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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 226, 28 October 1914, Page 10

would require about 210 tons of chaff and 70 tons of oats for the horses during the voyage and for fourteen days after landing, and asking the assistance of members of the union in providing the required quantity. The Oxford Branch of the Union wrote replying to the union's letter concerning a proposed amendment of the National Endowments Act, 1907. They stated that they approved of sale for cash or lease witli the option of purchase. They objected to the option to present occupiers as being against the interests of the general public, and because the occupier's interests absolutely ceased at the expiration of his lease. All moneys should be paid into a separate account and earmarked for the endowment for which it was originally intended. The same branch wrote expressing the opinion that the question of whether or not an Elective Executive is desirable was a political matter and outside the province of the union. ■ Discussing the question of an Elective Executive, Mr Leadley said that the present party system of government kept many of the best men in the country out of politics. Whether the Elective Executive was a remedy or not he was not prepared to say. It was decided, on the motion of the chairman, that a small deputation wait on the Addington Saleyards Company and urge the necessity for erecting at the yards a weigh-bridge for weighing stock before it was sold.

Mr A. E.G. Rhodes was a passenger for the North last evening. The managing director of the Union Steam Ship Company, Mr C. Holdsworth, left for Wellington by the Wahine last night.