MINE MANAGERS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1921, Page 2

MINE MANAGERS.

. Attention is drawn to the Railway adi vei'tisement in this issue giving train r arrangements for Reefton Races. The Public are reminded that the 6.0 p.m. special train from Reefton each day will not stop at Taipoiti.

MEETING OF DELEGATES. A very successful meeting of delegates representative of all the branches of the New Zealand Society of Mine Managers was held in Christchurch on December 29. The President, Mr GSmith, of Denniston, gave an outline of the’business done by the society dining the past year. Dealing with the Coal Mines Act, the President poiifted out that it was almost impossible to carry out the existing laws in every respect, and yet, if a mine manager did not do so, he was liable to a prosecution. If some of those persons responsible for the making of the laws had to carry them out they would get along better. The following were elected members of the Executive Council President, Mr G. Smith, Denniston; vice-president Mr J. Allison, Huntly; secretary-trea-surer, Mr C. Strongman, Runanga; committeeman, Mr A. Morris, South-

land. , , . The Greymouth and Buller branches were combined (according to rules) to form the Executive Committee as lollops - President, Mr G. Smith, Denniston • vice-president, Mr J. Armstrong, Reefton; secretary, Mr C. Strongman, Runanga: committeeman, Mr T. king, Millerton.

From tho ends of the earth, thousands of tons of c<nd are being landed daily in Nehv Zealand. Apart from the large importations being delivered at northern ports, three foreign steamers are discharging in Otago harbour, states* the “Daily Times.” At Port Chalmers, the 'American steamer Broxton is discharging c«al from Newcastle, and the Swedish steamer 'Sydic is landl ing American coal from the James i River. In Dunedin,, a cargo of over 1.3000 tons of Japanese coal is ready Ito be discharged from th e Tamon Maru, I while the Union Company steamer Cosj mos is delivering coal from Newcastle. The great bulk of this imported coal is for 'the New Zealand railways, so there should he no concern felt by holiday excursionists lest a reduced train service may hamper their home-coming.

A diverting story of how a cheque j for £20,000, bearing the signature of a j famous Anglo-Greek millionaire, Sir Basil Zaharoff, was treated as a joke, j has come to light in Paris. It appears j that two months ago Sir Basil Zaharoff \ visited the Paris Zoo and talked to the guardian* of the monkey house. Tic waxed indignant at the miserable state j of the monkey house, and when told that £20,000 was wanted to put it in j proper order, he immediately wrote a j cheque for that amount and handed it i to the keeper. The latter, thinking i that he had to deal with an amiable j lunatic, gave the cheque to the office i chief, who laughingly put it in a draw- I er and forgot all about it for two ! months, when, as a matter of form, he j sent it to the Minister of Education., j To his horror he promptly received a i sharp note, asking what was meant by j keeping a cheque signed bv Zaharoff | for two months. Sir Basil Zaharoff is j a well-known Continental banker, and j was born in Greece in 1850. He was I educated at London and Paris, and es- j tablished chairs of aviation at the TTni- J versities of Paris and Petrograd, and I also one in England attached to the j Imperial College oif Science. ;

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