikes.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 January 1939, Page 4

Compensation for Strikes.

A resolution was carried at a recent meeting of the Auckland provincial executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union asking the Government to investigate all strikes. The resolution urged further that the party responsible should be compelled to pay compensation for resulting losses.

A Possible Drawback.

Ono possible drawback to a suggested plan to control the spread of porina and grass grub caused amusement at a meeting of the Canterbury provincial executive of the New Zealand Farmers' Union. The suggestion had been made that the pests should be kept down by fire, but a scientist to whom the idea had been referred, said that if fires were lit they might attract even more moths and pests, which would not be killed —which would rather detract from the success of the plan. Members agreed that it might, and expressed pleasure that a special officer was to be posted in Canterbury this year to deal with the pest.

Speed of Air Travel. “My first trip to England was made in 1905, as doctor on board the steamer Banffshire, and the trip from Port Chalmers to London took 93 days; last year I flew, and was only 121 days getting from Auckland to Southampton,’’ said Mr W. A. Fairclough. Auckland surgeon, who returned by the Niagara yesterday after visiting England and the Continent. Mr Fairclough said there was no night flying on the Empire route, and passengers had a good opportunity of seeing the calling places. Business in Australia.

The opinion that a slackening is evident in some business quarters in Australia was expressed on Monday by Mr E. P. Yaldwyn, a former chairman of the Associated Banks of New Zealand, when he returned to Auckland Dy the Monterey from a holiday visit to the Commonwealth. He said he had gained this impression in both Sydney and Melbourne, more particularly in the latter case, although a good pastoral season would no doubt set things right again.