A PEACEFUL FARM. MASTER AND MEN AGREE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 09, 11 January 1908, Page 6

A PEACEFUL FARM. MASTER AND MEN AGREE.

There is a happy land, not far away. It is an estate on the Canterbury Plains, the Orari Gorce fetation, managed by Mr. B. Tripp. The members of the Conciliation Board, seeking practical evidence for their guidance in the farm labourers' dispute, went out to Orari, and the things which came bfiore their eyes convinced them that it is possible for employers and workers to liveand york together in harmony. - The conditions were found to bs everything that could be desired, and members of the board, as well as Messrs. Thorn and Kennedy, representing the Labourers' Union, expressed thsmselevs in unqualified terms of praise of all thai, they .«aw, both as regards the sleeping accommodation and the food, states the Christchurch Press. It was seen that the men have a roomy, sub-stantially-built house with a verandah round two sides, in which to live, the verandah having wire netting running round to prevent dogs from getting on to it. The dwelling contains a requisite number of bedroms for the men, so that (here is no over-crowding and no double bunks, nor any bunks built on tht> tier system, and besides these- rooms there i." a spacious diniugrom, a kitchen and pantry, a, leadingroom with, a variety of reading matter on the table, rind a. bathroom and lavatory. From end to end tho dwelling wa6 found to be spotlessly clean, a fact which members of the' board interpreted as an indication that the men appreciated and took a pride' in the comfortable quarters provided for them by a considerate "boss." The food, too, was in keeping with the /quarters. A reporter who went among some of tho men discovered that not one of them was a unionist ; they had no provocation. "Wo have the champion boss of the world," remarked one. "In fact, Mr. Tripp is too good, he can't do enough for us, but in return we try to do all we can for him, and aDy man would for so good a boss." To tho i-ounds of praise lavished upon him, Mr. Tripp, simply replied: — "My father always said — Treat a man well and he will treat you well.' I have found this to be sound advice." Mr. Thorn, the union's advocate, confessed that everything he had seen at tha station had given him very great pleasure. He felt like saying to every farm and station-holder in the Dominion: "Go thou and do likewise."

A misapprehension has arisen as to draughtsmen eligible for membership to the Draughtsmen's Institute. Ifc is intended that the membership shall include all branches qf the draughting profession — mechanical, survey, architectural, lithographic, civil engineering, and artistic. At last night's meeting of t^he King's Coronation Lodge of Good Templars, Bro. S. Shaw presided. Owing to resignations several offices were declared vacant. The following were elected and installed to fill the vacancies : — C.T., Bro. S. Shaw; F.S., Bro. A. Dryden; Marshal, Bro. F. Booth; P.C.T, Bro. L. Parris. After the routine business had been finished games wero played, and concert items contributed by Sister E.- Morris, Bros. Shaw and Sharp. Hearty greetings were received from the Bfenheim Lodge. The founda-tion-stones of the new Primitive Mothod,ißfc Church at Island Bay will be laid on Wednesday afternoon. The Rev. P. W. Fairclough will preside, and three tablets will be placed in position by Messrs. J. G. Aitken, W. Moxham, and H. Crump. The following cases of infectious diseases in the city were reported to the Health Department during the week ending to-day: — Scarlet "fever, 4; enteric fever, 5; diphtheria, 1. Calendars for 1908 arc to hand from the New Zealand Shipping Company, the Norwich and London Accident Insurance Association, the Atlas and Manchester utiices, ancjj the Pacitic Cable Board. M'j srs. Thompson Bros., Ltd-, advortibo a clearing 1 sale of produce at tho premise! of Xlesm H. Baldwin and Co., on