DENNISTON NOTES.

Grey River Argus, 2 June 1922, Page 8

DENNISTON NOTES.

(Onr Own Correspondent.) The annual meeting of the Denniston i Medical Association was held on Tuesday, May 15. The balance-sheet for the year ending was re; d and adopted as sati> factory. The following nominations were received for the various offices: Secretary, Messrs A. Jack, G. |lL.ggins, ami P. Smalley; President. I Mr A If Dellaway; Treasurer, Air J. Hayes: Management Committee, Messrs Hawes, \V. Little, Boydell, Milligan, and E. Coppersmith. A ballot was necessary only for the position of secretary, as there were only the required number in the other positions. The result of the ballot was: Smalley S 9, •Jack' 72, Higgins 40. As then' was not an absolute majority Messrs Smallev and Jack had to go fo the b: Hot again, resulting in Mr Jack being elected by a majority of 80 votes. The miners here w’re afforded, the opportunity of drawing their first re- ‘ duction in wages on pay Friday lust, • and it will be severely fell by many : here. Why has the employee in the I coal industry to submit io a deJ crease of wages to the tune of from 20 (to 30 shillings a fortnight? Without j exaggeration, this is putting in the wooden shoe! Dubbs will have + o awake to the fact that they must seek the reins of control if they want to get j anything like a decent standard of living. /The election is drawing near, and it behoves (‘very working man and worn n throughout this country to organise for the purpose of having a Govern-

merit that will legislate for all on an equal basis, with class interests sunk into oblivion. The Denniston Glee Chib put on an entertainment on ]>ay Friday in the Denniston Hall, the proceeds of which will go towards the fund for the motor ambulance. This little company of entertainers are worthy of lhe highest praise, as they are always ready to assist any worthy cause. The funeral of young S. Bartholomew (who met with the accident on the 24th inst, being crushed to deaiii through a truck of stone pinning him against, a railing’) took place on Saturday, the mines being idle. A largo number attended to pay their last tribute of respect to decease!. Theremain swore taken from the residenc * to the Presbyterian Church, where a ■ service suitable to the oc- asion was ' held by the Rev. Charters, after which ; remains were taken from the residence | to Orowaiti Cemetery, the Rev. Char- | tors officiating at the graveside. The | entir<* sympathy of the community ; s j extemled Io a sorrowing mother and sis- | ter in their sudden sad bereavement. j A carpenter employed by the XVestport Coal Company, named XV. Curchio, j had a narrow escape from a fatal acci- i dent on the 23rd inst. He was engag j ed on a building al the Wareatca engine shed, and, by accident, fell on the | endless rope, which carried him into j the tension wheel, where he got sex - - 1 erely bruised and knocked about, and j is at present an inmate of the Denniston Hospital. The Denniston Medical Association, at the present time, is having a big ('all on the funds through accident', there being 24 on the list for this pay.

Yet we have representatives or capitalism who have the audacity to state that there is no more liability to accident in or about a coal mine than in the As there is a. possibility of the driver of the motor that conveyed the remains of the unfortunate youth from here on Saturday reading these notes, I. would advise him in future to use a little more discretion than prevailed on Saturday Just. Funerals should not be hurried .jobs, and people who attend want an opportunity afforded them of joining into a procession to follow the remain; some little distance on the road 1o th-.? last resting place.