NOTES FROM CALCIUM.

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 38, 3 December 1920, Page 8

NOTES FROM CALCIUM.

Industrial Unrest. — The feature of the week ha-s been the restiveness of the dairy farming community. It appears that the trouble has arisen through the N.Z. Milk Products, Ltd., failing to continue the arrangement made at the begirming of the season regarding the carxiage of milk. Many of the farmers have been to considerable expense providing equipment to give the Company a satisfactory commodity, hence their natural resentment at any attempt to vary the agreement to the disadvantage of the dairyman at this late period of the season. However, the latest report is to the effect that the managing director has stated that the Company will fulfil its obligations, so the joyful whistle of the cow-cockie will probably be heard breaking the morning stillness about 3 a.m. as of yore. Sport. — Punters returned from Winton duly bent but not quite broke. The locally-owned Buller won and paid a good price. Though not extensively backed from this quarter our sports are all pleased to see the old sprinter back to winning. form, and congratulate Mr Mclntyre on his success with what any judges considered a back number. For the present our racegoers are laying up a littie vad to dissipate at Invercargill anout New Year time. Work and Wages.— Shearing operatjons eommenced at Messrs McNeill s property last week. The weather is too cold to make- the conditions good for this work, and the shearers report very hard cutting. The wisdom of the A.P.U. in fighting for decent wages while price* were high is proved to-day. With the wool market in its present condition it would have been a difficult matter to make the squa ter give his shearers either improve wages or comfortable quarters to lbe in Cost of Living. — J ubilation is exP^esS% he.reabouts regarding the penalty in 1C

„ recent profiteering cases. It would Hat th.ro ia only a legal diftoroace letween the dishonest trader and the lick-pocKet — a difference that has no Itable basis. The question is whether qtrader who has been proved to have onducted his dealings with the publie shonestly should be aJlowed to keep his loorj open. A higher standard of busiiess morality is one of the necessities of Tt» «tork conf fow his favours on the residents of this Iad Bmmunity. Your correspondent as lost the exact tally, but there must at least half a dozen proud fathera ;h0 111 be asking him to give it a name iext timo he meets them at Colin Aitcheion's.