CHRISTCHURCH NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 59, 10 March 1911, Page 3

CHRISTCHURCH NEWS.

LABOR MATTERS

[FROM OOR 'CORRESPONDENT,]

CHRISTCHURCH, March 9. From the north to the south of New Zealand the i Hon. J.^T. Paul, President of the Tailoresses' Federation, is on a visiting tour to the various tailoresses' unions. He arrived in Christchurch yesterday and will go on to Dunedin on Friday. after meeting the local tailoresses this evening. In Auckland, he says, the organisation leaves something to, be desired, the position of affairs being traceable perhaps to the unsettled state of the labor organisations generally there. In .Wellington the position is much better, and in Dunedin almost perfect. Christchurch, Mr Paul says, is going along nicely. Discussing the organisation in Auckland, he remarked that when labor became so much further divided that each man was a~ party in himself there might be harmony, many of the points of cleavage did not matter at all, • but he believed that labor had to go through the experiences that

Auckland was having, and unquestionably it would come together again and occupy the position and Veld the influence that it should possess. AMERICAN COMPETITION. It was inevitable that at the farewell function to Mr A. P. Campbell, for several years manager in New Zealand of the Massey-Harris Coy., Ltd., reference should be made to American competition with locally manufactured farm implements and machinery. , • Mr A. W. Beaven expressed the hope that if the Americans went "heavy on binders they would give the New Zealand manufacturer a show with drills and cultivators. Mr J. Keir, of Messrs P. and D. Duncan remarked that though the local manufacturers were at .first alarmed by American competition they now recognised that there was room for it. There were certain lines in New Zealand, but certain other lines that must be imported. Mr Campbell, in acknowledging the presentation, said that the men associated, with the implement trade in New Zealand had the highest sense, of honor and manufactured their goods the best of any men in the business in Canada or the United States. When a customer mentioned certain implements manufactured by Christchurch firms he had always said that there were ,Tione better in the world, and that his firm did not intend to compete with the locally manufactured implement. RUGBY FOOTBALL. At last evening's meeting of the Canterbury Rugby Union the secretary, Mr W. G. Garrard, produced a letter received by him since the last meeting of the Union from Mr. D. W. Burbank, manager of the American University football team which recently toured New Zealand, notifying him of the team's safe return home. The writer went on to say:—"Rugby prospects for the coming year are fine; indeed the University of California has opened her Rugby season and we open our season on Thursday next, September Ist, with a big rally attended by the- whole University, where speeches will be made, and red .fire burned, etc. Rugby throughout the State is on the boom. Two more around San Francisco, leaving one out of six yet to come into the fold. The University •of Southern California in Los Angeles has just sent its manager up ,to make' arrangements for a game, • and that is the entering wedge in a bunch of five small colleges around Los Angeles. The High Schools of the central part of the State have formed a League and there will be a series of games for the championship with the two schools above mentioned."