TRADE UNION BILL RAWHITIROA.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 25 June 1927, Page 5

TRADE UNION BILL

RAWHITIROA.

(From Our Own Correspondent). „ Decided improvements have been recently made round the sehoolhoiuse at Rawhitiroa. Working bees have cleared the road frontage, put in a new path and fenced it, planting .shrubs and climbers along the fence. When these o row up, the effect should be excellent. A concrete path has also been made from the school to the gate, an excellent job, for which the voluntary workers are to be congratulated. It has been neatly finished, and a lawn has been 'aid down in. front of the school. In the course of drainage operations behind Eltham, in the Rawhitiroa district, two distinct belts of timber, one above the other, were found in .some places. The draining of the swamps—there are two distinct levels on either side of the road, with ai difference of about fortv feet and varying in different parts—is a difficult’ problem. It is a remarkable fact that in places timber comes out with leaves green and well preserved, but that a,s soon as it reaches the air it crumbles away in a short time.

DEBATE IN THE COMMONS. LABOUR HOSTILE TO THE END. BRITAIN’S RECORD FOR STRIKES. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LONDON, June 23. Mr P. Snowden, discussing the Trade Union Bill in the House of Commons, said there was design in the ambiguity of the Bill. The Govern meat Lid its real intentions in a mass of verbiage, leaving the interpretation of it to the courts. The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mir Winston Churchill) summing up -the debate, -said no country in the world could com pare with Great Britain’s record' for strikes and industrial stoppages. - Had the country deserved thnsr (Labour cries of “Yes.”) Mr OhurchiU: “We Lave only got to go on tearing each other to pieces to injure the country beyond the power of any party Government to repair.” Considerable Labour interruption led Mr Churchill to sav “I do not want -to cast rav pearls where they are mgt wanted.” The guillotine foil anndst uproar, and the Bill was read a third time by 354 votes to 139, wberoupon -at few Labour members attempted to sing Rule Britannia.”