LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 99, 23 November 1916, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Weather 'forecast,—••The indications are for variable and strong breezes. The weather appears likely to be cloudy and unsettled with rain following. Barometer unsteady with a falling tendency.—Bates, Wellington. At a Maori shearing shed, where the workers had decided to take tickets and then changed their minds, a meeting was held by the. secretary of the Hawke’s Bay shearers, (so express the aims and objects of unionism, says the “MaOriland ’Worker.” At the close of his remarks, which dwelt upon the benefits coiiferred upon the workers by union action, a venerable old native ganger or boss rose, and after clearing his throat, expressed himself in this way: “Well, I know my shearer he get 25 hob a hundred, f, know my anhine and my ton sea bout get 12 s6d a day. I. don’t know how the way. First i think the boss, he got the big heart. Now I satisfy not so much the big heart as the push by the union. Well, kapni the union. Help the Maori. Yes, Mr Leah, all iriy people take tin l tic,-! ket of' the union. (Joel stive the King.” Tile-‘death’ of M v George liO'mnorj occurred at-Stratford yesterday after much suffering. The deceased was well-known in the .Stratford district, and hkd for some time been farming at Hniroa. He* leaves a widow (who is the daughter 'of Mr I). Wat kin, of ’Hniroa) to mourn his loss.