Shop Assistants’ Union.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 November 1939, Page 4

Shop Assistants’ Union.

A meeting of the Masterton branch of the Shop Assistants’ Union was held recently to consider a proposal to invest certain funds of the Union in a company for the establishment of a Labour daily newspaper. It was decided that no action be taken meanwhile and the matter- was left in abeyance. Local Government Bill.

An indication that the outbreak of war had deferred the reintroduction in Parliament of the Local Government (Amalgamation Schemes) Bill, was given by the Minister of Internal Affairs Mr Parry, in his address read to the meeting of the Town-Planning Board yesterday. "After much struggle I had prevailed upon my colleagues in the Government that this Bill was not. the drastic measure which some people thought it to be,” Mr Parry said, "and that it really was designed to help us to secure a better system of local Government than we have at present. The Government had agreed to its introduction. The outbreak of war deferred it. along with many other measures." Landslide in Gully,

A camping party of five Hastings men had a frightening experience when a landslide came down within 50 yards of where their camp was pitched near Cape Kidnappers. They had been deep-sea fishing in the bay when a change in wind made them decide to make for the shore and camp the night in what is known as Rabbit Gully. In the early hours of the morning the men were awakened by a crashing sound, followed by a roar and a series of thuds. An investigation revealed that less than 50 yards up the gully there had been a large slip, the face of one high cliff having come down. There was no other disturbance during the night, but it was admitted by the men that they spent an anxious time untv daybreak, when they returned to <’-e < ’* *?'