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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 147, 16 March 1908, Page 8

f From : ;a : witness' "• beforo " the.' Arbitration • Court in . tho ■ tanners'. and fcllmorigers' disputev(says . the: Ohristchurch "Pross'.'),. who ~ was oomplairJng ..of "thpr inadequacy" of.: tho' v payment. Jo'r -a-certain class', of work, it.-was •" .••• ascertained rtbatV during .'tho- past fourteen : , years a he,had; acquired . freehold property--, oyer seventeen, acres—at Islington;-' and-'the an','argument ' that the ■: work was ' not, so badly paid/as. witness hpd made out. "iou .will hot be surprised," V remarked 'thb witness, •' "when ,1 tell you . that. I was able to acquire tho property be- . cause I neither .smoko;-. drink, nor gamble 1 on horse/races,;' nor. gamble; in; any. shapo; or , ; .• In rtiply to a Union representative, . tho .witness . stated, that tho money-wherc- . ; with he', purchased the ,land, had not all been earned-at tho occupation in: regard- to which he. was'giving it had been acquired by dealings, in. other land. If ho Bold the land he; held at present lie -would z not. be m a position to'.'retire on the pro- ' cceds... . '- ■ ". . ' ' ;

• The /effects : of, the bush fires : throughout the land have been felt; at sea, where dense ■" smoke, has-'menaced! shipping ,and caused much worry., lytuiiately, for; all- oil . land ', ..." and ' sea, tho 1 fire§ , iirb subsiding,.' and with the -dispersal-'.'of. tho; smoke ; navigation will ■bo less difficult.'. The, worries of those:at' sea have had; the/sympathies-of'those on land ' (says tho Dunedin:."Staf"), as is showii by the following'copy-of a telegr,am' : senVby Sir James ( Mills; to; the branch; offices.of - the Union Company i—f'The; directors thes anxiety masters and, officers must havo' felt' during the. last few, .weeks,regarding the safety of lives and property in their charge,, and, are glad to congratulate vtheniupon their immunity from accident. • ; Please communicate this to masterlyand officers at yOUr . port," ;• ■ :