CHATHAM ISLAND NEWS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 45, 30 March 1914, Page 5

CHATHAM ISLAND NEWS.

From Our Own Correspondent,

Since writing you last mail, Mr Davis, in charge of the wireless station, has been promoted to the Bluff high power station. Mr Davis will be greatly missed from the Chathams, for his zeal and enthusiasm are largely responsible for the success of the weekly paper. The good wishes for the future welfare of Mr and Mrs Davis were expressed by all the islanders. A little Maori boy, named Piraki Pomare, a nephew of the Hon. Dr. Pcmare, met with a painful accident last week. He was playing with an axe, and fell and cut his head open. Mr King, a Christchurch dentist, rendered valuable assistance in dressing and stitching up the wound. We would be very pleasdd if Dr Pomare could spare time to visit the' land of his birth, and endeavour to remedy some of the existing grievances the islanders have against the Government.

The Himitangi arrived on March 25 from Wellington and sailed for Pitt Island to load sheep for Lyttelton. Amongst the returning passengers to the Islands were Mr and Mrs and Miss Launaze, who have been on a visit to the Auckland Exhibition; Mr Wheeler, who is to relieve Mr Davis at the wireless station; and Mr Furness, who came from the Wellington Post and Telegraph Department to inspect the wireless station.

There are many rumours of strike on the island amongst some of the workers. If ever men worked under Arcadian conditions, it is at the Chathams. This may help some learned professor to establish the fact that strikes are a disease in the air similar to influenza and potato blight.