TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 137, 11 May 1934, Page 5

TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.

All vessels were worked at Lyttelton yesterday morning, and were expected to get away last night. There have been no further disputes. The unemployed men accepted work on the employers’ terms. _ At last night’s meeting of the council of the Southland Acclimatisation Society, it was unanimously decided that, having regard to the society’s financial position, the ten per cent, cut in the salaries of the hatchery manager and rangers should be restored. “I think it is generally agreed that the salary cuts should be restored,” remarked Mr S. M. Macalister.

At a meeting of the Oamaru Borough Council last night it was decided to urge the Government to accede to the request of the Dunedin Hospital Board for the immediate erection of an obstetric hospital, and to accept the generous offer of £6OOO from the Dunedin Sayings Bank. The council, which had finished the financial year with a credit balance of £3400, decided to reduce the rates by 3d. This means reductions in the rates since 1928 totalling Is Id, leaving tho average rate at 3s 9d. At the Dominion junior liardcourt championship tourney at Auckland, in the mixed doubles, A. Brown and Miss Cooke (Auckland) beat Matuschka and Miss Beverley (Waikato), 6—5, 3—6, 6—3. An inter-island contest was played, North winning by 18 matches to 3. Applications from Communist and unemployed organisations to hold evening street meetings were refused by the Auckland City Council last night.