DOMINION NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 17 May 1928, Page 7

DOMINION NEWS.

UNION'S ACTION TAILS

Liiv ri'.miGKACH —punas assouial'ioiN.j HAMILTON, May i(J.

The Auckland Plumbers’ Union a ailed ill its action against the fctamntou iiaruvvare Company lor employing a m ii-unionisL. Tito defence was that lho employee was engaged in 1921, bonne tne present award came into ioroe, anti had previously been a member til ine union, out resigned because of a line which lie considered unjust. Mr. . latts, ,>.M.. upheld the defence and dismissed the action.

WIGIIA M SHI El. D COM I > 101' ITJ UN

C.'l IJUSTUH I'HUH, May 1(5. At a meeting of the New Zealand council of the It oval Life Saving Society, it. was decided that the primary schools breaststroke certificates should count halt a point for the Wigram Shield this year and that the matter should come up again for review ai the next annual meeting.

POTATOES THAT DU) NOT KEEP

CHRISTCHURCH. May 16

Replying to a Dannevirke complaint of bad potatoes from the South Island, a Christchurch merchant said that it; was possible that the complaints made referred to potatoes shipped to the North Island in March and early in April. .On account of the comparative failure of the crops in tliu North Island. the demand from there for Canterbury potatoes had set in much earlier than usual. Unusually large (| utilities were shipped in March, curing that month it was difficult to cet potatoes that would keep any length or time and it was admitted that during March and also perhaps early April. Canterbury potatoes had arrived at North ports in bail condition. This was doe to the fact that the potatoes were not sufficiently ripe.