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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 2, 27 September 1922, Page 8

Some of the visitors to the Arbitration Court during the hearing of the waterside dispute have apparently been obtaining much enjoyment from the proceedings, for occasionally they have indulged in loud guffaws. There is no more patient Judge on the Bench than Mr. Justice Frazer, but yesterday the practice became so pronounced that it drew from him the remark, in angry tones, “You people in tho back, if there are going to be any more interruptions the lot of you will have to get out. Tliis isn’t a picture show!’” A request made by returned soldier farmers in the Greytown district • that their holdings sliould be revalued is being supported by the local Chamber of Commerce, which will seek the aid of other chambers in the matter. Delegates of the men, who met the Greytown Chamber on Saturday night, stated that the butter-fat price being now anything from Is. Old. to Is. 4d., as against 2s. 9d. when they took over, they found it impossible to carry on under the present valuation. They therefore sought a considerable reduction as from the beginning of the slump. 'Hiey mentioned that where a partnership existed the claim was doubled by the Department. An amusing evening may be looked for on October 5, when a dramatic entertainment, “Uncle Anyhow,” is to be staged in the Concert Chamber of the X°wn Hall in aid of the Military Memorial Chapel Fund. The caste includes Miss Kitty Chayter, Miss Betty Hislop, Mrs. Ashfordj Miss Cecil Baldwin, Mr. C. A. Treadwell, Mr. John Duncan, Mr. Ernest Anderson. Mr. Charles Ashford, Mr. Pat Ward, aud Mr. Ross Gore.

The Paparoa is expected to arrive in the stream from London and Hiuthampton at 1 p.m. to-day, and in that event will berth at No. 1 Queen’s Wharf about two hours later. It is understood that, apart from the ordinary passengers, there aro a number of assisted immigrants on board.