OUR DUNEDIN TELEGRAMS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 May 1906, Page 1

OUR DUNEDIN TELEGRAMS.

[I!V TELEGRAPH —SPECIAL TO THE STAR.] THEGEAR ON SOCIALISM. N.Z. SWIMMING RECORDS. ' DUNEDIN, This Day. In re-printing from the “Beacon," an article signed hy Trcgear, Secretary of the Department of Labour, on socialism in New Zealand, the Otago Daily Times editorially says: “The contents of the letter might ho wholly disregarded if they merely represented the wild views of political agitators, of whom every country has its share, hut is is impossible to dismiss them so lightly when penned hy a public servant, and the permanent head of the department of which it is his duty to administer some of lliounoro important laws of the colony fairly as between employer and employee Capitalist and wage-earner of the community will observe that the Secretary of the Department of “ahour has in a most outspoken way expressed a direct adhesion to the programme of straight-out socialism At a meeting of the Otago Centre of the New Zealand Swimming Association, it was resolved that in the opinion of the meeting the fastest times made hy New Zealanders sTfoiild ho taken as the New Zealand records. That the times__made hy visiting swimmers during thoTf''first season’s residence should not ho taken as Now Zealand records. It was mentioned that climatic conditions rendered it practically hopeless lor New Zealanders to cope with • Australians. Mr Justice Williams will, in all proh- . ability, represent Otago University at ! the 400th anniversary of Aberdeen Univ- ! ersity.