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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 252, 23 October 1926, Page 8

An order under section 5 of the Apprentices Act, 1923, prescribing the • wages, hours and other conditions of ; employment to be incorporated in cont tracts of apprenticeship in the printing trade in the Northern Industrial District has been filed in the Court of Arbitration. In addition to the provisions contained in a Wellington message which was published in yesterday's issue, it is also provided that a person under \ 21 years of age who' has served part of his apprenticeship outside New Zealand may complete his term on the pro- >. duction of a certificate. The hours worked > by apprentices are to be those normally worked by journeymen. Six hours' over- ' time per week is prescribed as the limit '- for apprentices under 17 years of age. ! So far the fishing season in Auckland r district has not been what could be described as an unqualified success, and ' for the reason that in most of the ' streams that have been stocked there ; appears to be a shortage of food supplies. One Auckland angler who tried ' some of the streams near Putaruru during the past week states that he got . a fish at every cast, but alwut the siz, of a sardine. With a view of improving ' fishing for future seasons, the Auckland ; Acclimatisation Society has decided to [ introduce koura and toitoi (the native cockabully) into the streams. It is ex- : peeled that when the Arapuni Lake '. commences to form, that the large amount of vegetable mutter that will be submerged will make an ideal breeding place for koura, and provide a last- ' ing food supply for the trout which it i is intended to stock there. ! With the Auckland Acclimatisation .Society it is something of a case of "Lift thine eyes to the hills," a≤ on the Wajtakere Kauges there are a ; couple of commodious sheets of fresh water which would make an ideal rendezvous lor brown and rainbow trout. The lakelets in question are Nihotupu i and Waitakere, and, being the chief , source of the city water supply, tinny denizens and disciples of Isaak Walton are not encouraged. "It would be a s great place for lishing," said a niembeT at a meeting of the council of the Acclimatisation Society last evening, and he added that trout had thrived in • the Wainui-o-mata dam, the source of the Wellington water supply. <- So handy for fishing, too," he added. "But say that some poor devil fell in and got drowned. What then?" inquired anpther member. The council hopeful for the advent at some future date of a Mayor and City Council with strong piscatorial leanings and the lifting of the ban did' not pursue the matter further. Incidentally it might be mentioned that brown trout have been introduced into Henderson Creek, and it is hoped that fly fishing there will be an attraction in the near future. Mrs. Herbert, of Christchurch, one of the best known social workers in that city, who has presided over the deliberations of the Benevolent Committee of the North Canterbury Hospital Board for over four years, was interviewed after she had attended a meeting of the Relief Committee of the Auckland board this week. She said that they had their own store at the hospital in Christchurch, and the rations supplied to applicants came from their own depot. In Auckland the goods were supplied by the successful tenderer, who gave goods in exchange for the orders presented. One of the things which had struck her here was the amount of preserved milk given to recipients of relief. All the milk they supplied in Christehurch was fresh milk, which perhaps in their cooler climate kept better than up here. In Christchurch, before they gave ablebodied men food the men were asked to do a certain amount of work, and this had the effect of straightening many of them up, and the "wasters" never came back a second time. The wife deserter problem had to be more fully coped with. It was heartbreaking to have to deal with so much callousness as was shown by the wayward husband. Mrs. Herbert said she had been much impressed by the enthusiasm displayed by Hospital Board members at their work. She is much interested in the children's courts now sitting each week in the large centres, and her influence is widely felt in connection with the Christchurch Children's Court. The Northern Co-operative Terminating Building Society announce that at tl.eir meeting in the council chamber of the Town Hall on Thursday nest, appropriations will be made totalling £22,400, there being a ballot and a sale in every group. This, is stated to be the largest amount ever appropriated at r>ne meeting by any building society in New Zealand. "Our future policy will be to go in for more brown trout,' , said the president (Mr. C. A. Whitney) at a meeting of the council of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society last evening. The president added that they would be splendid fish for the North Auckland rivers, or any of the slow running streams that would not carry rainbow trout. It is expected that the regulations under the Motor Omnibus Traffic Act of last session, which comes into operation on November 1, will be gazetted during the course of next week.