LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Northern Advocate, 25 September 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A meeting of the Royal Humane Society in Christchurch decided to award a letter of commendation to Dorothy Oliva Nordstrand, of Onerahi, and a framed certificate to Idris Wynne Parry, of Dargaville. His Worship the Mayor (Mr J. S. Dent) ha s returned from his visit to Auckland, wher e he met Admiral Jellicoe. He states that hoth Mrs Dent and himself were treated with the greatest courtesy by th e Auckland committee. A meeting of settlers and reprcscnta- - tives of local bodies at Dargaville, on Tuesday, emphasised thee necessity for at once urging Government to proceed with the connection to the Main Trunk line. Resolutions were carried urging tho primary importance of vigorously pushing on tho completion of tho main line and pointing out that the population and products of the district, which is at present isolated, render it necessary that early provision be made to connect tho Kaihu section at Dargavillo with the main line. It was further decided to urge upon the Minister for Public Works the importance of taking immediate steps to have an Authorisation Bill in regard to the connecting railway passed during the present session of Parliament. The member for the district, the Hon. ,T. G. Coates, is to be communicated with on the subject.

Reports received from the several districts concerned state that the example of normal output resumption set by the employees at Kiripaka and the two Southern mines near Dunedin, is not being followed by the workers at the Hikurangi, Rotowaro, Extended, Pukemiro, and Waipa mines, where the "go slow" policy is still in vogue. It is asserted in a Dunedin message that the output from the two Taratu mines has been reduced by one-third in consequence of the '' go slow system, and that the management contemplates the closing of one mine unless, the men revert to the usual procedure.

The funeral of the late Mr J. F. Archibald, for a quarter of a century editor of the Sydney "Bulletin," which took place in Waverley cemetery, on September 12th, was largely attended. At the graveside the service was conducted by Father Tyrrell, O.F.M. Father Dwyer, an intimate friend of the deceased, was. also present. "Bulletin" representatives were Messrs W. Maeleod, L. Hopkins, S. H. Prior, J. B. Dolley, E. O'Fen-ell, O. H. Burston, and old contributors to that journal: Messrs B. E. Binns, D. H. Souter, Lionel Lindsay, Bertram Stevens, Henry Lawson, Roderick Quinu, A. G. Stephens, D. K. Inglis, P. E. Quinn, Walter Hegarty, J. Whear Roberts. "Smith's Weekly," of which Mr Archibald was literary editor, was represented by Messrs J. Pearson Meldrum (representing Mr Poynton Smith, . M.L.C.), Claude McKay, R. C. Packer, Bartlett Adamson, W. P. Dalley, Cecil Hart, Stan. Cross, S. H Deamer, C. Haynes, E. H. Brewer, F. Knowles, and C. V. Higham, Mr C. Hobbs, chairman of the Kiripaka branch of the N.Z. Labour Party, was an old typesetting companion of the deceased. They worked together in the days when Archibald was looked upon as the speed limit at a case.