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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 137, 10 June 1918, Page 8

At last Thursday's meeting of the Otogo Labour Council the Hon. J. T. Paul was appointed the council's delegate to the Federation of Labour Conference to be held at Wellington in July. The Otago Metal Workers' Assistants' Union, at a, meeting in> the Trades Hall, Port Chalmers, on Wednesday, selected Mr. J. D. Smith as their delegate to the conference.

Quite a number of business firms in New Plymouth received a rude shock last week, when they had cheques which had been paid into their accounts returned by the Bank of New Zealand. The cheques, which are generally speaking, for sums varying from £20 downwards, purport to have been drawn up by a well-known Stratford resident, and are payable to various names, including "wages" or "bearer." In most cases the tradespeople, comprising boot importers, clothiers, jewellers, hotelkeepers, and others, not only parted with goods, but also gave change considerably in excess of the value of the goods. The total value of the goods purchased, together with the change given in cash, represent a large sum. A jeweller relajas that an "elderly man" came in with a tale that "they" wished to make a presentation to a school teacher, and had been recommended to that shop. He left with a watch and a set of brushes, valued at £3 10s, and £7 in cash which he got as change for a cheque for ten guineas.

The Bishop of Birmingham has pub- ! licly suggested that a more modest level j of living generally might lead to better I marriages and happier homes, and that I the two sexes should be treated with ab- j solute equality in regard to divorce. Sol- j diers whom he had visited in hospital had told him that owing to the impossi- ■ bility of getting rid of an unfaithful wife j by legal means they were tempted to try the gallows. "The dairying industry is on top of j the wave," said Mr. J. Grigg,' of Long- . .beach, in proposing the toast of "The ] Dairying Industry" at a dinner tendered , to the South Island Dairy Association ■ delegate in Christchwch on Wednesday by the dairy factories of Canterbury. Some farmers were making up to £20 a ! year per cow. Mr. Grigg advised them : to make all they could and so clear all the mortgages off farm lands. The whole country would benefit. By exercising: efficiency in the way of in'troduc- J ing the better class of cows and food i and in preventing waste —for there was j waste in the production of milk—the ' output would be increased, and the day I would come when the dairying industry i in this country would displace wool and take the lead in Dominion products. 1