A RUSSIAN PROFESSOR.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 87, 11 April 1908, Page 6

A RUSSIAN PROFESSOR.

« • f?_, yiSIT TO. NEW. ZEALAND. „ Vladimir V. de Sviatlowsky, professor of political economy at the Imperial (University of St. Petersburg, is in Wellington. He has a commission from the • Eussian Government to learn how the ■ labour laws of New Zealand axe work- I .ing, and to discover whether similar ■legislation would be practicable in the Tsar's Empire. The professor, who is the author of five books on political economy, is familiar with most of the fcooks and pamphlets that have treated of New Zealand's experiments, and his mission now is to get information at first hand. He will pass on to Australia, then to London,- and is due home in September. The professor was the leading spirit in the organisation of labour unions in and bringing the membership up to 140,000, including 65,000 in the capi."tal. At first the Government was hostile, and the campaigning was arduous, 'for assemblies were forbidden, but gradually the authorities came to believe.that .the professor's work meant good not evil to Russia, and from opposition , the authorities changed to an attitude of sympathy, which culminated in the despatch of the economist to the Antipodes. "How are matters in Rnssia?" the professor was asked. He smiled, and shrugged his shoulders meaningly. "I have not been there since June," he "taid. ■ "There are great changes." Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Wellington, have received the following cable message from London under date of fcho 10th instant: — "Hemp.— Marked firmer. Wo quote pre--«cnt value of good, fair, £25 10a to £25 '15» per ton. The Commissioner of Taxes makes a notification in our advertising columns. Mias Kate Stewart, of the Langer Dresscutting School, advertises that nor dresscutting classes will be opened in the .Town Hall, Lower Hutt. Mis 3 Stewart will be |in attendance on Monday 13th, to enrol pupils. Classes will begin on the 27tb -inst. _ '..At tho New Century Hall to-morrow "evening Mrs. Georgia Gladys Cooley will deliver a lecture. The La Belle Ohi'ro Assembly will not be held on noxt. The Wellington Master Bakera' Union has a notice in our advertising columns pi interest to the public. Holiday excursion tickets will be issued on the Wellington and Manawatu railway from 14th to 20th April. The dates of the Easter bank holidays are advertised in to-night's issue. The Hntt Park Committee invites tenders for tho purchase for removal of certain buildings '.on the park. Messrs. Meek and Yon Haast, barristers and solicitors, have removed to new offices in St. George's building, Brandonstreet. Sacred recital of music will be held in St. Anne's Church, Northland, and at iWadestown during Easter. Particulars are advertised in this issue. The adjourned meeting of the Grocers 'Assistants' Union will be held at the ,Trade 3 Hall on Tuesday evening next. An announcement in another column gives information concerning the higher theoretical examinations of Trinity College, entries for which close on Wednesday next. Particulars of a sale of crockeryware and glasses purchased from tho estate of iWinton and M'Lochlan are advertised in this issue by Messrs. Richardson Bros., 115. Upper Caba-atreet. Messrs. Levien, ShaHcrass and Co. notify through our advertising columns that ■egnlar auction sales of furniture will be bid at tbe. Cegjr&l 'Aoctjpn Popmjs, , iWillis-rtrept.