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Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 248, 19 October 1915, Page 8

As a result of a ballot the Lyttelton watersiders decided by 340 to 20 in. favor of work on the wharves being confined from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., but to leave the matter in the hands of members individually. As a result, last night work on the Kauri, with coal from Newcastle, and two other vessels ceased at ten o'clock. The union' also decided that the new hours clause be the basis of a new agreement to be drawn up when the present expires in June.

A lady who rjrently passed through Suva on her way to New Zealand was greatly impressed by the almost total ar.bsence from the town of the. oidinary human male. This' singular condition is the result of the glorious iespouse of Fiji to the call of the" Mothtikml. Wishing to change, a cheque, ih/* lady went to the bank, vhero a sirall'boy of about twelve peered up at hei'from the business side of the counter. "I want to see a clerk or a teller, or something," said the lady vaguely. - While the small boy was convincing her that he was kynself the entire bank st;:if, a flapper of fourteen cr'-so came in with a sbenf of cheques and money to bunk, the day's takings at the principal shop. Thus it is in Suva—now!