DUNEDIN.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 101, 22 January 1908, Page 8

DUNEDIN.

January 21. Five -children) and four nurses are .suffering from scarlet f«c(?r in the ])uncdin Hospital, and tlio hubpital trustees have decided

that' these - -.nine' patiehts\.should[beH'binoved.- ; Such removal has, however, to bo effected by. tho Hospital Board, and tho Health Officer savs h6 has iioj power to authorise. . the Board to make use of temporary accommodation. Further, the Health' Ofiicer thinks tho hospital is as 'pood -a place as any for these patients."-: There l the;.snattcr 'standstill it. is discussed by the hospital-trustees.-Last Saturday mornpjg,• tliqro l passed'.'awray - ; an old resident ol Duncdin in tho person of Mr.- G. M. Jlatlnson, of the firm of Matlnson Bros.j contractors.- - Tho • deceased camo to; Duncdin in ISO 2, niuVfov. itlie last fortv years ho and his brother William have: ' brought, to completion .a ? large',: nilmbcr of public works. "V'--'.y-i '■ ■, >North-East, Valley; l .'alarmed f'at ; 'the': fre-'. t/Uoncy .of- fires, is taking ? tlie'^iiiitial' step's towards-procuring a witer-siipply.' - >. A distingiiishea visitor :t6''tlie'so. ; shores is •Mr. 'William C. Dawes, : ehairriia'|i"'bf directors of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company and the Xow Zealand. : Shipping Company, who "amvediat-;th'o : Bliiff fronv London last Monday week, ■ h'rid" is'.to ■ leave Duncdin on Thursday for the North. ;' ■, INVERCARQILL. ! ' ■. /, . ...• January. 18.. We in Southland- have nothing much to complain, of with; regard to.-.thb! weather this' summer, . although we: soon-- get'-'frightened arid begin .to - cry out. if for ..'a week or two we are Without rain. ' During the; Holidays we had,' a spell df heat,:.the;-thcrniometer registering -up-', to 90 degrees in: .the shadei and, amateur gardeners ;i,ii .tho'. townr began -to : grumblo,,a"'go'od".deal .at so. many;of'their, small transplanted , annuals being burnt up, .but. the farmers have had of complaint,, for the turnip ; and oiit crops aro doing, well, and promise heavy', yields.. In some .places, however, the turnips have suffered from the,fly. ... . : During, . tlio past week Mr. ■ Pryor, tho SEcretary ,of ' tho : .^New;. Zealand .Employers' Federation,' has: ..been • in our midst, and . both privately and at a fairly well attended meeting of< employers 'of labour,,at"Allen's Hall, on Thursday evening, ho .explained, fully, the-'aims, objects:.and working of the 'Federation,,.and the greatnecessity of. mooting - the • labour organisation by similar organisation.; oil: 'jbhe part- of) the employers,. the', result being ■ a;largo influx of niembors to the local Employers' :Federa'tion.. ■ ' ■ ' , .

. 'Yesterday by arrangement; Mr.' Pryor met the members of the. Southland Executive of, the Farmers'.. Union,. there -being present, ;Mr. J; M'Qiieeri ' (President)| I\lessrs. A. Beaver -(Waiaujwa)',' Alex'. , Roy . (Mossburn), J.: i).''Trotter;(Woodlands)-, R. Tapper, jun.c (Otautiiu)'; T. W. Foster (Edendale),\E. Macalistcr (Rivcrsdale),, C.- S. Stevens ' (Opio), Jas. H. P. Henriksen (Balfour), which must- be acknowledged as a thoroughly, representative ;gi>thering'of the,farmers of, Southland! - The object of the meeting was'to,discuss the desirability,of the Union; affiliivtiiig with the federation,'"and- Mr. 3'ryor,..in ; a lucid, ad:dress, put- the. desirability,'r.of'*■-tho iiifliliation llrom the Federation's jipint of view, and as tho ! sequel proved' carried weight and conviction with his remarks. After, a >oto of thanks to Mv. Pryor had been passed, the following Resolution was unanimously adopted: "That in , the interest. of the tanning community it is.desirable that the Southland Provincial Executive -should be -affiliated with the - .Southland., Employers' Association, and' that- tho' matter be , referred ■ to . thebranches at- .oiice, and they be asked: for an early rejiiy." ■. -. .-

; The.fact of the farm labourer's of Gauterbury/seeking to secure an .awa'rd : froth the Arbitration Court, and a similar action the part of the shepherds and. musterers, is waking up'tho farmers of Southland to the probability of its being their turn next, or, as. many think, the certainty. This is rousing many to the feeling-that unless they aro prepared to submit to he dictated to by'their servants, as to the management, of- their farms, .they must necessarily combine for their protection, and .'that tliis can best be done by throwing their weight and influence into the Farmers' Union.