TIMARU ITEMS.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13506, 28 August 1912, Page 3

TIMARU ITEMS.

[United jjPress Association.] " ■- f Timaru, August 27, J£he> Timaru Co-operative Association* ■ havp purchased Manchester and Co.'S' business at Waimate, and two branches. It is the principal proprietary.' ' business in the Waimate district, ajiol the oldest under a. continuous ownership in South Canterbury. Twenty-seven out of thirty odd railway casual employed on the wharves today signed a declaration that they aro members of the Watopside Workers' Union, and prefer to remain so rather than join the Railway Servants' Society.The Timaru Presbytery to-day endorsed the Christchurch . Presbytery's resolution contrary to the- Ne Tome-re1 docree.