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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30981, 10 February 1966, Page 12

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Sir Henry Clay, senior part- ' ner to McLellan and Partners. engineering consultants |to the New Zealand Steel I Company with W. S. Atkins and Partners, will arrive in Auckland on Saturday with Lady Clay to attend the annual conference of the New Zealand Institution of Engineers.—(P.A.)

Mr H. Miller has retired from the post of librarian at the Victoria University of Wellington after 38 years’ service. A graduate of the university, he was a Rhodes Scholar in 1920 and took a degree in politics, economics and philosophy at Oxford. From 1925 to 1927 he was a W.E.A. tutor at Timaru. Mr Miller is a member of the Anglican General Synod standing committee, and of the provincial committee on public and social affairs.

Canterbury quota system, to the effect that in January this system was depriving the companies of 3800 head of stock daily. What rot! At our local Mid-Canterbury works thirty-five slaughtermen have just been dismissed after three successive weeks of broken time and short kills. What should be realised is that the men required to cope with the demands of peak kills become financial burdens on their fellow-workers when stock is not forthcoming. If tt is good enough for the farmer to withhold stock at various times and for various reasons then surely the freezing worker is justified in taking some means to attempt to stabilize his earning power.— Yours, etc., I’M ALL RIGHT, JACK. February 9, 1966.