MILLERTON NOTES.

Grey River Argus, 18 May 1922, Page 2

MILLERTON NOTES.

(Our' Own Correspondent.) The weather was perfect on Sunday for Soccer football. A benefit game between the Wanderers and Thistle was played on the Domain in aid of Abe Bradley, one of our lads on Millerton who has more than his snare of bad luck in this rough old world. The game was witnessed by a large crowd and the players are to be complimented for giving such a good display, '“he Wanderers, fresh from their tour of the Grey district, were looked upon as certain winners, but the Thistle players came to light and a draw was the re >u lt—two goals each. Space will not allow me to deal with lire individual players, of which there was some very fine exhibitions. The Pantomime Company played ‘‘Bo-Peep” on Millerton hist Friday i night. They had a very good house. The show was first-class ami we hope , that this will be the forerunner of I many good shows to visit Millerton, i The County Hall is now suitable for j the latest up-to-date companies, and adj vanco agents would be well advised not Ho miss Millerton when visiting the ’Coast. Mrs Wyatt kindly consented to i forgo her usual Friday picture show, :to enable the Millerton people the op- ! portunity of seeing the pantomime. Her j action was much appreciated by the

Millerton people. The Soccer footballers run their usual Saturday night dance in Page’s Hall, which is usually well-attended. This Hall, with a little expediture could be made very comfortable for dancing. A new piano would be a blessing, especially to the musicians. I wonder, il old Bob Cook reads these notes! The Committee for the Russian Famine Relief have matters well in hand for their concert next Friday night. May 19. This is to be no ordinary concert as -every item is to be of the very best and there is 24 items on the programme. Never has there been sued a programme put on for the Millerton people. The tickets are 1/- each and the concert will be worth -I/-, and the proceeds will go to H |C starving Russians. There is no need to boost a cause like this as the Millerton people know their duty 100 well and are certainly doing their bit. 'l’he inevitable pay day is approaching wlivn the reduction in wages wib be brought home to the miners of this •ountry. This is without a doubt the most unjust treatment ever dealt out 1c the miners on this Coast. Judge l-'raser and his two electric shocks Scott and Reardon have certainly no conception of the conditions of life in these outlandish coal fields, to lake K>/a week oil: the lowest paid man around a mine, cannot be sail Io be i" ;ul .' way fair or reasonable. Tin- .Millerton il’nion is strongly protesting against I the (‘unit’s action. The method of [redress will be I'miud in the near future, iwe do not intend to our slawlard of living reduced without a protest L„| t hi s .-an only be. done when the miner realises the great injustice Hie Court has inflicted upon him. There is another Massey tribunal called the Board of Trade hovering around this country somewhere. J’ might do good work if it I ranslerred its attention to this district for a veck or two. and sec if it could reduce, the cost of some of the commodities. H' a court is going to base our wages on the cost of living then we will have to get busy aud see where their justification for a reduction comes in. F surely has not been warranted m this district. This Court is a grand thing for the coal owners—just have to wipe a pound or two, off the miners’ pay litn( . every six months. Are the miners on the Coast gone to sleep/ N ,)w 1S their chance to get together. M < h- 1 ' looked to our national organisation to steer us to the. promised land, but we i;... that the. foundation has not been I iili of stone and is crumbling. The .east miners who have always been ,-eady o assist the old cause along find now that some hard-thinking is neecs.ary if the miner of this country is going to Steer himself clear of the web t1 ,.,t is -urely being woven around him. Mure honesty of purpose is needed m our ranks . if wo are to overcome some O f the dark clouds that appear on the horuzon ut- |> ro &ent.