HAMILTON COURSING CLUB.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 173, 22 July 1918, Page 2

HAMILTON COURSING CLUB.

(By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, this day. The Hamilton Coursing Club's meeting was held on Saturday. The Ladies' Brace- : Mesduiiies Moore and Rogerson's Grand Opera being the rnnner up. Mr Davison's Soldier's Triiie won the' Supplementary Stakes. Mr C. Elliott's Pukekohe Lass being muner-np. At an enthusiastic meeting in the evening it was decided to inaugurate the Waikato Coursing Challenge Stakes for ueit season, £100 being subscribed in the room.

(Published by Arrangement.) RETURNED SOLDIERS AND BOOT MANUFACTURERS. (To the Editor.) Dear Sir,—The statement contained in the letter under the above heading, j appearing in the '"Star' of 20th inst., viz., "That when the scheme for the employment of returned soldiers at the boot trade was first introduced all applications for permite to work at the trade were strongly opposed by the union officials, and their antagonism became so marked that the Government placed the i whole authority of making arrangements as between the returned soldier and the employer in the hands of the Labour Department," is contrary to fact, for the personnel of the Board set up to deal with the matter of discharged soldiers permits in the boot trade has never been changed, and that Board was in session as recently as Tuesday, July 9, 1918, when a permit was issued, under the new Order-in-Council. for n returned man to work at the clicking department. At the outset of the matter of employment of discharged soldiers, the Returned Soldiers' Association and the Boot Operatives' Union were of the opinion that the interests of both organisations were identical, in order that the bust conditions possible, and best wages ; obtainable may be secured for the men entering the trade, and the boot operatives were one and all animated by a j keen desire to give their best tuition, so that these men (who have done so much for their country) would become in the shortest possible time, proficient tradesmen. Mr Murray states that "it is obvious that the manufacturers give preference to the returned men as against ordinary unskilled labour." We are pleased to hear that this is so. for, while we are fully aware that he i 3 employing ordinary unskilled labour, up to the "present time the t Board ~ has not been called together to consider an application for a perjnrt for a discharged soldier to "nter Mr Murray's employ. However, whon the t J?* arriTe - and a w made. we can assure ~ Murray that he will find that Si members of the Returned Soldiers' A w£ «at.on and the officials of the B o £ Sa d L-n\ LniOn ' who COm « the |tt a^a^e no ar :% t ::^ onis^to . ! E. F. ANDREWS : Secretary Returned Soldiers' Association ! C. A. WATTS, Secretary Boot Oyeratires' Union.