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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23581, 7 March 1942, Page 6

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VICEREGAL (P.A.) WELLINGTON, March 6. The Governor-General (Sir Cyril Newall) and Lady Newall, attended by Major C. J. Holland-Martin, will leave Wellington on March 11 to pay a number of official visits to the North Auckland district. They will later proceed to Auckland where they will go into residence at Government House. The Mayor (Mr E. H. Andrews) returned to Christchurch yesterday after attending a conference of the executive of the Municipal Association in Wellington. 1 Mr R. P. H. Hewat, of Invercargill, i has been awarded the New Zealand University’s Senior Scholarship in Law for 1942. Mr Hewat, who also completed his B.A. degree at Otago University last year, is now serving with the Otago Battalion. He was educated at the Southland Boys’ High School and Christ’s College. A tribute was paid at the Tekapo sale yesterday to Mr T. D. Burnett, M.P., a former president of the Tekapo Saleyards Company, by the president (Mr George Murray). Those present observed half a minute’s silence in recognition of his services to the settlers of the district. Defence of New Zealand “The people of New Zealand are spending an immense amount of time . and thought on holes to hide in, when they should be thinking about the defence of the country,” declared Mr M G. C. McCaul, at a meeting of the Wellington Chamber of Cqmmercc, when objecting to a discussion on a 1 defence matter being held in com- ; mittee. He held that questions relat- 1 ing to the defence of the country should be discussed in public; Mr M. ] F. Luckie questioned whether it should be discussed at all; but the i president (Mr R. H. Nimmo) saw no reason why it should not be discussed in committee, and this course was followed. Dutch Immigrants The hope that, after the war, New Zealand would again take up the question of receiving Dutch immigrants was expressed by the Consul for the Netherlands (Hr. M. F. Vigeveno), addressing the English Speaking Union in Wellington. There would be difficulties at first, because of the number of returning soldiers, but he thought the Dominion would be wise not to '-oncentrate exclusively on soldier settlement. That, he said, could well go hand-in-hand with immigration. By bringing in more people New Zealand would create a market for much of its own produce and would incidentally help its own. Cotton Factories in Dominion “There is a possibility of cotton factories coming into existence in New Zealand in the near future, and we wish to protect workers entering such an industry,” said Mr W. W. • Batchelor, advocate for the New Zealand Federated Woollen Mills and Hosiery Factories Employees’ Association, before the Conciliation Council in Wellington when asking that work- ■ ers engaged in cotton manufacture be : covered by the new award sought. Mr ] A. S. Cookson, Dunedin, advocate for • the New Zealand Woollen Mill Own- ; ers’ Association, replied that there would be time enough for such in- ; elusion when the industry began. To 1 make the inclusion now might save j time later, said Mr Batchelor. He be- ■ lieved that cotton , factories might | come into existence before the exist- ' ing award ran out. The employees’ ■ association did not wish to take em- 1 ployers away from their work for : more proceedings. The inclusion re- i quested was agreed to. 1